Salem County, New Jersey
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Carneys Point, NJ
Carneys Point gets about 50 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 14 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 14.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 11.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 31,200 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00079605, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Carneys Point falls 129th for heavy-rain days of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (13.9 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 540 places in New Jersey on this site (half built by 1963). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (November 4).
When to clean gutters in Carneys Point
The first fall frost comes around November 4 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 7 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Carneys Point rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Carneys Point the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.52 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,100 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,210, by the rule in the Copper Development Association’s design handbook. Try your own roof in the gutter and downspout calculator, which starts from this figure.
The houses in Carneys Point
Half the homes in Carneys Point were built by 1963, 79% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). At that age a gutter has seen decades of leaves and storms, and the fascia it hangs from has too. On a house built before 1978, replacing more than 20 square feet of painted fascia or trim falls under the EPA’s lead-safe rule, so ask whether the crew is certified.
62% of households own their home, and 66% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in New Jersey
Before hiring in Carneys Point, ask which New Jersey license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Carneys Point
With half the homes built by 1963, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: