Berkeley County, South Carolina
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Charleston, SC
A normal year in Charleston brings about 44 inches of rain; on roughly 12 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 16.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.0. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 27,400 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00013782, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Charleston ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 266 places in South Carolina on this site (12.4 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 265 places in South Carolina on this site (half built by 1994).
When to clean gutters in Charleston
Frost is rare in Charleston, and in many years there is none (NOAA normals). With no hard freeze to strip the trees, the fall cleaning follows the leaf drop itself; book it once the trees over the roof are bare, and plan a second visit in spring.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Charleston rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Charleston the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.22 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 780 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,560, 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 Charleston
Half the homes in Charleston were built by 1994, 35% 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.
56% of households own their home, and 48% of homes are detached houses, 7% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in South Carolina
South Carolina has no license category for gutters. The Residential Builders Commission registers specialty trades for work over $500, and gutters are not among them; under the statute, repair or improvement of a home costing more than $5,000 is residential builder work. For a large job, ask what license the contractor holds and look it up; for any job, ask for proof of insurance.
Source: S.C. Code, Title 40 Chapter 59. Look-up: S.C. LLR, licensee lookup.
Gutter work in Charleston
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1994, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: