Chesapeake city, Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Chesapeake, VA
Chesapeake gets about 54 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 16 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 16.4 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 11.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 33,500 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00448837, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Chesapeake ranks 2nd for heavy-rain days of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (16.1 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 373 places in Virginia on this site (half built by 1989). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (November 18).
When to clean gutters in Chesapeake
The first fall frost comes around November 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 23 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Chesapeake rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Chesapeake the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.11 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 890 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,780, 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 Chesapeake
Half the homes in Chesapeake were built by 1989, 32% 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.
74% of households own their home, and 67% of homes are detached houses, 13% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Virginia
Virginia requires a Board for Contractors license for any contract over $1,000; gutter work on a home falls under the home improvement specialty (HIC) or the residential building classification. Ask for the license number and class, and look it up before signing.
Source: Code of Virginia § 54.1-1100. Look-up: Virginia DPOR, license lookup.
Gutter work in Chesapeake
With 16.1 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: