Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Connecticut
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Durham, CT
Durham gets about 45 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 12 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 12.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.1. That is about 27,800 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USW00054788, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Durham sits near the middle of the 161 places in Connecticut on this site (12.2 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 159 places in Connecticut on this site (half built by 1976). By its first fall frost it sits 30th earliest for the first fall frost of the 161 places in Connecticut on this site (October 16).
When to clean gutters in Durham
The first fall frost comes around October 16 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 26 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Durham rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Durham the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.50 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,920, 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 Durham
Half the homes in Durham were built by 1976, 60% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
88% of households own their home, and 94% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Connecticut
Ask any contractor working in Durham what Connecticut requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Durham
With half the homes built by 1976, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: