Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in East Harwich, MA
Rain in East Harwich adds up to about 45 inches in a normal year, with about 11 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 12.4 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 8.8. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 28,000 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00094624, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, East Harwich falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 216 places in Massachusetts on this site (10.7 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 217 places in Massachusetts on this site (half built by 1979). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 216 places in Massachusetts on this site (November 4).
When to clean gutters in East Harwich
The first fall frost comes around November 4 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 13 (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 East Harwich rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In East Harwich the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.58 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,090 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,190, 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 East Harwich
Half the homes in East Harwich were built by 1979, 52% 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.
89% of households own their home, and 99% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Massachusetts
Before hiring in East Harwich, ask which Massachusetts license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in East Harwich
With half the homes built by 1979, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: