Harford County, Maryland
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Edgewood, MD
A normal year in Edgewood brings about 48 inches of rain; on roughly 13 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.3. That is about 29,900 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 USC00182060, 18 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Edgewood sits 38th for heavy-rain days of the 329 places in Maryland on this site (13.0 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 329 places in Maryland on this site (half built by 1982). By its first fall frost it sits 83rd earliest for the first fall frost of the 329 places in Maryland on this site (October 30).
When to clean gutters in Edgewood
The first fall frost comes around October 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 10 (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 Edgewood rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Edgewood the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.59 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). 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 Edgewood
Half the homes in Edgewood were built by 1982, 45% 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.
68% of households own their home, and 42% of homes are detached houses, 33% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Maryland
Maryland requires a Maryland Home Improvement Commission license for home improvement work of any amount, gutters included, and a contractor may not take a deposit of more than one third of the contract price (Business Regulation § 8-617). Look the license up before signing, and keep the deposit to one third or less.
Source: Maryland Business Regulation § 8-101. Look-up: Maryland Home Improvement Commission, public query.
Gutter work in Edgewood
With half the homes built by 1982, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: