Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Exeter, NH
A normal year in Exeter brings about 53 inches of rain; on roughly 15 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 14.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 12.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 32,600 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00276070, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Exeter falls 2nd for heavy-rain days of the 60 places in New Hampshire on this site (15.3 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 60 places in New Hampshire on this site (half built by 1968). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 60 places in New Hampshire on this site (October 8).
When to clean gutters in Exeter
The first fall frost comes around October 8 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 4 (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 Exeter rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Exeter the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.67 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,080 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,160, 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.
Exeter averages about 63 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Exeter
Half the homes in Exeter were built by 1968, 66% 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.
60% of households own their home, and 36% of homes are detached houses, 5% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in New Hampshire
Before hiring in Exeter, ask which New Hampshire license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Exeter
With half the homes built by 1968, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: