Kent County, Delaware
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Felton, DE
Felton gets about 48 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 summer (June to August), with about 13.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.5. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 29,500 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00072730, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Felton falls near the middle of the 53 places in Delaware on this site (12.3 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 52 places in Delaware on this site (half built by 1995). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 53 places in Delaware on this site (November 4).
When to clean gutters in Felton
The first fall frost comes around November 4 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 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 Felton rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Felton the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.62 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 2,180, 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 Felton
Half the homes in Felton were built by 1995, 28% 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.
66% of households own their home, and 74% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Delaware
Before hiring in Felton, ask which Delaware license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Felton
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1995, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: