Hampton County, South Carolina
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Hampton, SC
Hampton gets about 45 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 14 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 16.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.5. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 28,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00383906, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Hampton ranks near the middle of the 266 places in South Carolina on this site (13.8 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 265 places in South Carolina on this site (half built by 1991). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 263 places in South Carolina on this site (November 26).
When to clean gutters in Hampton
The first fall frost comes around November 26 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 6 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Hampton rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Hampton the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.47 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 850 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,700, 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 Hampton
Half the homes in Hampton were built by 1991, 41% 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.
70% of households own their home, and 69% 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 South Carolina
South Carolina has no license category for gutters. The Residential Builders Commission registers specialty trades for work over $500, and gutters are not among them; under the statute, repair or improvement of a home costing more than $5,000 is residential builder work. For a large job, ask what license the contractor holds and look it up; for any job, ask for proof of insurance.
Source: S.C. Code, Title 40 Chapter 59. Look-up: S.C. LLR, licensee lookup.
Gutter work in Hampton
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1991, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: