Harford County, Maryland
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Havre de Grace, MD
Rain in Havre de Grace adds up to about 48 inches in a normal year, with about 13 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.3. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 29,900 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00182060, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Havre de Grace falls 38th for heavy-rain days of the 329 places in Maryland on this site (13.0 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 329 places in Maryland on this site (half built by 1991). The first frost here ranks 83rd earliest for the first fall frost of the 329 places in Maryland on this site (October 30).
When to clean gutters in Havre de Grace
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). 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 Havre de Grace rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Havre de Grace the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.53 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,100 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,210, 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 Havre de Grace
Half the homes in Havre de Grace were built by 1991, 41% 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.
72% of households own their home, and 52% of homes are detached houses, 24% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
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 Havre de Grace
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: