Prince William County, Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Haymarket, VA
Haymarket gets about 46 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 11 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 12.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.3. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 28,600 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00448396, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Haymarket sits near the middle of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (11.1 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 373 places in Virginia on this site (half built by 1997). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (October 27).
When to clean gutters in Haymarket
The first fall frost comes around October 27 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 12 (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 Haymarket rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Haymarket the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.60 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 Haymarket
Half the homes in Haymarket were built by 1997, 6% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Most houses here are young enough to have their first gutters, so cleanings, guards and small leaks come up more than replacements.
93% of households own their home, and 68% of homes are detached houses, 29% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Virginia
Virginia requires a Board for Contractors license for any contract over $1,000; gutter work on a home falls under the home improvement specialty (HIC) or the residential building classification. Ask for the license number and class, and look it up before signing.
Source: Code of Virginia § 54.1-1100. Look-up: Virginia DPOR, license lookup.
Gutter work in Haymarket
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1997, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: