Hudson County, New Jersey
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Jersey City, NJ
A normal year in Jersey City brings about 50 inches of rain; on roughly 15 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 14.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 11.5. That is about 31,300 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00283704, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Jersey City sits 2nd for heavy-rain days of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (15.3 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 540 places in New Jersey on this site (half built by 1970). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (November 6).
When to clean gutters in Jersey City
The first fall frost comes around November 6 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 4 (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 Jersey City rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Jersey City the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.35 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,130 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,270, 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 Jersey City
Half the homes in Jersey City were built by 1970, 58% 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.
29% of households own their home, and 7% of homes are detached houses, 7% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in New Jersey
Ask any contractor working in Jersey City what New Jersey requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Jersey City
With half the homes built by 1970, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: