Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Kensington, CT
Kensington gets about 45 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 fall (September to November), with about 12.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.1. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 27,800 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00054788, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Kensington ranks near the middle of the 161 places in Connecticut on this site (12.2 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 159 places in Connecticut on this site (half built by 1962). The first frost here ranks 30th earliest for the first fall frost of the 161 places in Connecticut on this site (October 16).
When to clean gutters in Kensington
The first fall frost comes around October 16 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 26 (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 Kensington rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Kensington the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.48 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,930, 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.
Kensington averages about 39 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Kensington
Half the homes in Kensington were built by 1962, 81% 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.
83% of households own their home, and 77% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Connecticut
Ask any contractor working in Kensington what Connecticut requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Kensington
With half the homes built by 1962, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: