Tompkins County, New York
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lansing, NY
Rain in Lansing adds up to about 38 inches in a normal year, with about 7 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.8. That is about 23,700 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 USC00304174, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Lansing sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 817 places in New York on this site (6.6 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 810 places in New York on this site (half built by 1984). By its first fall frost it sits 30th earliest for the first fall frost of the 817 places in New York on this site (October 3).
When to clean gutters in Lansing
The first fall frost comes around October 3 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 11 (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 Lansing rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Lansing the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.65 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,080 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,170, 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.
Lansing averages about 63 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 Lansing
Half the homes in Lansing were built by 1984, 43% 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.
26% of households own their home, and 23% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in New York
Ask any contractor working in Lansing what New York requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Lansing
With half the homes built by 1984, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: