Androscoggin County, Maine
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lewiston, ME
Rain in Lewiston adds up to about 45 inches in a normal year, with about 11 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 12.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.7. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 28,000 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00174566, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Lewiston ranks near the middle of the 87 places in Maine on this site (10.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 87 places in Maine on this site (half built by 1957). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 87 places in Maine on this site (October 19).
When to clean gutters in Lewiston
The first fall frost comes around October 19 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 25 (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 Lewiston rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Lewiston the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.50 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,110 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,220, 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.
With about 65 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
The houses in Lewiston
Half the homes in Lewiston were built by 1957, 80% 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.
50% of households own their home, and 43% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Maine
Ask any contractor working in Lewiston what Maine requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Lewiston
With half the homes built by 1957, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: