Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lykens, PA
Rain in Lykens adds up to about 51 inches in a normal year, with about 13 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 14.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.4. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 31,500 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00362071, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Lykens falls 167th for heavy-rain days of the 975 places in Pennsylvania on this site (13.3 a year). Its housing ranks 1st oldest by median year built of the 970 places in Pennsylvania on this site (half built by 1938). The first frost here ranks 178th earliest for the first fall frost of the 975 places in Pennsylvania on this site (October 16).
When to clean gutters in Lykens
The first fall frost comes around October 16 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 1 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Lykens rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Lykens the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.31 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,140 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,280, 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 Lykens
Half the homes in Lykens were built by 1938, 93% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). At that age a gutter has seen decades of leaves and storms, and the fascia it hangs from has too. 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.
60% of households own their home, and 57% of homes are detached houses, 23% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania requires home improvement contractors to register with the Attorney General under the Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act. On contracts over $5,000 the deposit may not exceed one third of the price, and the homeowner can cancel within three business days of signing. Ask for the registration number and check it before signing.
Source: Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act, Act 132 of 2008. Look-up: Pennsylvania Attorney General, contractor registration search.
Gutter work in Lykens
With half the homes built by 1938, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: