Summit County, Ohio
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Macedonia, OH
Macedonia gets about 33 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 5 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 9.9 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.3. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 20,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00004853, 17 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Macedonia falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 687 places in Ohio on this site (4.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 687 places in Ohio on this site (half built by 1991). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 687 places in Ohio on this site (October 21).
When to clean gutters in Macedonia
The first fall frost comes around October 21 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 30 (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 Macedonia rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Macedonia the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.32 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.
Macedonia averages about 45 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 Macedonia
Half the homes in Macedonia were built by 1991, 37% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look.
90% of households own their home, and 83% of homes are detached houses, 10% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Ohio
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Macedonia which license or registration they hold in Ohio, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Macedonia
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1991, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: