Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in New London, CT
Rain in New London adds up to about 39 inches in a normal year, with about 10 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 10.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.0. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 24,400 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00014707, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
By heavy-rain days, New London falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 161 places in Connecticut on this site (9.9 a year). Its housing ranks 9th oldest by median year built of the 159 places in Connecticut on this site (half built by 1947). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 161 places in Connecticut on this site (October 28).
When to clean gutters in New London
The first fall frost comes around October 28 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 16 (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 New London rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In New London the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.18 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,000 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,010, 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 New London
Half the homes in New London were built by 1947, 85% 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.
40% of households own their home, and 33% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Connecticut
Before hiring in New London, ask which Connecticut license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in New London
With half the homes built by 1947, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: