Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Northwest Harwich, MA
Northwest Harwich gets about 45 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 11 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 12.4 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 8.8. 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 USW00094624, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Northwest Harwich ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 216 places in Massachusetts on this site (10.7 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 217 places in Massachusetts on this site (half built by 1980). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 216 places in Massachusetts on this site (November 3).
When to clean gutters in Northwest Harwich
The first fall frost comes around November 3 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 13 (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 Northwest Harwich rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Northwest Harwich the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.64 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.
The houses in Northwest Harwich
Half the homes in Northwest Harwich were built by 1980, 50% 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.
89% of households own their home, and 87% of homes are detached houses, 7% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Massachusetts
Ask any contractor working in Northwest Harwich what Massachusetts requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Northwest Harwich
With half the homes built by 1980, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: