Oakland County, Michigan
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Novi, MI
A normal year in Novi brings about 33 inches of rain; on roughly 5 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 9.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 20,500 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00202691, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Novi falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 405 places in Michigan on this site (5.0 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 406 places in Michigan on this site (half built by 1992). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 406 places in Michigan on this site (October 17).
When to clean gutters in Novi
The first fall frost comes around October 17 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 Novi rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Novi the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.55 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,100 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,200, 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 36 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 Novi
Half the homes in Novi were built by 1992, 28% 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.
68% of households own their home, and 51% of homes are detached houses, 12% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Michigan
Before hiring in Novi, ask which Michigan license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Novi
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1992, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: