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Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Old Mystic, CT
Old Mystic gets about 49 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 13 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 13.0 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 11.5. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 30,300 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00063207, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Old Mystic ranks near the middle of the 161 places in Connecticut on this site (12.9 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 159 places in Connecticut on this site (half built by 1979). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 161 places in Connecticut on this site (November 2).
When to clean gutters in Old Mystic
The first fall frost comes around November 2 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 8 (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 Old Mystic rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Old Mystic the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.24 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 990 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,990, 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 Old Mystic
Half the homes in Old Mystic were built by 1979, 51% 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.
90% of households own their home, and 91% of homes are detached houses, 1% 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 Old Mystic, ask which Connecticut license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Old Mystic
With half the homes built by 1979, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: