Bergen County, New Jersey
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Old Tappan, NJ
Rain in Old Tappan adds up to about 47 inches in a normal year, with about 13 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.9 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.7. That is about 29,300 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00289832, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Old Tappan sits near the middle of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (13.1 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 540 places in New Jersey on this site (half built by 1986). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (October 26).
When to clean gutters in Old Tappan
The first fall frost comes around October 26 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 20 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Old Tappan rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Old Tappan the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.49 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,920, 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.
Old Tappan averages about 33 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 Old Tappan
Half the homes in Old Tappan were built by 1986, 45% 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. 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 71% of homes are detached houses, 23% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in New Jersey
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Old Tappan which license or registration they hold in New Jersey, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Old Tappan
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1986, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: