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Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Ontario, NY
Ontario gets about 39 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 5 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.3. 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 USC00309049, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Ontario falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 817 places in New York on this site (5.4 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 810 places in New York on this site (half built by 1958). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 817 places in New York on this site (October 20).
When to clean gutters in Ontario
The first fall frost comes around October 20 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 Ontario rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Ontario the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.01 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,200 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,400, 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.
Ontario averages about 86 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 Ontario
Half the homes in Ontario were built by 1958, 72% 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.
56% of households own their home, and 54% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in New York
Before hiring in Ontario, ask which New York license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Ontario
With half the homes built by 1958, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: