Washington County, Maryland
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Paramount-Long Meadow, MD
A normal year in Paramount-Long Meadow brings about 36 inches of rain; on roughly 6 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 9.9 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 7.3. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 22,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00093706, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Paramount-Long Meadow ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 329 places in Maryland on this site (6.3 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 329 places in Maryland on this site (half built by 1991). The first frost here ranks 48th earliest for the first fall frost of the 329 places in Maryland on this site (October 28).
When to clean gutters in Paramount-Long Meadow
The first fall frost comes around October 28 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 11 (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 Paramount-Long Meadow rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Paramount-Long Meadow the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.60 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,090 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,180, 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 33 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 Paramount-Long Meadow
Half the homes in Paramount-Long Meadow were built by 1991, 45% 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.
84% of households own their home, and 71% of homes are detached houses, 13% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Maryland
Maryland requires a Maryland Home Improvement Commission license for home improvement work of any amount, gutters included, and a contractor may not take a deposit of more than one third of the contract price (Business Regulation § 8-617). Look the license up before signing, and keep the deposit to one third or less.
Source: Maryland Business Regulation § 8-101. Look-up: Maryland Home Improvement Commission, public query.
Gutter work in Paramount-Long Meadow
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1991, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: