Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Plymouth, MA
Rain in Plymouth adds up to about 53 inches in a normal year, with about 15 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 14.2 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 10.9. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 32,700 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00196486, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Plymouth ranks 13th for heavy-rain days of the 216 places in Massachusetts on this site (14.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 1st oldest by median year built of the 217 places in Massachusetts on this site (half built by 1938). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 216 places in Massachusetts on this site (November 1).
When to clean gutters in Plymouth
The first fall frost comes around November 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 15 (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 Plymouth rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Plymouth the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.02 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,030 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,050, 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 38 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 Plymouth
Half the homes in Plymouth were built by 1938, 77% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
50% of households own their home, and 31% 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 Massachusetts
Ask any contractor working in Plymouth what Massachusetts requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Plymouth
With half the homes built by 1938, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: