Nassau County, New York
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Port Washington, NY
Rain in Port Washington adds up to about 45 inches in a normal year, with about 11 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.8. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 28,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00305377, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Port Washington ranks near the middle of the 817 places in New York on this site (11.0 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 810 places in New York on this site (half built by 1952). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 817 places in New York on this site (November 12).
When to clean gutters in Port Washington
The first fall frost comes around November 12 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 2 (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 Port Washington rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Port Washington the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.72 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 930 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,870, 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 Port Washington
Half the homes in Port Washington were built by 1952, 82% 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.
78% of households own their home, and 70% 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
Ask any contractor working in Port Washington what New York requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Port Washington
With half the homes built by 1952, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: