Bergen County, New Jersey
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in River Edge, NJ
A normal year in River Edge brings about 47 inches of rain; on roughly 12 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 29,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00286146, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, River Edge ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (11.8 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 78th oldest by median year built of the 540 places in New Jersey on this site (half built by 1954). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (November 4).
When to clean gutters in River Edge
The first fall frost comes around November 4 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 3 (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 River Edge rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In River Edge the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.49 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,110 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,220, 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 River Edge
Half the homes in River Edge were built by 1954, 84% 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.
76% of households own their home, and 73% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in New Jersey
Before hiring in River Edge, ask which New Jersey license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in River Edge
With half the homes built by 1954, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: