Salem County, New Jersey
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Salem, NJ
A normal year in Salem brings about 45 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 9.9. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 28,100 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00013781, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Salem falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (11.8 a year). Its housing ranks 27th oldest by median year built of the 540 places in New Jersey on this site (half built by 1943). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (November 1).
When to clean gutters in Salem
The first fall frost comes around November 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 7 (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 Salem rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Salem 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 Salem
Half the homes in Salem were built by 1943, 88% 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.
35% of households own their home, and 35% of homes are detached houses, 22% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in New Jersey
Before hiring in Salem, ask which New Jersey license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Salem
With half the homes built by 1943, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: