Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Scituate, MA
Scituate gets about 52 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 14 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 13.8 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 11.4. That is about 32,400 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00193624, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Scituate ranks 46th for heavy-rain days of the 216 places in Massachusetts on this site (14.0 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 217 places in Massachusetts on this site (half built by 1962). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 216 places in Massachusetts on this site (October 22).
When to clean gutters in Scituate
The first fall frost comes around October 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 25 (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 Scituate rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Scituate the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.03 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,020 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 51 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 Scituate
Half the homes in Scituate were built by 1962, 66% 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.
84% of households own their home, and 75% of homes are detached houses, 8% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Massachusetts
Ask any contractor working in Scituate what Massachusetts requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Scituate
With half the homes built by 1962, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: