Perry County, Ohio
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Somerset, OH
Rain in Somerset adds up to about 44 inches in a normal year, with about 9 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 12.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 27,500 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00335857, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Somerset falls near the middle of the 687 places in Ohio on this site (8.6 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 147th oldest by median year built of the 687 places in Ohio on this site (half built by 1956). The first frost here ranks 83rd earliest for the first fall frost of the 687 places in Ohio on this site (October 17).
When to clean gutters in Somerset
The first fall frost comes around October 17 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 30 (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 Somerset rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Somerset the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.78 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,060 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,120, 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 Somerset
Half the homes in Somerset were built by 1956, 77% 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.
60% of households own their home, and 74% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Ohio
Before hiring in Somerset, ask which Ohio license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Somerset
With half the homes built by 1956, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: