Strafford County, New Hampshire
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Somersworth, NH
Rain in Somersworth adds up to about 41 inches in a normal year, with about 10 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 11.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.1. That is about 25,600 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 USW00054791, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Somersworth sits near the middle of the 60 places in New Hampshire on this site (9.8 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 60 places in New Hampshire on this site (half built by 1970). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 60 places in New Hampshire on this site (October 9).
When to clean gutters in Somersworth
The first fall frost comes around October 9 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 30 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Somersworth rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Somersworth the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.68 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,080 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,160, 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.
Somersworth averages about 39 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Somersworth
Half the homes in Somersworth were built by 1970, 64% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look. 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.
62% of households own their home, and 48% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in New Hampshire
Ask any contractor working in Somersworth what New Hampshire requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Somersworth
With half the homes built by 1970, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: