Tompkins County, New York
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in South Hill, NY
South Hill gets about 38 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 7 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.8. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 23,700 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00304174, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, South Hill falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 817 places in New York on this site (6.6 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 810 places in New York on this site (half built by 1985). The first frost here ranks 30th earliest for the first fall frost of the 817 places in New York on this site (October 3).
When to clean gutters in South Hill
The first fall frost comes around October 3 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 11 (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 South Hill rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In South Hill the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.71 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,070 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,150, 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 63 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 South Hill
Half the homes in South Hill were built by 1985, 44% 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.
62% of households own their home, and 67% of homes are detached houses, 9% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in New York
Before hiring in South Hill, ask which New York license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in South Hill
With half the homes built by 1985, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: