Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Storrs, CT
Storrs gets about 49 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 13 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 13.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 11.1. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 30,500 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00068138, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Storrs ranks near the middle of the 161 places in Connecticut on this site (12.6 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 159 places in Connecticut on this site (half built by 1990). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 161 places in Connecticut on this site (October 22).
When to clean gutters in Storrs
The first fall frost comes around October 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 19 (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 Storrs rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Storrs the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.07 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 2,040, 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.
Storrs 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 Storrs
Half the homes in Storrs were built by 1990, 43% 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.
30% of households own their home, and 27% of homes are detached houses, 7% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Connecticut
Before hiring in Storrs, ask which Connecticut license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Storrs
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1990, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: