Suffolk County, New York
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Tuckahoe, NY
Tuckahoe gets about 50 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 13.3 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 11.0. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 30,900 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00300889, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
By heavy-rain days, Tuckahoe falls 103rd for heavy-rain days of the 817 places in New York on this site (13.2 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 1990). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 817 places in New York on this site (November 1).
When to clean gutters in Tuckahoe
The first fall frost comes around November 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 19 (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 Tuckahoe rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Tuckahoe the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.54 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 950 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,910, 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 Tuckahoe
Half the homes in Tuckahoe were built by 1990, 30% 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.
68% of households own their home, and 70% of homes are detached houses, 4% 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 Tuckahoe, ask which New York license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Tuckahoe
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: