Passaic County, New Jersey
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Upper Greenwood Lake, NJ
A normal year in Upper Greenwood Lake brings about 51 inches of rain; on roughly 14 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 14.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 11.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 31,800 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00283516, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Upper Greenwood Lake falls 104th for heavy-rain days of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (14.4 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 540 places in New Jersey on this site (half built by 1971). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (October 23).
When to clean gutters in Upper Greenwood Lake
The first fall frost comes around October 23 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 Upper Greenwood Lake rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Upper Greenwood Lake the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.01 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,030 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,050, 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 Upper Greenwood Lake
Half the homes in Upper Greenwood Lake were built by 1971, 56% 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.
89% of households own their home, and 93% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in New Jersey
Before hiring in Upper Greenwood Lake, ask which New Jersey license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Upper Greenwood Lake
With half the homes built by 1971, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: