Virginia Beach city, Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Virginia Beach, VA
A normal year in Virginia Beach brings about 47 inches of rain; on roughly 12 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 15.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.3. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 28,900 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00013769, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Virginia Beach falls 90th for heavy-rain days of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (12.1 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 373 places in Virginia on this site (half built by 1984). By first frost it falls among the latest for the first fall frost of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (November 12).
When to clean gutters in Virginia Beach
The first fall frost comes around November 12 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 29 (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 Virginia Beach rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Virginia Beach the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.49 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,920, 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 Virginia Beach
Half the homes in Virginia Beach were built by 1984, 40% 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.
65% of households own their home, and 55% of homes are detached houses, 18% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Virginia
Virginia requires a Board for Contractors license for any contract over $1,000; gutter work on a home falls under the home improvement specialty (HIC) or the residential building classification. Ask for the license number and class, and look it up before signing.
Source: Code of Virginia § 54.1-1100. Look-up: Virginia DPOR, license lookup.
Gutter work in Virginia Beach
With half the homes built by 1984, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: