Shelby County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Alabaster, AL
Alabaster gets about 56 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 17 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 16.2 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.2. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 34,800 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00053864, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Alabaster ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (16.6 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1994). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 16).
When to clean gutters in Alabaster
The first fall frost comes around November 16 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 12 (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 Alabaster rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Alabaster the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.36 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 860 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,720, 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 Alabaster
Half the homes in Alabaster were built by 1994, 23% 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.
86% of households own their home, and 86% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Alabama
Before hiring in Alabaster, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Alabaster
With 16.6 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: