Blount County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Alcoa, TN
A normal year in Alcoa brings about 52 inches of rain; on roughly 14 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 14.6 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 10.5. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 32,200 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00013891, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Alcoa falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (14.3 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1976). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (November 2).
When to clean gutters in Alcoa
The first fall frost comes around November 2 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 1 (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 Alcoa rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Alcoa the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.94 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,210 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,420, 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 Alcoa
Half the homes in Alcoa were built by 1976, 55% 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 68% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Tennessee
Tennessee requires a home improvement license for residential projects from $3,000 to $24,999 only in the counties that adopted the law: Bradley, Davidson, Hamilton, Haywood, Knox, Marion, Robertson, Rutherford and Shelby. From $25,000 a contractor license is required statewide. In those nine counties, ask for the home improvement license number on any job of $3,000 or more and check it.
Source: Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Home Improvement. Look-up: Tennessee license verification.
Gutter work in Alcoa
With half the homes built by 1976, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: