Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Alexander City, AL
Rain in Alexander City adds up to about 57 inches in a normal year, with about 19 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 16.7 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 10.9. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 35,300 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00010160, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Alexander City ranks 69th for heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (19.2 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1976). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 8).
When to clean gutters in Alexander City
The first fall frost comes around November 8 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 26 (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 Alexander City rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Alexander City the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.28 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 870 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,740, 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 Alexander City
Half the homes in Alexander City were built by 1976, 55% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
62% of households own their home, and 72% 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 Alabama
Ask any contractor working in Alexander City what Alabama requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Alexander City
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: