Grundy County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Altamont, TN
Rain in Altamont adds up to about 63 inches in a normal year, with about 20 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 17.7 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.5. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 39,200 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00401887, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Altamont falls 7th for heavy-rain days of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (19.7 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1990). By first frost it falls 15th earliest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 20).
When to clean gutters in Altamont
The first fall frost comes around October 20 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 21 (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 Altamont rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Altamont the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.78 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 930 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,850, 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 Altamont
Half the homes in Altamont were built by 1990, 29% 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.
92% of households own their home, and 53% of homes are detached houses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
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 Altamont
With 19.7 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: