Grainger County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Blaine, TN
Blaine gets about 49 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 11 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 13.4 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 9.4. That is about 30,100 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00404613, 12 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Blaine sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (11.4 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1998). By first frost it falls 2nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 17).
When to clean gutters in Blaine
The first fall frost comes around October 17 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 24 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Blaine rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Blaine the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.00 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,200 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,400, 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 Blaine
Half the homes in Blaine were built by 1998, 17% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Most houses here are young enough to have their first gutters, so cleanings, guards and small leaks come up more than replacements.
73% of households own their home, and 64% 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 Blaine
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1998, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: