Wayne County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Clifton, TN
Rain in Clifton adds up to about 62 inches in a normal year, with about 19 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 17.0 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 13.0. That is about 38,300 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 USC00409502, 14 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Clifton sits 10th for heavy-rain days of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (19.4 a year). By house age it falls 22nd oldest by median year built of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1967). By first frost it falls 44th earliest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 24).
When to clean gutters in Clifton
The first fall frost comes around October 24 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 14 (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 Clifton rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Clifton the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.57 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 950 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,900, 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 Clifton
Half the homes in Clifton were built by 1967, 66% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look. 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.
64% of households own their home, and 86% 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 Clifton
With half the homes built by 1967, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: