Shelby County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Collierville, TN
A normal year in Collierville brings about 57 inches of rain; on roughly 18 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 17.0 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 35,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00401950, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Collierville sits 54th for heavy-rain days of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (17.7 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1997). By first frost it falls among the latest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (November 3).
When to clean gutters in Collierville
The first fall frost comes around November 3 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 29 (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 Collierville rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Collierville the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.32 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 980 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,970, 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 Collierville
Half the homes in Collierville were built by 1997, 12% 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.
81% of households own their home, and 81% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. 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 Collierville
With 17.7 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: