Sullivan County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Colonial Heights, TN
Rain in Colonial Heights adds up to about 45 inches in a normal year, with about 9 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 12.6 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 8.6. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 27,900 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00404858, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Colonial Heights falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (9.4 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 48th oldest by median year built of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1972). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 29).
When to clean gutters in Colonial Heights
The first fall frost comes around October 29 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 9 (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 Colonial Heights rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Colonial Heights the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.52 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,300 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,610, 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 Colonial Heights
Half the homes in Colonial Heights were built by 1972, 63% 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. 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.
88% of households own their home, and 93% 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 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 Colonial Heights
With half the homes built by 1972, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: