Houston County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Cottonwood, AL
Rain in Cottonwood adds up to about 51 inches in a normal year, with about 15 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 15.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 10.8. That is about 31,700 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 USW00003818, 17 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Cottonwood sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (14.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 51st oldest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1972). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 27).
When to clean gutters in Cottonwood
The first fall frost comes around November 27 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 1 (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 Cottonwood rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Cottonwood the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.52 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 760 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,510, 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 Cottonwood
Half the homes in Cottonwood were built by 1972, 71% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
65% of households own their home, and 65% of homes are detached houses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Alabama
Ask any contractor working in Cottonwood what Alabama requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Cottonwood
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: