Mobile County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Creola, AL
A normal year in Creola brings about 72 inches of rain; on roughly 23 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 22.9 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 15.8. That is about 44,500 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 USC00010583, 13 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Creola sits 5th for heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (22.8 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1980). 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 25).
When to clean gutters in Creola
The first fall frost comes around November 25 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 28 (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 Creola rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Creola the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 11.05 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 650 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,300, 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 Creola
Half the homes in Creola were built by 1980, 50% 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.
85% of households own their home, and 81% 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 Creola what Alabama requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Creola
With half the homes built by 1980, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: