Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Dadeville, AL
A normal year in Dadeville brings about 53 inches of rain; on roughly 14 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 15.3 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 10.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 32,800 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00012124, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Dadeville falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (14.2 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1976). The first frost here ranks 1st earliest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (October 27).
When to clean gutters in Dadeville
The first fall frost comes around October 27 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 11 (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 Dadeville rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Dadeville the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.22 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 880 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,750, 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 Dadeville
Half the homes in Dadeville were built by 1976, 60% 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.
68% of households own their home, and 79% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Alabama
Before hiring in Dadeville, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Dadeville
With half the homes built by 1976, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: