Limestone County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Decatur, AL
A normal year in Decatur brings about 49 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 14.8 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 10.4. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 30,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00053852, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Decatur falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (13.7 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1977). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 7).
When to clean gutters in Decatur
The first fall frost comes around November 7 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 26 (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 Decatur rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Decatur the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.28 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 870 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,740, 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 Decatur
Half the homes in Decatur were built by 1977, 55% 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.
63% of households own their home, and 70% of homes are detached houses, 6% townhouses. 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 Decatur, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Decatur
With half the homes built by 1977, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: