Coffee County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Elba, AL
A normal year in Elba brings about 63 inches of rain; on roughly 20 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 17.5 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.9. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 38,800 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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By heavy-rain days, Elba falls 40th for heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (20.1 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 27th oldest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1968). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 21).
When to clean gutters in Elba
The first fall frost comes around November 21 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 9 (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 Elba rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Elba the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.65 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 750 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,490, 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 Elba
Half the homes in Elba were built by 1968, 77% 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 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 Elba, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Elba
With half the homes built by 1968, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: