Williamson County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Franklin, TN
Franklin gets about 54 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 15 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 15.7 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.3. That is about 33,300 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 USC00403280, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Franklin sits near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (15.2 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 2001). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 31).
When to clean gutters in Franklin
The first fall frost comes around October 31 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 3 (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 Franklin rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Franklin the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.24 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 990 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,990, 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 Franklin
Half the homes in Franklin were built by 2001, 13% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
64% of households own their home, and 58% of homes are detached houses, 8% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Tennessee
Tennessee requires a home improvement license for residential projects from $3,000 to $24,999 only in the counties that adopted the law: Bradley, Davidson, Hamilton, Haywood, Knox, Marion, Robertson, Rutherford and Shelby. From $25,000 a contractor license is required statewide. In those nine counties, ask for the home improvement license number on any job of $3,000 or more and check it.
Source: Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Home Improvement. Look-up: Tennessee license verification.
Gutter work in Franklin
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2001, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: