Marion County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Guin, AL
Rain in Guin adds up to about 64 inches in a normal year, with about 20 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 18.9 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.8. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 39,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00018998, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Guin falls 36th for heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (20.4 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1976). By first frost it falls 35th earliest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 1).
When to clean gutters in Guin
The first fall frost comes around November 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 4 (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 Guin rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Guin the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.12 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 890 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,770, 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 Guin
Half the homes in Guin were built by 1976, 64% 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.
69% of households own their home, and 67% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Alabama
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Guin which license or registration they hold in Alabama, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Guin
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: