Charleston County, South Carolina
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Isle of Palms, SC
Isle of Palms gets about 44 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 12 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 16.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.0. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 27,400 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00013782, 11 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Isle of Palms falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 266 places in South Carolina on this site (12.4 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 265 places in South Carolina on this site (half built by 1985). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 263 places in South Carolina on this site (November 30).
When to clean gutters in Isle of Palms
The first fall frost comes around November 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 13 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Isle of Palms rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Isle of Palms the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.55 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 750 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,510, 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 Isle of Palms
Half the homes in Isle of Palms were built by 1985, 33% 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.
91% of households own their home, and 72% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in South Carolina
South Carolina has no license category for gutters. The Residential Builders Commission registers specialty trades for work over $500, and gutters are not among them; under the statute, repair or improvement of a home costing more than $5,000 is residential builder work. For a large job, ask what license the contractor holds and look it up; for any job, ask for proof of insurance.
Source: S.C. Code, Title 40 Chapter 59. Look-up: S.C. LLR, licensee lookup.
Gutter work in Isle of Palms
With half the homes built by 1985, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: