Houston County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Kinsey, AL
Kinsey gets about 57 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 17 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 17.0 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.6. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 35,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00013761, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Kinsey ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (16.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1987). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 24).
When to clean gutters in Kinsey
The first fall frost comes around November 24 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 5 (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 Kinsey rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Kinsey the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.70 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 740 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,480, 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 Kinsey
Half the homes in Kinsey were built by 1987, 41% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
76% of households own their home, and 84% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Alabama
Ask any contractor working in Kinsey what Alabama requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Kinsey
With 16.9 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: