Campbell County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in La Follette, TN
A normal year in La Follette brings about 58 inches of rain; on roughly 16 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 16.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.5. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 35,800 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00406619, 12 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, La Follette ranks near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (16.0 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 22nd oldest by median year built of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1967). The first frost here ranks 72nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 25).
When to clean gutters in La Follette
The first fall frost comes around October 25 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 22 (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 La Follette rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In La Follette the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.31 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,140 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,280, 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 La Follette
Half the homes in La Follette were built by 1967, 63% 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.
40% of households own their home, and 67% 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 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 La Follette
With half the homes built by 1967, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: