Coffee County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lakewood Park, TN
Lakewood Park gets about 60 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 winter (December to February), with about 17.4 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.2. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 37,400 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00409434, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Lakewood Park ranks near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (17.2 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 2002). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (November 2).
When to clean gutters in Lakewood Park
The first fall frost comes around November 2 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 1 (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 Lakewood Park rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Lakewood Park the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.52 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,910, 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 Lakewood Park
Half the homes in Lakewood Park were built by 2002, 5% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). With homes this new, the gutters are usually the builder’s originals; keeping them clear matters more than replacing them.
80% of households own their home, and 41% 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 Lakewood Park
With 17.2 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: