Charleston County, South Carolina
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Mount Pleasant, SC
Mount Pleasant 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. That is about 27,400 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USW00013782, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Mount Pleasant sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 266 places in South Carolina on this site (12.4 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 265 places in South Carolina on this site (half built by 2000). By its first fall frost it sits 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 Mount Pleasant
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). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Mount Pleasant rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Mount Pleasant the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.43 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 760 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,530, 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 Mount Pleasant
Half the homes in Mount Pleasant were built by 2000, 16% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
74% of households own their home, and 65% of homes are detached houses, 11% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
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 Mount Pleasant
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2000, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: