Georgetown County, South Carolina
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Murrells Inlet, SC
A normal year in Murrells Inlet brings about 55 inches of rain; on roughly 18 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 17.1 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 11.3. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 34,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00381093, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Murrells Inlet falls 8th for heavy-rain days of the 266 places in South Carolina on this site (17.5 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 265 places in South Carolina on this site (half built by 2001). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 263 places in South Carolina on this site (November 18).
When to clean gutters in Murrells Inlet
The first fall frost comes around November 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 18 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Murrells Inlet rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Murrells Inlet the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.24 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 780 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,560, 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 Murrells Inlet
Half the homes in Murrells Inlet were built by 2001, 10% 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.
85% of households own their home, and 57% of homes are detached houses, 7% 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 Murrells Inlet
With 17.5 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: