Davidson County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Nashville, TN
Rain in Nashville adds up to about 51 inches in a normal year, with about 14 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 14.3 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.0. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 31,300 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00013897, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Nashville falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (13.6 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1985). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 31).
When to clean gutters in Nashville
The first fall frost comes around October 31 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 1 (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 Nashville rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Nashville the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.84 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,050 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,110, 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 Nashville
Half the homes in Nashville were built by 1985, 42% 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.
53% of households own their home, and 50% of homes are detached houses, 9% townhouses. 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 Nashville
With half the homes built by 1985, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: