Jefferson County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in New Market, TN
A normal year in New Market brings about 49 inches of rain; on roughly 11 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 13.4 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 9.4. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 30,100 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00404613, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, New Market falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (11.4 a year). By house age it falls 74th oldest by median year built of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1975). By first frost it falls 2nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 17).
When to clean gutters in New Market
The first fall frost comes around October 17 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 24 (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 New Market rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In New Market the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.96 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,210 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,420, 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 New Market
Half the homes in New Market were built by 1975, 59% 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.
75% of households own their home, and 83% of homes are detached houses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
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 New Market
With half the homes built by 1975, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: