Hardin County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Olivet, TN
A normal year in Olivet brings about 59 inches of rain; on roughly 19 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 17.6 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.3. That is about 36,700 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 USC00408108, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Olivet sits 19th for heavy-rain days of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (18.7 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 1995). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (November 1).
When to clean gutters in Olivet
The first fall frost comes around November 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 31 (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 Olivet rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Olivet the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.54 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 950 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 Olivet
Half the homes in Olivet were built by 1995, 36% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit.
77% of households own their home, and 78% of homes are detached houses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
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 Olivet
With 18.7 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: