Covington County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Opp, AL
Opp gets about 63 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 20 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 17.5 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.9. That is about 38,800 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 USC00012577, 15 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Opp ranks 40th for heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (20.1 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 68th oldest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1974). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 28).
When to clean gutters in Opp
The first fall frost comes around November 28 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 28 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Opp rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Opp the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.98 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 720 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,440, 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 Opp
Half the homes in Opp were built by 1974, 64% 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. 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.
70% of households own their home, and 82% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Alabama
Ask any contractor working in Opp what Alabama requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Opp
With half the homes built by 1974, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: