Lee County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Phenix City, AL
A normal year in Phenix City brings about 49 inches of rain; on roughly 15 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 13.5 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 10.1. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 30,300 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00093842, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Phenix City ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (14.5 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1983). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 23).
When to clean gutters in Phenix City
The first fall frost comes around November 23 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 5 (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 Phenix City rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Phenix City the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.26 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 870 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,740, 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 Phenix City
Half the homes in Phenix City were built by 1983, 47% 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.
51% of households own their home, and 67% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Alabama
Before hiring in Phenix City, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Phenix City
With half the homes built by 1983, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: