Montgomery County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Pike Road, AL
Rain in Pike Road adds up to about 52 inches in a normal year, with about 15 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 15.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 10.9. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 32,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00015553, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Pike Road ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (14.7 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 2007). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 18).
When to clean gutters in Pike Road
The first fall frost comes around November 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 4 (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 Pike Road rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Pike Road the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.50 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 850 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,690, 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 Pike Road
Half the homes in Pike Road were built by 2007, 4% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). With homes this new, the gutters are usually the builder’s originals; keeping them clear matters more than replacing them.
86% of households own their home, and 85% 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 Pike Road, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Pike Road
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2007, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: