Baldwin County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Point Clear, AL
Point Clear gets about 69 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 22 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 23.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 15.3. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 43,000 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00012813, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Point Clear ranks 21st for heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (21.5 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 1993). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 17).
When to clean gutters in Point Clear
The first fall frost comes around November 17 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 10 (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 Point Clear rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Point Clear the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 11.22 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 640 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,280, 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 Point Clear
Half the homes in Point Clear were built by 1993, 34% 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.
71% of households own their home, and 87% of homes are detached houses, 3% 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 Point Clear, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Point Clear
With 21.5 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: