Robertson County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Portland, TN
A normal year in Portland brings about 54 inches of rain; on roughly 15 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 16.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 33,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00407359, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Portland falls near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (14.7 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1995). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (November 1).
When to clean gutters in Portland
The first fall frost comes around November 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 5 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Portland rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Portland the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.79 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,060 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,120, 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 Portland
Half the homes in Portland were built by 1995, 22% 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.
64% of households own their home, and 71% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
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 Portland
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1995, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: