Anderson County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Rocky Top, TN
A normal year in Rocky Top brings about 58 inches of rain; on roughly 16 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 16.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.5. That is about 35,800 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 USC00406619, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Rocky Top sits near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (16.0 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1976). By its first fall frost it sits 72nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 25).
When to clean gutters in Rocky Top
The first fall frost comes around October 25 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 22 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Rocky Top rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Rocky Top the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.38 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,130 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,260, 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 Rocky Top
Half the homes in Rocky Top were built by 1976, 58% 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.
33% of households own their home, and 49% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
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 Rocky Top
With half the homes built by 1976, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: