Baldwin County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Summerdale, AL
Summerdale 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 23.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 15.0. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 42,800 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00016988, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Summerdale falls 14th for heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (21.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 2002). 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 Summerdale
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). 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 Summerdale rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Summerdale the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 11.21 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 Summerdale
Half the homes in Summerdale were built by 2002, 23% 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 91% 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 Alabama
Before hiring in Summerdale, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Summerdale
With 21.9 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: