Elmore County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Tallassee, AL
Rain in Tallassee adds up to about 54 inches in a normal year, with about 16 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 14.9 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.0. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 33,500 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00015439, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Tallassee ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (15.9 a year). By house age it falls 16th oldest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1965). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 8).
When to clean gutters in Tallassee
The first fall frost comes around November 8 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 25 (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 Tallassee rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Tallassee the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.32 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 870 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,730, 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 Tallassee
Half the homes in Tallassee were built by 1965, 71% 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.
58% of households own their home, and 88% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Alabama
Ask any contractor working in Tallassee what Alabama requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Tallassee
With half the homes built by 1965, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: