Lauderdale County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Underwood-Petersville, AL
Underwood-Petersville gets about 54 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 16 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 15.0 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.2. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 33,600 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00013896, 11 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Underwood-Petersville ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (15.7 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1979). The first frost here ranks 68th earliest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 3).
When to clean gutters in Underwood-Petersville
The first fall frost comes around November 3 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 27 (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 Underwood-Petersville rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Underwood-Petersville the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.18 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 880 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,760, 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 Underwood-Petersville
Half the homes in Underwood-Petersville were built by 1979, 51% 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.
74% of households own their home, and 75% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. 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 Underwood-Petersville what Alabama requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Underwood-Petersville
With half the homes built by 1979, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: