Sullivan County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Walnut Hill, TN
Walnut Hill gets about 44 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 9 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 12.7 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 8.5. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 27,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00013877, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Walnut Hill sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (9.1 a year). By house age it falls 35th oldest by median year built of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1970). By first frost it falls 44th earliest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 24).
When to clean gutters in Walnut Hill
The first fall frost comes around October 24 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 16 (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 Walnut Hill rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Walnut Hill the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.44 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,320 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,650, 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 Walnut Hill
Half the homes in Walnut Hill were built by 1970, 76% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look. 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.
96% of households own their home, and 92% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
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 Walnut Hill
With half the homes built by 1970, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: