City of Holly Springs
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Holly Springs, GA
Metro Atlanta weather, Holly Springs edition: 56 inches of rain in an average year and 16 days with an inch or more. Winter (December to February) is the wettest stretch (15.6 in). Each 1,000 square feet of roof drains 34,500 gallons a year.
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NOAA station USC00091585, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
Holly Springs lands 18th for heavy-rain days of the 76 places on this site (16.2 a year) on inch-plus rain days. Its housing stock is among the newest by median year built of the 76 places on this site (half built by 2007). First frost lands 2nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 76 places on this site (November 4).
Cleanout calendar
Median frost dates for Holly Springs: first in fall about November 4, last in spring about April 2 (NOAA). Wait for the frost and bare branches before the fall cleanout; come back after the yellow spring pollen settles.
More on the timing, and on how the trees over a roof change it: when to clean gutters in metro Atlanta.
Downpours and downspouts
Think of the five minutes when a storm opens up. For Holly Springs, NOAA Atlas 14 puts the ten-year, five-minute burst at 8.17 inches an hour. Using the Copper Development Association rule, that means roughly 880 sq ft of roof per 2×3 downspout, or 1,760 sq ft per 3×4.
Work out your own roof with the gutter size calculator, which uses this figure for Holly Springs.
Holly Springs’s houses
The typical house in Holly Springs dates to 2007, and 5% predate 1980 (Census ACS). The builder’s gutters are still up on most of these houses; they mostly need keeping clear.
Owners occupy 74% of homes; 80% are single-family detached and 6% attached. Townhome owners: your HOA may handle gutters, or set the colors.
Runoff, drains and the county
Holly Springs is an incorporated city, so questions about street drains, ditches and runoff start with the city’s public works office; Cherokee County answers for the unincorporated areas around it. Wherever the water goes, it should leave the downspout well clear of the foundation and the beds along it. Downspouts and drainage
Common calls from Holly Springs
16.2 inch-plus days a year expose clogs and short downspouts fast.