City of Stockbridge
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Stockbridge, GA
Metro Atlanta weather, Stockbridge edition: 53 inches of rain in an average year and 15 days with an inch or more. Winter (December to February) is the wettest stretch (14.8 in). A modest 1,000-square-foot roof here sends 32,800 gallons a year down its downspouts.
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NOAA station USC00094700, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
Inch-plus rain days put Stockbridge near the middle of the 76 places on this site (15.1 a year). Its housing stock is near the middle of the 76 places on this site (half built by 1998). Frost timing: among the latest for the first fall frost of the 76 places on this site (November 12).
Cleanout calendar
Median frost dates for Stockbridge: first in fall about November 12, last in spring about March 25 (NOAA). Fall cleanout after the frost, spring cleanout after the pollen: two visits cover most Atlanta yards with trees.
More on the timing, and on how the trees over a roof change it: when to clean gutters in metro Atlanta.
Downpours and downspouts
Atlanta thunderstorms are the real test. For Stockbridge, NOAA Atlas 14 puts the ten-year, five-minute burst at 7.86 inches an hour. Using the Copper Development Association rule, that means roughly 920 sq ft of roof per 2×3 downspout, or 1,830 sq ft per 3×4.
Work out your own roof with the gutter size calculator, which uses this figure for Stockbridge.
Stockbridge’s houses
The typical house in Stockbridge dates to 1998, and 9% predate 1980 (Census ACS). Builder gutters, mostly in fine shape: cleaning and guards are the common jobs.
Owners occupy 54% of homes; 65% are single-family detached and 2% attached. Townhome owners: your HOA may handle gutters, or set the colors.
Runoff, drains and the county
Stockbridge is an incorporated city, so questions about street drains, ditches and runoff start with the city’s public works office; Henry County answers for the unincorporated areas around it. A downspout that empties against the house undoes the gutter’s work; extend it or carry it away. Downspouts and drainage
Common calls from Stockbridge
Mostly newer houses (median 1998): cleanouts, guards and small fixes lead.