man o man… Do I love gutter cleaning season…
The phone hasnt stopped ringing all day, the temperatures are nice and the schedule is full.
How is your gutter season going?
Our weather is warmer than normal so the leaves haven’t dropped yet. So December should be off the hook.
Gutters are literally 33% of our work, this month.
(looking back, we’re typically at 5% over the summertime)
We actually have a lot of stragglers right now. Maybe it’s the warm weather, but many of our regulars are in a “holding pattern.”
Long story, short- I expect the number to go UP! 
Our gutter season is almost drawing to an end…maybe two weeks left and then everything will be frozen.
CRAZY BUSY!!! been doin more gutter estimates/gutter cleaning than windows…
What does one need to add gutter cleaning.
Where should i advertise?
Doing 7 this week while the weather still allows it. Suppose to stay mid 40s through the weekend
I just pulled off a first for myself today. With two guys I did 16 townhouses at a private community. Also spent a couple hours cleaning one roof with black marks. It was 5:20 when we finished. Could barely see. My back is destroyed! But the money was pretty good.
Have two gutter jobs mixed in tomorrow, one on Thursday and one or two more on Friday.
How do you market gutter cleaning?
ive only done about 3 gutter jobs in 2012, the windows keep rolling in so fast theres no time to push it.
Doing a $400 gutter cleaning job this afternoon…one house
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I haven’t advertised it either this year. I’ve only done 2 jobs, but still busy with windows. I have even lost a couple jobs I couldn’t squeeze in the schedule. I hate that, but I don’t want to hire anyone this late in the season. Last year I advertised gutters more and gots lots more jobs. Just for the record, I hate doing gutters. Messy dirty work. I like the money though.
What form of advertising are you using?
Mostly direct mail and coupon type advertising mailed to large numbers of potential clients.
I’m getting most leads through internet…a little direct mail…and a TON of repeat work.
We are over half way done with our gutter cleaning. We have been up on 45 roofs so far.
And we have another 15-20 to go.
I am a little nervous because the gutters are starting to freeze up pretty good. Yesterday was
a high of 26 and today’s high will be 35 if we are lucky. The gutters won’t thaw back out at
those temps. We had a good rain about 4 days ago and now ice cold temps…not a good receipe
for gutter cleaning!
Question for those of you who rock a lot of gutters this time of year. Typically are your clients upset
if you do not get to their gutters before the final freeze?? I am thinking I might have to wait with a
hand full of my commercial accounts until first thing next spring.
Chris…what do you do when this happens?? Or do you get all the gutters done in time every fall?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I don’t enjoy cleaning gutters but it is $ in the bank
Gutters are different than window cleaning, because customers don’t NEED their windows cleaned.
Meaning, I would not suggest waiting until spring. Even if you have to get up there with an ice pick.
Once you’ve committed… it’s “on you.”
I’m as busy as I can handle.
I watch the forecast two weeks in advance and watch our workload carefully. If I do not feel that we can successfully get this done for the customer before everything freezes then I tell them that we are too booked up. Basically do not over commit with gutter cleanings because Mother Nature will show you up. Also, try and kock out as many possible per day, even weekends to get it done.
we had to wait today until almost noon to start on gutters. you couldent have said it better brotha
