So been trying to add on gutter clean outs and so far here in NC it’s been miserable / should have declined. All have been full of such heavy muck/mud and everything else that it all had to be hand scooped every 6-12 inches. Issue is that people want to pay 150 and it seems like a pass. This is several inches thick and blowing out isn’t an option.
How many of you run into this and the only option is to pass? I really only want to do it as an add on to not lose business to another “all in one” company.
I have a minimum to show and try to include gutter cleaning as an addon, not stand alone because it’s not worth it to me. If they want gutters by themselves I charge about double what you are charging. If they don’t want to pay, they can do it themselves and I don’t get dirty. Win/win
We charge $1.50 liner foot. We tell them we will drop down to $1 if it’s really not that bad after we are done (maybe weird to do that) but no one wants to pay that price either. Had ten bids this year for gutter clean out and not one took it. Not mad at all about it.
I bought out a company that was heavy into gutter cleaning 5 years ago. We kept the service for 1 year before I pulled the plug.
Unless you have / are able to build route density, the margins are terrible. Its not like parking outside of a house for a few hours and making $500+, its more like Doordash with a ladder.
