Gutter cleaning price calculator
What to charge for one property, and how many jobs and regular customers it takes to earn what you want. Start from the example numbers, then put in your own.
Price for one property
£37
- Your time £35
- Materials £2
Minutes spent doing one job
Getting there, parking, loading up
What an hour of your time must earn
For one job: products, resin, a share of fuel
To take home £2,000 a month
- Jobs a month
- 65
- 15 a week
- Paid hours
- 65
- 15 a week
- Customers
- 520
- on the round
£2,000 to take home + £370 running costs = £2,370 of takings a month.
About 15 hours a week of paid work, which leaves room for admin and for growing the round.
Each month, before tax
Per month: insurance, van, kit, phone
From one regular customer
The starting numbers are an example to show the method, not a market price. Time a few real jobs, work out what an hour of your time has to earn (the pricing guide shows how) and check the result against what customers near you will pay.
How the price is worked out
Your time at your hourly rate, plus what the job costs you, rounded up to a whole pound. Nothing is added for luck.
The gutter cleaning year
Busiest in autumn, once the leaves are down, and spring. Quietest in mid-summer and deep winter. Price for the whole year, not the best month, and check that the quiet months still cover your running costs.
What moves the price in gutter cleaning
- Length of gutter and number of downpipes
- Height: a bungalow and a three-storey house are different jobs
- How blocked it is: moss and silt take far longer than a few leaves
- Access: conservatory roofs, extensions and steep gardens
- Whether a camera check or a photo report is included
Then set a minimum job price, because setting up for a small bungalow takes nearly as long as a large house.
Questions people ask
- How much should a gutter cleaner charge per property?
- There's no single right figure. It depends on what an hour of your time has to earn, how long a job takes you and what it costs to do. In gutter cleaning, the things that move the price most are: length of gutter and number of downpipes; height: a bungalow and a three-storey house are different jobs; how blocked it is: moss and silt take far longer than a few leaves. Put your own numbers in the calculator, then check the result against what customers near you will pay.
- How long does one property take?
- The calculator starts from 45 minutes on site plus 15 minutes getting there and setting up, 60 in all. That's an example to show the method. Time a few real jobs, including the driving, and use your own average.
- Should a gutter cleaner set a minimum charge?
- Yes. Set a minimum job price, because setting up for a small bungalow takes nearly as long as a large house. If a customer won't pay it, they cost you more in time than they pay you, and the round is better without them.
- How many regular customers does a gutter cleaner need?
- Customers come back once a year for most customers, twice for houses under trees, about 1.5 visits a year, so each regular customer is worth that many jobs. The calculator turns the income you want into jobs a month and then into the number of customers it takes. Change the visits a year to match how often yours really come back.
- Do gutter cleaning prices change through the year?
- The work is busiest in autumn, once the leaves are down, and spring and quietest in mid-summer and deep winter. The work follows the leaves: demand bunches up in a few months, and ice or high winds make roof-height work unsafe in winter. Many traders keep the price steady and smooth the income instead, for example by agreeing a fixed monthly amount with regular customers.
WorkWise Rounds
Keep each customer's price on their card
In Rounds every customer has their own services, their own price and how often you go, and the round plans itself around them.
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