Gutter cleaning: guides and software for gutter cleaners
Gutter cleaning is clearing leaves, moss and silt from gutters and downpipes, often with a gutter-vacuum pole from the ground, sometimes from a ladder or tower.
The gutter cleaning year
Busiest in autumn, once the leaves are down, and spring. Quietest in mid-summer and deep winter.
- Example price per property
- £37
- Jobs a month to earn £2,000
- 65
Example numbers to show the method, not market prices.
Written for gutter cleaners
The same advice as the general guides, with gutter cleaning numbers, kit, rules and seasons.
- Pricing5 min readHow to price gutter cleaning: a worked exampleA step-by-step price for gutter cleaning, with the sums, the minimum charge and how many jobs it takes to earn a living.
- Starting out6 min readHow to start a gutter cleaning businessThe order to do things in, the kit, the rules to check and where your first customers come from.
- Tax & books5 min readGutter cleaning: expenses you can claimWhat gutter cleaners can deduct before tax, with an example year of costs and the receipts to keep.
- Starting out5 min readGutter cleaning insurance: what you needThe cover gutter cleaners should ask about, the risks behind most claims and the rules to check.
- Growing4 min readQuiet months in gutter cleaning: how to plan the yearWhen gutter cleaning is busy and quiet, how to smooth the income, and the buffer to build.
What gutter cleaners need from software
WorkWise Rounds is built for people who visit the same customers again and again. It plans the round, runs the day on your phone, and gets you paid.
- Remember next autumn
- A customer list with each customer's next visit date and a reminder text before it's due.
- Tell customers when you're coming
- A text the day before a job at height, so someone is home to move the car or shut the gate.
- Get paid on the day
- A pay link goes to the customer when you tap Done, and Direct Debit customers are collected for you.
For every round trade
Money, tax and getting paid work the same way whatever you do.
- Getting paid6 min readChasing late payments politely, with texts you can copyHow to stop payments going late in the first place, and a polite ladder of messages for when they do.
- Getting paid6 min readDirect Debit for small traders: how it works and whether to use itDirect Debit, card, bank transfer and cash compared, and how to get customers to say yes.
- Tax & books8 min readMaking Tax Digital for sole traders: do you need it, and when?HMRC's new way of reporting income tax: who must use it, the start dates, the quarterly deadlines and what to do now.
- Tax & books8 min readRegistering as a sole trader: tax, deadlines and what to set asideWhen to tell HMRC, the dates that matter, how much tax to expect and how to avoid a January shock.
- Growing6 min readHow to get your first customersLeaflets, doorsteps, Facebook groups and reviews: what works for a local round, and what to watch out for.
- Starting out6 min readHow to buy a round, and what to check firstA bought round can save you years of leafleting, but only if the customers and the numbers are real.
- Starting out6 min readSwitching round software without losing customers or moneyHow to move from another app, a spreadsheet or a paper round book without double-charging anyone.