Seasonal gutter cleaning with a twice-a-year plan
Gutter cleaning is a chore homeowners avoid and roofers price too high for. A dedicated, ladder-and-blower operator can own the simple, recurring twice-a-year job and lock in customers on a spring/fall plan.
$0-500
$2,000-5,000/mo seasonal
Top of range — not a guarantee
Where this signal comes from
Nationally there are 138,018 building-exterior services (pressure washing, gutters, pools) — 4.1 per 10,000 residents, counting both those with employees and those without (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023). Scoutway compares your own county against that rate.
Some counties have a fraction of that rate; some have several times more. Join the waitlist to see where your own county lands.
Sources: US Census County Business Patterns ↗ (businesses with employees) and Nonemployer Statistics ↗ (sole proprietors). Every figure here is the two added together.
Roofers want the roof job — the gutters alone go unserved.
Gutters fill twice a year on a schedule set by the trees, not the customer. A roofing contractor is over-equipped for a job that needs a ladder and an hour, which is why the task tends to sit between a homeowner who won't climb and a contractor who won't quote it.
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