Gutter cleaning
Fits best: someone comfortable on ladders who wants spring and fall routes.
Pros
- ✓Easy to add to windows and washing
- ✓Opens on under $10K of equipment
- ✓High margin per job
- ✓No special license to start
Cons
- !Seasonal and weather-dependent
- !Reviews and steady marketing decide who wins locally
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 30 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 60 jobs a month in season. Add window cleaning for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Upgrade to gutter guards and seamless gutter installs.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Upgrade to gutter guards and seamless gutter installs.
The details
- Vehicle
- Truck with ladder rack
- Repeat customers
- Medium
- Licensing
- Low
- Season
- Spring and fall
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
Easy add-on to windows and washing.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (60), times 6 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: published industry sources.