[wizard]

What i need to know is: I have heard prices for gutter cleans at 3 pound a metre etc. What is down for this some. Tell  me the full service offered.

[Mike #1]

never charge by metre £15 to clean muck out of gutter per side , fascia and gutter clean of pvc £20 , with sofits £30 per side

[elite mike]

there is a guy round here doing 3 bed semis for

wait for it

£20. : that includes the cleaning out of the gutters and  cleaning all fascias soffits etc

the trouble is he is making a damn good job of it 

[ftp]

£50 down my way. 

[ftp]

Which kind of spoils Glyns argument of charging the earth just because you've spent thousands on a Guttervac. You can't charge hundreds of pounds with competition like that about can you?

[Window Washers]

£100's not really on a standard 3 bed house, but you can charge more than that of a guy with a ladder and bucket.

And before someone thinks of jumping on my back. Think about the other call out charges from other companies and what they use.

1 is a drain jetting company £100 min charge takes 5 mins but they have the professional tools, my home use pressure washer 10 mins cost me £60.
it is perceived value that sells.

Now on guttering, man and ladder charges lets say £25 takes 15 mins using ladder and bucket, down he comes from lader with bucket in hand, knocks door £25 please madam, shes there adding up in her head this guy is making £100 an hour my windows only take 15 and he charges me £7. Her end thought i am getting done here. Not everone is like this but any are.

Gutter vac cleaner charges £50 takes 15 mins unloads equipment that customer sees, shows dvd video proof gutter cleared. knocks door when finished £50 please madam. she pays and feel happy...

Same job, difference equipment, different price.

This is what I have found doing this job both ways.


I do not charge any of the prices above, they are an example. each job is different!

[ftp]

Aren't customers stupid.

[Window Washers]

Aren't customers stupid.

Not at all 

[andyjm1]

never charge by metre £15 to clean muck out of gutter per side , fascia and gutter clean of pvc £20 , with sofits £30 per side

So a 5 metre side costs the same as a 15 metre side?

[Glyn H]

Which kind of spoils Glyns argument of charging the earth just because you've spent thousands on a Guttervac. You can't charge hundreds of pounds with competition like that about can you?

This just highlights the difference what a small business thinks they should charge ( and they wonder why they stay small) against a professionaly run "specialist".
The largest gutter cleaning company in England has a turnover of £20,000,000 per annum - they dont clean a million properties to get this amount!
They know how much scaffolding for a building would cost and charge less.

[Edge Clean]

Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Average council house approx 8m of guttering a side

Local window cleaners = £15 for whole lot.

Local roofing and guttering company = £9 per metre.

and its the roofing company that seems to be flooded with the work!!!!

[Seers]

Hi Glyn,

Who are the market leaders in commercial gutter cleaning? TGM?

Cheers,

Huw

[ftp]

I spent over ten thousand on my wfp set up. I don't charge up to 10,000 times more than the guy with his bucket do I?

You are comparing gutter cleaning with a vac against scaffolding and cherry pickers on commercial work
Most on here are comparing a vac against a guy with a ladder and bucket on residential work. Big difference in where the competition is coming from.

[ftp]

Tam, £15 the lot has to be a desperate man in any area.

[Glyn H]

You are comparing gutter cleaning with a vac against scaffolding and cherry pickers on commercial work
Most on here are comparing a vac against a guy with a ladder and bucket on residential work. Big difference in where the competition is coming from.

Nothing stops any one with the right equipment and Health & Safety documentation from approaching any size commercial organisation and providing a quotation.

[Window Washers]

You are comparing gutter cleaning with a vac against scaffolding and cherry pickers on commercial work
Most on here are comparing a vac against a guy with a ladder and bucket on residential work. Big difference in where the competition is coming from.

Nothing stops any one with the right equipment and Health & Safety documentation from approaching any size commercial organisation and providing a quotation.

that is so true. 

[ftp]

Very true. But the point was about pricing up gutter cleaning which most I would imagine took to be residential work.
Commercial work is a different ball game because of the health and safety isues like you said Glyn and the alternative methods of emptying gutters. I have no argument with that.

[big J]

in my humble opinion gutters and windows are different products and so command different prices. Whilst you will always get someone cheaper than any price quoted i for one would look VPM rather than simple price.
For example I buy Hienz Beans at 48p but could get asda own brand for 21p you pays your money you takes your choice. I truely believe that if you look and do the business you will do the business

[Sean Dyer]

£50 down my way. 

£50 for whole house or a side??

Id charge from 15 -30 a side depends who big it is and how soiled, usually my custies get it done cheap when its raining or similar and specific gutter jobs are around 25 a side

[ftp]

£50 the lot - empty, clean soffits and fascias the whole shabang.
I know these prices have been quoted it's one street over from me too. Customer chose me through recommendation and he didn't like doorknockers. I did it for £65 which is still too cheap in my opinion but most customers around me aren't stupid and there's plenty of cheap competition about at the moment. Some of the dearest/fastest are the Gypsies who live on a site just outside of town.