Gutter Contractor Software in Colorado

Hail is the reason a lot of gutter work exists on the Front Range. Aluminum dents, and after a storm the dents along the front face are among the first things an adjuster photographs. The storm that crossed the west side of Denver on May 8, 2017 did $2.3 billion in insured damage, and gutters were on many of the 100,000 homeowner claims behind it. A gutter company that documents the damage well ends up attached to a lot of roof claims. Colorado's storm-contract law covers roofing only, so the gutter part runs on ordinary contract rules.

Snow does the winter damage. The Front Range gets upslope storms that drop a foot or two of heavy, wet snow in a day, and in the mountain towns snow slides off a metal roof and takes the gutter with it unless snow guards hold it back. Ice dams form in the mountain towns above any poorly insulated ceiling. Heavy-duty hangers spaced tight are a normal spec, and the guards that survive are the ones that stay put in the wind that comes down off the foothills all winter.

The plains are dry, and a lot of newer subdivisions have few trees big enough to fill a gutter. Denver's older neighborhoods and the creek bottoms have cottonwoods and maples that fill them in a few weeks each fall, so guards are the upsell there. Seamless aluminum in five and six inch K-style is nearly all of the residential work, run out of a machine on the truck.

There is no state license for gutter installation. Denver, Aurora, and the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department license contractors on their own terms, and a company that also does roofing carries a roofing license as well. Dry winters let the work run most of the year, with the fall rush in October and November.