Gutter Contractor Software in Connecticut

Ice is the reason a lot of gutter work exists in Connecticut. The winters run long, a gutter carrying an inch of ice in a January wind pulls hangers out of the fascia, and ice dams form above any poorly insulated ceiling, which on the sixth oldest housing stock in the country is most of them. Heavy-duty hangers spaced tight are a normal spec, and the guards that survive are the ones that stay put under ice. The October 2011 snowstorm dropped 12 to 18 inches on trees still in leaf, and the gutters came down with the limbs across the state.

Rain does the rest. The remnants of Ida dropped 3 to 8.5 inches on the state on September 1 and 2, 2021 and brought Connecticut its first flash flood emergency, and a five-inch gutter with one downspout on a big colonial overflows at the corners in an ordinary summer storm. Six-inch gutters and oversized downspouts are a normal spec. Where the water goes matters too, because Connecticut houses have basements, and a downspout that dumps beside a fieldstone foundation in Litchfield County or a block foundation in Fairfield ends up in the basement. Downspout extensions are the first upsell in the trade and the one the customer thanks you for.

The trees keep the work coming. Connecticut is hardwood country, and the oaks and maples fill gutters in a few weeks each fall from the Litchfield hills to the shoreline. Seamless aluminum in five and six inch K-style is nearly all of the residential work, formed on site from coil, and the work runs from April into November.

Connecticut registers every home improvement contractor at $200. A gutter company carries a registration from the Department of Consumer Protection, $20,000 in liability coverage, and a payment into the Guaranty Fund, and writes every job into the state's form of contract, with the four dates and the three-business-day right to cancel attached in duplicate. The 2022 State Building Code applies statewide, and every town has a building official.