Gutter Contractor Software in Kansas

Hail is the reason a lot of gutter work exists in Kansas. Wichita and the Johnson County suburbs get hit most summers, aluminum gutters dent, and after a storm the dents along the front face are among the first things an adjuster photographs. A gutter company that documents them well ends up attached to a lot of roof claims. When that happens the job is riding on a roofing contract, and Kansas roofing contracts are regulated. The roofer's registration number is on it, the deductible cannot be rebated, and the homeowner has a 72-hour right to cancel.

A gutter company that does not do roofing is outside the state's roofing registration, which is the only statewide contractor rule Kansas has. The county rules apply instead. Johnson County licenses contractors through its own program, Sedgwick County and Wichita through the Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department, and Topeka on its own. Wyandotte County wants a business license.

Wind does the winter damage. Kansas gets ice storms more often than deep snow, and a gutter carrying an inch of ice in a forty-mile-an-hour wind pulls hangers out of the fascia. Heavy-duty hangers spaced tight are a normal spec here, and the guards that survive are the ones that stay put in the wind, not just the ones that shed leaves.

Seamless aluminum in five and six inch K-style is nearly all of the residential work, run out of a machine on the truck. Fall is the busy season, when the oaks and cottonwoods fill gutters in a few weeks, and guards are the upsell that carries the margin. The season runs long in Kansas, from March into December, and a two-person crew can do two or three houses a day.