Gutter Contractor Software in Kentucky

Ice is the reason a lot of gutter work exists in Kentucky. The storm of January 2009 put up to two and a half inches of ice on the state, brought trees and limbs down on nearly every street, and left more than 500,000 homes without power. The gutters went with the limbs, and a gutter carrying an inch of ice in a Kentucky wind pulls hangers out of the fascia on its own. Heavy-duty hangers spaced tight are a normal spec here, and the guards that survive are the ones that stay put under ice, not just the ones that shed leaves.

Rain does the everyday damage. The spring storms drop inches in an hour, and the floods of July 2022 showed eastern Kentucky what water does when it has nowhere to go. Six-inch gutters and oversized downspouts are a normal spec on a big house. Where the water goes matters too. The clay along the Ohio around Louisville swells when it is wet and shrinks when it is dry, and the limestone under Lexington sends water sideways into the basement, so a downspout extension is the cheapest upsell in the trade and the one the customer thanks you for.

The trees keep the work coming. The oaks, maples, and hickories fill gutters in a few weeks each fall, and after a storm the torn runs are on the same claim as the roof, with the dents along the front face among the first things an adjuster photographs. 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 March into December.

Kentucky has no state license for gutter installation. Louisville Metro licenses contractors and Lexington registers them, and a company that also roofs carries the roofing law's five-day right to cancel and its ban on paying the deductible on every claim. Any sale made in the home carries the three-business-day right to cancel.