Gutter Contractor Software in Mississippi

Rain does the everyday damage in Mississippi, and where it goes matters more here than almost anywhere. The Jackson metro sits on Yazoo clay, which can shrink and swell by as much as 38 percent, and foundation movement of three to five inches is common. A downspout that dumps beside a slab on that clay is a foundation repair waiting to happen, so downspout extensions and drainage are the first upsell in the trade and the one the customer thanks you for. Six-inch gutters and oversized downspouts are a normal spec, because the spring storms drop inches in an hour.

Storms do the rest. Katrina in 2005 damaged or destroyed about 158,000 houses in the three shoreline counties, and the hurricanes since have torn gutters off houses from Pascagoula to Bay St. Louis. Heavy-duty hangers spaced tight are a normal spec on the coast, and the hangers only hold if the fascia does, so a gutter company checks the fascia for rot and termites before it hangs a run. Inland, hail dents aluminum most springs, and the dents along the front face are among the first things an adjuster photographs.

The trees keep the work coming. Mississippi is pine country, and pine needles slide through the guards made for leaves and pack the downspouts, while the oaks fill gutters in a few weeks each fall. 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 all year.

Licensing is by the dollar. A job over $10,000 takes a residential remodeler license from the State Board of Contractors. A gutter job alone rarely reaches that line, but a company that also roofs carries the license and, on a claim, the roofing law's five-day right to cancel and its ban on paying the deductible. Mississippi has no mandatory statewide residential code, and nearly half its counties have never adopted one, so the inspection a gutter run gets depends on which side of a county line the house is on.