Gutter Contractor Software in New Hampshire

Ice is the reason a lot of gutter work exists in New Hampshire, and December 2008 is the winter everyone measures against. The storm of December 11 and 12 put 422,000 homes in the dark, more than 60 percent of the state, and tore gutters off with the limbs from Nashua to the Lakes Region. In an ordinary winter 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. Heavy-duty hangers spaced tight are a normal spec, and the guards that survive are the ones that stay put under ice, not just the ones that shed leaves.

Water does the rest. The floods of July 2023 washed out roads across five counties, 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 New Hampshire houses have basements, and a downspout that dumps beside a fieldstone foundation in the Monadnock region 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. New Hampshire is hardwood and pine country, the maples and oaks fill gutters in a few weeks each fall, and the white pines drop needles all year that slide through guards made for leaves. 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.

New Hampshire licenses nothing in this trade. There is no state license and no registration for a gutter company, and the Attorney General's office says so. The door-to-door law gives the homeowner until midnight of the third business day to cancel any sale of $25 or more made at the house, and the State Building Code applies everywhere, with inspection depending on whether the town has an inspector to send.