Gutter Contractor Software in Texas

Houston gets about fifty inches of rain a year, and in August 2017 Harvey dropped a year's worth in four days. The metro saw 36 to 48 inches, Nederland to the east recorded 60.58, the most from one storm anywhere in the country's history, and more than 300,000 structures flooded. A gutter does not stop a flood, but it is the difference between a normal storm running off cleanly and water pooling against the slab. Six-inch gutters and oversized downspouts are the Houston spec, and where the water goes matters as much as catching it, because the clay under the city swells when it is wet and moves the foundation.

Hail does the damage up north. The 2016 season did more than $5 billion in damage across Dallas, Fort Worth, and San Antonio, aluminum dents, 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. The 2019 deductible law applies to anyone paid from a property insurance claim, so a gutter contract of $1,000 or more on a claim carries the deductible notice and the same ban on eating the deductible.

Texas trees keep a gutter company busy twice a year. The live oaks drop their leaves in spring rather than fall, and the pecans and post oaks drop theirs in November, so the cleaning and guard season runs in two waves. Seamless aluminum in five and six inch K-style is nearly all of the residential work, run out of a machine on the truck, and the work runs all year.

There is no state license for gutter installation. Dallas registers contractors every year, San Antonio requires a Home Improvement Contractor registration, and Houston registers nobody. A company that also does roofing in the coastal counties deals with the windstorm inspection on every re-roof.