Gutter washing

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outlaw

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I always include the outside of the gutters with a house wash, and keep the inside of the gutters a completly different issue, but I have been asked about cleaning just the outside of the gutters without cleaning the rest of the house, my question is how to charge for this, I don't see how I could do it much cheaper than a full house wash. How do you all handle this?

Gav
 
I charged less then a full house wash, and above my minimum charge.........keep in mind, you will have to rinse the house.........but you dont really have to "wash" it.

The job pictured below was a exterior gutter wash only........well, I washed the capping too.......it was stained like the gutters. The house has 143' of gutters.........not sure how much capping.........it is a ranch home.........got $175.

Well, sorry cant find that pic right now.......
 
Thanks Mike, thats what I was thinking, being as you still have to set up and rinse the house down, if your doing the soffit and fascia with it, does the gutter Zap work for both?
Was that a double or single story?

Gav
 
It was single story.

Zap works on both, but fascias are sometimes tough.......they seem to be made out of the armpit of aluminum (low grade) and don't clean up well.........if you wanted to, I guess you could brush it and see if it came up any better.
 
We always include a full gutter wash when we do a house. We even blow the leaves out of em from the roof (but dont collect them). Most people seem to like the complimentary gutter cleaning. Besides, a house looks like Sh*t if you clean the whole exterior and not the gutters.. It's the finishing touches if you ask me. What do you guys normally get for cleaning a house that takes 2-3 hours w/ gutters? We get around $350-$400/ house (small 1-2 story).. maybe its the gutter cleaning that sells em..
 
I get anywhere from aroung $250-$350 depending on size, I go by linear footage, I do clean the outside of the gutters, but I haven't tried Gutter zap yet. I couldn't possibly offer cleaning out the inside of the gutters for free, I average $145-$165 for cleaning them out!

Gav
 
For cleaning the gutters (and the house pretty much) we simply use bleach.. it does a great job on the house, and makes the gutters look brand new. Sometimes we use a soap called "miss red".. it's a soap/degreaser.. does a nice job.
 
Does the "Miss Red" get rid of the black streaks on the gutters, I just use a home made cleaning solution, which gets everything clean, but only diminishes the black streaks.

Gav
 
I just did a condo association, 17 buildings with a total of 88 condos. I found that a 50/50 mix of bleach and citrus cleaner did a good job on the gutters, fascia, drip edges, brick, and wood (each unit is divided by a wooden fence made of PT lumber which was very very green/black with mildew). I'm fairly new at this, so I'm sure there are better mixes that some of the guys here can suggest. I'm picking up my hot water rig next week, and it comes with 20 gallons of gutter zap, so I'm going to see how that works out on the next job I have with bad gutters.
 
We pretty much just soak the entire house in miss red, and then go over the gutters with a brush and a bucket of bleach. No black streaks whatsoever..
 
oneness

be carefull with that gutter zap if your not used to useing it.
You can streak the heck out of the siding.
Put your cleaner on the siding first. Then zap the gutters. Then rinse from gutters down.
Who has had fun doing second story dormers with a brush?
Ever knock out the soffit with the brush? Dont you love it when they wont stop leaking dirt out of them? Dont you just love looking up to the second story and getting a drip in the eye?
Please dont tell me that someone uses a ladder to go with that brush?
Extanda wand hooked to a flo-jet that is pumping gutter zap , mixed at 2 to 1. Then rinse with the x-jet.
For $50 more i'll put the candy cane on the extenda wand and clean the insides of the gutter too.
No brush,no ladder,no wasted chem.
This i do IF the limonlene wont get them clean.
Just what i do,you can try it if you want.
 
all of them

the zap will clean better then most chems your going to use. So if it drips on the siding it will clean it better then your mix. That will make it look streaky. You can fix it by cleaning the whole side with zap but it get's costly. Also if it gets behind the sideing and later drips from the weep hole's it will look like hell.
I want to try the NEW zap. If it's better then the old, he really has something special.
 
Be especially careful with alum and wood. Like said above, spray the zap after either wetting the siding or spraying your regular cleaner on the siding.

On aluminum siding, G. Zap will leave "clean" spots. On wood, it might leave spots of discoloration if you let it dry on there. And it's murder on windows if you let it dry.

When used properly, it works very well.
 
Thanks for the heads up, it's nice to benifit from yalls knowledge, without haveing to learn the hardway!

Gav
 
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