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Gutter work looks like one number per foot until there's a second story, a guard that's already on, or a downspout full of grit. Those are different minutes. This calculator keeps them in separate boxes so changing one doesn't pretend it changed the others.
The main range is today's visit: the cleaning, plus any hanger resets or new guard you're selling now. A spring-and-fall pair sits underneath, outside that range, so a one-time install doesn't get billed twice. The discount on the second visit starts at 10 percent and should be zero if you don't actually discount.
Seasonal work is full of businesses that quote once and never call the house again. If you want help picking which of those businesses fits you, the free Boring Business Suggester is the short quiz. This page is just the arithmetic.
Example rates only. They are not a market price. Story and guard factors stack on the per-foot cleaning rate. Downspouts are a count, not extra feet.
The per-foot rate is the cleaning itself. Multiply it by the story factor, and by the guard factor if you're working around covers that are already screwed down. Those two factors stack. A second-story house with guards is not "a bit more than one story." It is both multipliers, and you can set either of them to 1 when your crew doesn't feel the difference.
Downspouts are a count because flushing six of them is six walks to the bottom, a hose, and sometimes a fitting, not "a few extra feet of trough." Hanger resets are also a count. New guard is linear feet of material and labor you're selling today. Leave it at zero on a clean-only call.
Today's range adds those up and, if the total is under your minimum, shows the bump. The two-cleaning figure is a different question: what do two maintenance visits cost if the one-time work happens once? Each cleaning is raised to the minimum on its own when the cleaning portion is smaller than that. The second cleaning then takes your discount percent. Hangers and new guard are added after that, one time. The 10 percent in the box is not a promotion. It's a knob. Zero it if fall costs the same as spring.
I did not put leaf volume, pitch problems, or fascia rot on this form. If the trough is packed solid or the spikes are pulling out of rotten wood, you're no longer in a per-foot clean. Say so in the estimate note, and price the repair as its own line when you build the real page.
Write down a house you cleaned last week and price it from memory before you open a chat. If you can't, the page won't save you. Claude will happily invent a per-foot number that looks printed. The prompt forbids that, but only if your numbers are actually in it.
Build a single-page gutter cleaning quote calculator I can preview in the browser. Do not invent prices. My business: [gutter cleaning, city] Who uses it: a homeowner who can pace the house, or guess. They enter: - linear feet of gutter - stories: 1, 2, or 3 - downspouts to flush - whether guards are already on - hangers to reset - feet of new guard to install Pricing rules. Ask if a blank is empty. Do not look up what gutters "usually" cost. - Cleaning $[ ] per foot at one story with no guards - Story factors: 1 story [ ], 2 stories [ ], 3 stories [ ] - If guards are already on, multiply the per-foot cleaning by [ ] - Downspouts $[ ] each - Hanger resets $[ ] each - New guard $[ ] per foot - Minimum for today's visit $[ ] - Second-cleaning discount [ ] percent. Use 0 if I don't discount. - Range for today's visit: [ ] percent under, [ ] percent over Today's visit is cleaning plus hangers plus new guard, raised to the minimum if needed. Also show two cleanings: each cleaning raised to the minimum on its own, the second one discounted, hangers and new guard added once. Put that pair outside the main range. Say both numbers are estimates until we see the house. Do not add a siding wash. Phone-friendly. When you finish, list anything you assumed.
The two-visit number is as far as this page goes. A reminder that goes out next spring is a different build, and it's the kind of thing the $27 course gets to after the calculator works. Thirty emails, about 15 minutes a day.
In the example, yes, because cleaning around guards is slower. The multiplier is yours. Set it to 1 if guards don't change your price. New guard install is a separate per-foot rate, counted once.
Two cleaning visits. The second one takes the discount percent you set. Set that percent to 0 if October costs the same as April. Hanger resets and new guards are added once, not twice. The figure sits outside the main range.
No. They are round examples so you can see the formula. They are not a market price. Put your own numbers in before this leaves your kitchen table.
Same site, different units. Feet of fence, square feet of concrete, a lawn on a schedule, a truck full of junk.