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Need help with a gutter quote please

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Tony Hall

Hi Guys,

Need some help with a Quote for a job that I'm looking at tomorrow, have to clear the guttering out with a Sky vac and poles. Just had a look on google maps and I was astounded at what I seen, its actually a Masons Lodge and this will be my first big house. Does anybody have any idea just what I should charge as a whole or should I charge by the hour, this place is blooming massive.

Press this link to go to google maps and have a look at the property.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/70A+Boreham+Rd,+Warminster,+Wiltshire+BA12+9JN/@51.2005951,-2.1687155,3a,75y,183h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sMTmoo_a0zX1Vv-aPvF2RPA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DMTmoo_a0zX1Vv-aPvF2RPA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D183.57779%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x4873d19d6912323b:0xabbfe06066247468!6m1!1e1

Any help you guys could give me would be really helpful as I don't have a clue on what I would charge, I also found out that it is a grade 2 listed building. I'm going tomorrow afternoon with the inspection pole and camera and I'll tell him that I've got to go and work it out, and get back in touch.

Thanks all.

Tony

 
Which house is it on the link tony?
The big stone one Jake with the cars on the tarmac drive set back, just look for the cables connected to it. It also has a conservatory over hanging on the back.

 
Not seeing a stone one? Only a brick one, the stone one is the one that's Almost on the road?

 
Id chance £240 as its three storey not as many will be equipped for it. Don't think being listed makes much difference unless you break something /emoticons/biggrin.png

 
Not seeing a stone one? Only a brick one, the stone one is the one that's Almost on the road?
Hey Jake,

When you first punch up on google you'll see a big big house set back off the road with a tarmac drive and wall at the front with two entrance's, it has two cars on the driveway with a blue one near the garage and a pole at the front with a lot's of wires on it.....That's the three storey house.

 
ide charge £110 to clean the gutters lol if i had a vac, i bet that no more than 2 hours wrk but im probly to cheep lmfao £240 sounds like a nce price tho @Jimroot my price is on the fact that im gesing its 4 long gutters +the 3 lower sections of guttering to the rite if there is a conny on the back then ide charge more its a beast of a job that one

 
@Tony Hall

Assuming the back is the same, maybe £200-£250 depending on how much you think they'll be willing to pay,

Just make sure to tell them how awkward it is, and how it will need 'specialist equipment' which isn't cheap, etc etc, - so they understand the price is justified, which it is.

Let us know how it goes!

In reality, I'd be happy with £200, spend the day there, taking it easy, and getting £200 at the end is lovely jubs!

No chasing money, and all one lump sum!

If your getting a real bad feeling that they won't take £200 then lowest I'd go personally is £175, but I think with the equipment needed and the fact that most other windies wouldn't be able to do it, I'd go £200

 
Thanks Guys for the advice, I was told that there is a conny on the back and I've been told by the guy that no one has been able to reach the guttering above as it sticks to far out.

As I'm going there to weigh up the job I'll take my poles with me just to make sure that the poles will reach over to clear out the gutters above the conny, it is a best of a job tench your right.

Thanks again guys./emoticons/wink.png

 
Tell you what Jake I'm glad I don't have to get on a ladder, as that's blooming high up..Thank God for the Sky Vac./emoticons/smile.png

 
If the gutters are accessible by vac nozzle, not over hung, and the debris is the right type, not compacted saturated mud and roots, it might take 2 hours but likely it's a beast and will take 6 including set up etc. If the gaps too narrow you might want a mate and a large ladder on standby if possible

 
Bloody google maps, turns out that the house was three doors down..I'm gonna have a good luck by car next time. Got to the address and he wanted 4 sides doing including the conny gutters as well and its a big conny, he told me that he had done some of it by himself at the front.

Knowing that he wasn't gonna pay £100 I said that I though the job would cost around £80-£90, he told me that the window cleaner did it last year for £60 and that he would let me do it for £70......I thought I was the one running the business, I set the price not anyone else.

The house is a bit like my Avatar photo with a double garage on the side, for the time of year and its a hour and a half's work what do you all think ?

His gutters are full with leaves off his neighbour's tree, the photos where crappy as it was getting a bit dark.

 
Hey Guys,

Have a look at these 2 photos its the house in between the big one and the stone one that has a green door.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2005951,-2.1687155,3a,75y,214.05h,93.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMTmoo_a0zX1Vv-aPvF2RPA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Its the one in the background with the pillars that you go through,

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2006698,-2.1690387,3a,75y,199.73h,93.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVOkM4mbHA4RKE9_wForpHQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I must admit I'm bloody unhappy with the way it turned out but a job is a job and I'll know next time not to back down as I paid a lot for the equipment.

 
If it really is 1.5 hours work sounds ok but what if it isn't and takes double, you'll resent the price. If you want the job say you'll meet half way at £80, if you're not too keen say the price is £100 take or leave. I take it it isn't listed and three floors though?

If it's lower than your usual rate you can't let him dictate to lower pricing

 
Hey Jim,

Found it at last on Google maps and I've posted it below, it's the house set back behind the house with the green door at the front.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2006698,-2.1690387,3a,75y,167.65h,93.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVOkM4mbHA4RKE9_wForpHQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

I'm going to tell him Jim that I'll go on Monday morning for £70 and I'll chalk it up as experience but if he wants it doing say in the next 6 to 8 months I'll tell him how much as its my Business and equipment he's using. If he hired a gutter cleaning machine for the day it would cost him £60-£80 and it would probably have metal poles and he'd have to do it himself.

Its daft Jim but it seems to me that the more money they have the less they want to pay out, he told me that he had a window cleaner turn up who stood on the pitched conny roof and reached up and over the guttering picking out the leaves while stood on tip toes. Every body wants something doing for nothing these days, they don't understand that we have to live as well.

 
I've definitely had more trouble in general with the wealthier ones and prices, but then the prices are higher to account for their sprawling abodes

I found in the summer the vac was working great but now it's winter the stuff clogs the hose or don't even come out the gutter so it's quicker by ladder, same price though.

It's hard to tell much from the pic but if it had anything awkward about it I'd probably shoot for £100, the extra £30 to cover an hour of unforeseen trouble, if it was two ajacent semis gutter all round maybe an extension/connie you'd prob want £100-£120 for the pair

 
Hey Jim,
Found it at last on Google maps and I've posted it below, it's the house set back behind the house with the green door at the front.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2006698,-2.1690387,3a,75y,167.65h,93.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVOkM4mbHA4RKE9_wForpHQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

I'm going to tell him Jim that I'll go on Monday morning for £70 and I'll chalk it up as experience but if he wants it doing say in the next 6 to 8 months I'll tell him how much as its my Business and equipment he's using. If he hired a gutter cleaning machine for the day it would cost him £60-£80 and it would probably have metal poles and he'd have to do it himself.

Its daft Jim but it seems to me that the more money they have the less they want to pay out, he told me that he had a window cleaner turn up who stood on the pitched conny roof and reached up and over the guttering picking out the leaves while stood on tip toes. Every body wants something doing for nothing these days, they don't understand that we have to live as well.
Is it the one with brown window frames? Looks like a front and back job? I'd do that for £80. Looks very straight forward to me, even off ladders you could drag the :turd: over the conny (as long as it's not full length).

Side note at @Trev81, I did a vac job today and it kept on stopping sucking although the motors were still going full pelt. Tried plastic bag over inlet, tried no filter, tried turning filter when filter got wet without plastic bag over inlet.

 
Yeh might be worth a look, happened to me once with loads of pine needles, just blast some water down it with some ubik.

 

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