[zesty]

As the title suggests.

I’ve got a massive guttter clearing job to do on a huge house. Wondering if it’s worth getting one.

Thoughts and opinions from those that own them...

[Shrek]

Depends if you price the jobs properly, there’s too many idiots still pricing gutter jobs for £10 a bungalow, £20 semi , £30 detached that I know of

[dazmond]

Depends if you price the jobs properly, there’s too many idiots still pricing gutter jobs for £10 a bungalow, £20 semi , £30 detached that I know of

if you get a few down the same road you could still make £80 an hour at them prices....

eg 4 semis at £20 taking 15 mins each....not too shabby at all.....

[SB Cleaning]

Depends if you price the jobs properly, there’s too many idiots still pricing gutter jobs for £10 a bungalow, £20 semi , £30 detached that I know of

if you get a few down the same road you could still make £80 an hour at them prices....

eg 4 semis at £20 taking 15 mins each....not too shabby at all.....

15mins?? Yeah right.

[Shrek]

They don’t take 15 mins daz

[Slacky]

It takes 20 mins + to set up a gutter vac, thats plopped your 4 jobs an hour right on the bonce Daz.

I’ve got a Spinaclean vac and would say it’s the most expensive piece of kit I’ve bought if you consider what it’s given back to the business.

I wouldn’t buy another. For me to consider it to have been worthwhile I’d need to pick up a £3K job that couldn’t be done any other way and that is finished in a week.

[dazmond]

ok ill admit im wrong on this one.....ive never used a gutter vac in my life!

i thought it would be easy...a quick vacuum around the gutters and on to the next job!

[mufcglen]

I used to have a guttervac then sold it to concentrate on the windows but then I started to get previous gutter job customers asking again and a lot of them was my regular window cleans so felt bad passing them away and if they’re gutter jobs you done before you know generally how full they will be and how quick it will take you so a few months ago I decided to buy another vac set up, I bought the 35ft carbon 1800w vac set up from gutter cleaning systems as I was happy enough with my old set up and not doing it every day I knew the 1800w vac would be spot on for me, £425 it paid for itself after 4-5 jobs and now its sat in the van as a back up to jobs difficult to get to by ladders so there’s nothing I can’t reach.
On most simple safe to reach gutter jobs though I find throwing the ladders up and going up with the gutterpro tools on one of my old gardiner poles can be miles quicker and you know you’ve got everything out properly as I’ve always found guttervacs as good as they can be sometimes they don’t quite get everything out when you’ve got awkward gutters fitted.
For £400 though its peanuts and worth having in the van as part of the kit

[robbo333]

I’ve just bought one, so I hope it’s worth it 

[The Jester of Wibbly]

Always worth it.  Even just for the odd jobs for your long standing customers.

If you don't they will look for someone else do to the job at the risk of them also being a wc who will try and take your customer off you.

[Smudger]

well worth it - my omnivac is now 9 years old and done  well over 1000 gutter clears - from bungalows to complete sites, it easily does 3 storey work

minimum charge is 60 quid ( bungalow ) - the guys work as a 2 man team and the average house takes 20 mins - sometimes when there are really bad half hour

if your going to buy one go for a better quality set up and get one with a solid 135 degree bend NOT the silly silicone bends they are rubbish - for second vac came with one and the guys hate it, I've just got to get around to making an aluminium for it

Darran

[SB Cleaning]

ok ill admit im wrong on this one.....ive never used a gutter vac in my life!

i thought it would be easy...a quick vacuum around the gutters and on to the next job!

I think your wrong on most subjects

[deeege]

ok ill admit im wrong on this one.....ive never used a gutter vac in my life!

i thought it would be easy...a quick vacuum around the gutters and on to the next job!

Dazmond admitting he is wrong?? This has got to be a first for CIU!

[Kev Martin]

ok ill admit im wrong on this one.....ive never used a gutter vac in my life!

i thought it would be easy...a quick vacuum around the gutters and on to the next job!

I take my hat off to you and fair play to you for admitting you were bullshi$$ing in the first place

[zesty]

Cheers guys.

If I get one, it’ll be a decent sky vac then.

[Slacky]

Cheers guys.

If I get one, it’ll be a decent sky vac then.

You can have mine if you want.

[NWH]

If you have jobs that the gulper can go into with ease they are brilliant if not they can’t be cleaned with it,you want jobs that use large brackets to hold he gutters up with that make them stick out clear of the tiles. I’ve looked at what would have been really good money to do in the past only to find you can’t get  the gulper tool in at all making it impossible to use the vac,i now get up and look before I’d price and say I could do them first.

[NWH]

If your using it just to remove silt it’s a license to print money with the vac,charge per linear meter you’ll earn good money doing gutters,charge per job like windows and you may as well be doing windows.

[deeege]

If your using it just to remove silt it’s a license to print money with the vac,charge per linear meter you’ll earn good money doing gutters,charge per job like windows and you may as well be doing windows.

Getting gutter jobs that just require silt removing are a license to print money whether you have a vac or not. In reality those jobs are few and far between though.

[NWH]

Jobs with mainly silt are near to the coast,moss and barnicle type scabs  on tiles get washed into the gutters and end up as or like silt,some jobs I’ve just used the Gardiner gutter jet it clears a hell of a lot of gutters to an acceptable standard. I don’t go after gutter work I’ve  past no end of work onto a chap I use,it’s a dirty horrible job using a vac in a lot of cases.