Gutter cleaning is the smallest average job on this site, and buying leads for it at market prices is difficult to justify on the first invoice alone. What makes it work is that the customer is seasonal, recurring, and frequently needs guards, fascia repair or roof work that is worth many times the clean.
The first job does not carry the lead
On a job worth a couple of hundred dollars at most, a lead priced anywhere near the published exterior tiers is uneconomic on its own. The published figures in this record run from $100 for an HVAC repair enquiry upward, all pricing much larger jobs, and this page will not borrow them. The only band gutter enquiries fall inside is the general aged home service range of $.10 to $1.50 a lead.
Where the money actually is
A gutter customer is a roof customer who has not been asked yet. Guards, fascia and soffit repair, and a roof inspection while you are up there are all natural add-ons, and for an exterior contractor a gutter enquiry is a cheap route into a much larger job. That is why gutter leads are usually bundled into a wider home-services feed rather than sold as a priced product.
Seasonality and geography
Autumn concentrates demand in most of the country, and drive time eats the margin on a small ticket faster than anything else. Buy tightly by area, buy ahead of the leaf fall rather than during it, and treat a metro-wide feed as more expensive than its rate suggests because a third of it will be too far to serve profitably.
Questions people ask about gutter cleaning leads
What do gutter cleaning leads cost?
No source in this record publishes a gutter figure. The only band gutter enquiries fall inside is the aged home service range of $.10 to $1.50 a lead.
Can gutter cleaning leads ever pay?
For a cleaning-only business, rarely at market prices. For an exterior contractor who also sells guards, fascia and roof work, they are a cheap route into larger jobs.
When should I buy gutter leads?
Ahead of the autumn leaf fall rather than during it, and tightly filtered by area, because drive time is the whole margin on a small ticket.
Why are gutter leads bundled with other trades?
Because the ticket is too small to carry a priced product of its own. Sellers put them inside a wider home-services feed instead.