StashGrade for gutters
Margin per linear foot. Guard attach rate. See where every foot of gutter lands.
Gutter installation, guards, repairs, cleaning. The revenue per linear foot varies by job type and the margin spread between cleaning and new install is wider than most owners track. StashGrade reads it from your QuickBooks.
Where gutter companys leak money
Linear footage measured from the ground, not the roofline
Ground measurement on a complex roofline underestimates installed footage by 10-20%. When the bid is priced per foot at a tight margin and the actual installed footage is 15% more than the bid, the difference comes out of gross margin on every job. The books show it as labor and material overruns, not as a measurement problem.
Guard installation margin eroded by specialty roof types
Gutter guard jobs on standard fascia install in an hour. On metal roofs, tile roofs, and homes with irregular fascia, the same footage can take three hours. The per-foot guard price doesn't change. The labor does. Guard jobs are high-margin on paper and often average-margin in practice.
Multi-story jobs priced like single-story
Three-story work requires scaffolding or lift rental, longer setup time, and more risk. Those costs often get absorbed into general labor rather than billed as job-level surcharges. The margin on a 3-story commercial building looks the same as a ranch house if the accounting doesn't separate them.
Cleaning revenue not tracked separately
Gutter cleaning runs 70-80% margin. It's also the highest-volume recurring revenue most gutter companies have. When cleaning revenue and installation revenue land in the same income account, the high-margin recurring work subsidizes margin analysis of installation, and owners don't see how much of their profit comes from maintenance.
What the readout looks like
Margin by job type on a sample gutter company P&L:
| Segment | Gross margin | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Cleaning & maintenance | 74% | labor only, minimal material |
| Gutter guards | 57% | high add-on margin on standard roofs |
| Repair / partial replacement | 54% | |
| New installation (residential) | 49% | |
| Multi-story / commercial | 31% | lift rental compresses margin |
Sample data from a seeded demo company.