The Gutter Cleaning Pricing Calculator Pack: Seven linked calculators, every formula checked by recalculation

Seven calculators for pricing gutter cleaning from your own year, not from someone else's rate card: the hourly floor once the truck, ladders and insurance are earned in a season of working months, a price per linear foot for one-, two- and three-story houses, a trip cost and minimum charge, downspout flushing and gutter guard add-ons, debris disposal, a fall and spring maintenance plan against one-off cleanings, and the number of houses a route day holds and what it makes. Start with sheet 1. In the worked example the floor is $50.00 a billed hour and a two-story foot of gutter is $0.60. Every figure is an example for you to overwrite; none of it is a claim about what gutter cleaning sells for. These are estimates, not financial advice. Every formula was recalculated and checked against an independent implementation before this shipped.

What is in it

7 calculators, one per sheet. Overwrite the blue cells with your own numbers and everything else follows. Nothing is locked, there are no macros, and it opens in Excel, Numbers, LibreOffice and Google Sheets.

• Hourly floor rate: What must a billed hour bring in when the truck, ladders and insurance are paid for all year but the work comes in season?
• Price per foot by story: What price per linear foot of gutter covers your floor rate on a one-, two- and three-story house?
• Trip cost and minimum: What does driving out and setting up cost, what is your minimum, and what does the whole house come to?
• Downspouts and guards: What should downspout flushing and a gutter guard install add to the ticket?
• Debris disposal: What does bagging and hauling away the debris cost, and what should the haul-away line be?
• Maintenance plan vs one-off: Does a fall-and-spring plan at a discount earn more than one-off cleanings at full price?
• Route day: How full can a route day get, and what does the day make above your floor?

Every formula was checked

This pack contains 67 formulas. Before it was published, every one of them was recalculated by a spreadsheet engine and compared against an independent implementation of the same arithmetic written in Python. All 67 agreed to within a cent, and the workbook carries a Verification sheet saying so.

That is an unusual thing to be able to claim about a spreadsheet, and it is the main reason to buy this one rather than download a free template. A formula that looks right and is wrong is worse than no formula at all, because you will act on it.

What each calculator assumes

There is a sheet listing this, because a calculator that hides its assumptions is just a number generator:

• A floor, not a market price: it is what you need, not what a customer will pay. Income tax and self-employment tax are not computed; include them in the income figure if you want them covered. The off-season months earn nothing here; work you do in them (snow, lights, pressure washing) would lower the floor. The unbilled hours are the same every week.
• The per-foot price covers time on the gutters only, at your floor rate. Driving to the house, setting up ladders and the minimum charge are on sheet 3. The story multiplier is one figure per height; a steep roof or a heavy clog is extra time you can price as a higher multiplier.
• One house per trip. When houses share a route, the drive shrinks: sheet 7 prices a full route day. The driving here is the same driving counted as unbilled on sheet 1; pricing it into the job bills some of it back.
• Add-ons are sold on a cleaning visit, so they carry no trip or setup cost of their own. A guard install on its own visit should add the cost of showing up from sheet 3. Guards are priced on material and your time only; any warranty you offer on them is not costed.
• Debris volume scales with feet of gutter. Disposal is charged per load and each job pays its share by bags. The handling minutes are separate from the cleaning time priced on sheet 2; if your per-foot rate already includes bagging, set them to 0.
• A plan visit takes the same time on site as a one-off. The plan's saving comes from the route travel figure you enter: if plan customers are not near each other, set it equal to the one-off travel cost. Marketing to win each customer is not costed.
• Every house on the route takes the same time and pays the same average ticket. Your own hours are costed at the sheet 1 floor, so the profit shown is on top of the income you set there. A house that runs long pushes the last one off the day.

What this is not

Not financial, tax or legal advice, and not a recommendation to buy, sell, borrow or sign anything. These are calculators: they show what a choice costs, not which choice is right for you. Where a published rate or threshold is used it is the one current when the pack was built; those change, the arithmetic does not.

Honest about the format

One .xlsx workbook, 7 calculator sheets plus Start Here, Assumptions and Verification. Not a PDF, not a physical product, not a Notion template. Available immediately after purchase; nothing ships.

Refunds

If this isn't what you expected, email me within 30 days and I'll refund you in full. No need to explain. Because it's an instant download I can't take the file back, so I'd rather you just had your money back.