Q. Describe the most common types of jobs you do for your clients.
A. Alloy Gutter Company has been committed to serving Michigan contractors since 1976. Our business is built on quality workmanship, great customer service, and the best material available. We are equipped to handle all your installation needs, from a complete exterior renovation, to a minor downspout repair. We specialize in seamless gutter manufacturing and installation.
Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A. Here at Alloy Gutter, we understand that this is a tough business. From the difficulty in job-training, the danger of the actual installs, to the competitive pricing in order to compete and the fluctuation in the cost of insurance, fuel, and material – we understand completely and deal with the same issues.
We are also aware of the complexity of reconciling customer, contractor, and employee satisfaction. Alloy Gutter has been refining its’ skills, craft, and business practices since 1976. We know the issues that are common in the industry – padded footage, stolen leads – and we have established procedures to ensure that our business operates with the utmost integrity and concern for our contractors.
We also work to ensure that each and every job is approached with pride and the hope of success for those we service.
Alloy Gutter approaches the business with integrity - striving to be team players, hoping to build successful, long lasting relationships with contractors.
Q. If you were a customer, what do you wish you knew about your trade? Any inside secrets to share?
A. Quality
• We employ full-time installers who are experts in their field
• We perform quality checks year-round
Integrity
• Our crews turn in a complete footage breakdown on every job
• If we overcharge you, we will pay you back double the difference
Q. What important information should buyers have thought through before seeking you out?
A. Installation companies often are viewed as trades that garner no respect. That’s why we are able to poke fun at Phil Hourly and Joe Piecework. We all know what it can be like to work with an “hourly” guy who has no incentive to work quickly and efficiently. “Piecework” guys on the other hand will get the job done; it just might not be pretty.
Q. Do you have a favorite story from your work?
A. I’ll be honest. I used to be one of the biggest critics of leaf protection systems. I thought that they were over-priced, ineffective, ugly, and completely superfluous.
Until I bought my own home and cleaning the gutters became my responsibility.
I live in a small home; however it’s surrounded by trees. As pine needles, helicopters, leaves, walnuts, birds’ nests, tennis balls and all sorts of other interesting accessories collected in my gutters, it didn’t take long before they were full of water and overflowing with rancid, brown-colored ooze.
So my Saturday would look a little something like this: Haul the ladder out, strategically and carefully wrestle it around trees, shrubs, electrical meters, decks, and walkways, begin removing a copious amount of black smelly gutter muck from the gutters and downspouts, and running a garden hose up the ladder to spray out as much of the debris as possible. (By this time an audience of half a dozen or so neighborhood kids would be standing beneath my ladder, watching with particular interest). By the end of the process, I’ve been dive bombed by angry, overly protective mother birds, nearly fallen off the ladder, and covered myself from head to toe in gutter muck. (I suppose it is entertaining for the kids). Now every time I reach for the ladder, I hear a neighbor kid yell, “HEY EVERYBODY, HE’S GETTING THE LADDER OUT!”
It gets worse. This is a process that requires constant attention throughout the year. To ensure that your gutters are draining properly, they need to be cleaned out on a consistent basis. It doesn’t take but a handful of leaves (or 1 rogue tennis ball) to clog your downspout outlet. One clogged outlet could result in a basement full of water or washed out landscaping.
Turns out that leaf protection is quite functional and cost effective. We offer a wide range of leaf protection products, all of them effective, affordable, and zero maintenance products.
