Local bloke.
Local roofs.
No nonsense.
That Gutter Guy is a Hunter Valley business run by people who live here, work here, and run into their customers at the shops. That tends to keep a tradesman honest — and it travels well, from Muswellbrook down to the lower North Shore.
Our story
It started with one ladder and a lot of blocked gutters
That Gutter Guy began the way most good trade businesses do — one person, one ute, and a growing list of neighbours who’d been let down by someone who quoted, didn’t turn up, and never called back.
The first jobs were straight gutter cleans around Cessnock and Aberdare. What became obvious fast was how much was going unnoticed while nobody was up there. Cracked pointing along the ridge. Rusted-out valley irons. Solar arrays with a pigeon colony living underneath them. Homeowners were paying for a clean and quietly sitting on a much bigger problem.
So the business grew into what the roofs actually needed: gutter guard so the clean didn’t have to happen every year, solar cleaning and bird proofing so systems produced what they were sold to produce, and full roofing — restorations, replacements, leak detection and repairs — so a customer didn’t need three different trades pointing fingers at each other.
Four years into the roofing side and the map has grown with it. The Hunter Valley is still home ground, but we’re now across Newcastle and Port Stephens week in and week out, and we run down to the Central Coast and North Sydney by arrangement. Same crew, same standard, longer drive.
What hasn’t changed is the way the work gets done. The full run cleared, flushed and flow-tested. Photographed from up top so you can see it. Quoted in writing, and the invoice matches the quote. If a job doesn’t need doing yet, we say so — and we’ve talked plenty of people out of work they were ready to pay for.
Hunter Valley based
Core service area covers the Hunter Valley, Newcastle and Port Stephens. We also service the Central Coast and North Sydney by arrangement.

Meet the owner
Reuben Chivers
Owner-operator. He quotes your job, he’s on your roof, and he’s the one you ring if something isn’t right afterwards.
There’s no sales team here and no subcontractor chain. The person who walks your property and writes the quote is the person doing the work — which means nothing gets promised on site that can’t be delivered on the roof.
It also means you get a straight answer. If your roof has ten good years left, you’ll hear that instead of a restoration quote. If it’s genuinely failing, you’ll get told that plainly, with photos, and you’re welcome to take our quote to two other people before you decide.
Reachable on 0450 769 378 — and if he’s up a ladder when you ring, he’ll call you back the same day.
Credentials
Insured, registered, accountable
The boring paperwork that means you’re protected if something goes wrong on your property.
Public liability insurance
$15 million cover for work carried out on your property. Certificate of currency available on request before we start — ask for it, and ask any other quote for theirs too.
Registered Australian business
ABN 13 232 557 179, verifiable on the public register. Tax invoices issued for every job — which matters if you’re claiming on an investment property.
Height safety trained
Working-at-heights trained and equipped — harnesses, anchors and proper roof-access gear. Nobody balances a ladder on your garden bed and hopes.
Verify our ABN on the Australian Business Register. Roofing work requiring a licensed builder is carried out under appropriate NSW licensing — ask us for details relating to your specific job.
How we work
What you can hold us to
- A written quote, itemised, with photos of anything we’re recommending
- The invoice matches the quote — variations get approved by you first, in writing
- A booked time window, and a message when we’re on the way
- Gutters, valleys and downpipes all flushed and flow-tested before we leave
- Before and after photos from roof level, sent the same day
- An honest “this can wait” when the work genuinely isn’t urgent
- Workmanship guaranteed — if something we did isn’t right, we come back
- One point of contact from quote to invoice. No call centre.
Free Quote
Give us a call and see if we sound like the right fit.
No script, no pressure. Describe what your roof is doing and you’ll get a straight opinion — even if that opinion is that you don’t need us yet.