Barnes Boyle and his sons Ad, Davis, and Austin are the proud local owners of the Brothers that just do Gutters of Columbia, South Carolina. Family business is a Boyle tradition, and they are passionate about working together to provide a vital service to homeowners in their local community.
The Boyle family business is —well— family business. Barnes graduated from Wofford College and joined his father in working in the family auto business, which had been founded by his grandfather ins 1931. For over twenty years, he sold some of the world’s most sought-after auto brands such as Toyota, Cadillac, and Mazda. In 2008, he sold the successful car dealership to focus on the development of Boyle Automotive group, which specializes in pre-owned cars. Barnes has been married for almost forty years and has four sons, two granddaughters, and two more grandkids on the way.
Davis and Austin are identical twins who both graduated from The Citadel on football scholarships. Davis has been in the insurance industry for seven years, while Austin has worked in medical device sales after working in the insurance business after college. Ad Boyle is the oldest of Barnes’ sons who holds a degree in business from Wofford College and is currently working in the insurance industry for over fourteen years, handling group benefits packages for company insurance plans.
The Boyles are very involved in their local church, and when they aren’t working to find their clients the best gutter solutions for their homes, you’ll find them spending time together with their families at the beach.
In 1999 Ken Parsons had just left the teaching industry and started his own gutter contractor company under the name Waterfall Seamless Gutters. In 2002 Ken’s younger brother, Ryan Parsons, accepted a job on the truck with Ken after the Graphic Design company he was working for crashed. In 2006 the Brothers briefly changed their name to Water-flow Gutter Solutions before finally becoming “The Brothers that just do Gutters” in 2009. The name we all know and love came from a radio ad the Brothers ran just a couple years prior to the change. Everyone who heard it liked it so much they thought it was the company name so Ken and Ryan stopped fighting it and adopted the name. With the name change came a few title changes as well. We decided we no longer wanted to be salesman, presidents or owners but rather Solutionists©, which embodied what we represent to our clients. Ken Parsons was re-entitled Senior Solutionist©, and Ryan Parsons became Chief Solutionist©.
Being in the gutter contractor business for over 15 years was an effort of adaptation and determination. We have been able to be successful for so long because we made our main focus the customer. The Brothers that just do Gutters offer a wide variety of installations, cleaning and repairs in a small niche industry of seamless rain gutters and leaf guards. We have been able to grow the reliability of our services and offer only the best products by focusing all our effort on gutter systems and guards.
Our mantra, “Reinventing Contractor Service™” is the phrase we live by in all areas of our business, every day. The story of The Brothers that just do Gutters began with hard work and a dream to be a community-loved contractor. We wanted to reinvent how clients experience contractor services and provide a level of customer service and reliability that was lacking in our industry.
Along the way, we had to learn to move at the speed of business and invent many new methods never before implemented in the contractor field. Meeting our goal of being a five-star contractor and reinventing contractor service meant focusing on every detail of the job. By creating a unique experience with the homeowner, investing in our employees, sourcing the best products, and creating training methods for publishing every review a homeowner made on our independent review services, we started to rise above the rest.