03/20/2026
Celebrating 45 Years of business servicing the Prescott and Quad City areas. As a basketball coach, Travis Stedman works with tall people. But none of them are quite tall enough to do gutter work without the aid of a ladder. Stedman and his wife Billi Jo own and operate Arizona Seamless Gutters in Prescott, and ladders and the inherent safety concerns are part of the business. “When doing interviews and you ask somebody if they’re scared of heights, they’ll say, ‘Yeah I’m fine,’” Billi Jo said. “And then they get out there and they say, ‘Oh, I didn’t know this is what you meant.’” While a house roof might be a dozen feet off the ground, some buildings require gutters 40 to 80 feet in the air. They have rented a 120-foot boom on occasion and emphasize safety to their employees. “It takes a special person,” Billi Jo said.“It takes a certain kind of crazy,” Travis amended. Michael Harrington, 40, has worked for the company on and off since he was 18, he said. He confirms that going up big ladders and hanging off the side of a building in a harness “is sometimes a little scary.” Arizona Seamless Gutters has been around for 45 years, and Harrington said that longevity speaks for the quality of the company. The Stedmans have run it for the last 14 years. Prior to that it was owned and operated by Jack Rose and his family, they said. A sign at the business, located at 703 6th St. says, “Aloha Spirit Required Here.” This contrasts slightly with a picture on the wall of the late basketball coach Bobby Knight hurling a chair across the court. “Good or bad, every day is different,” Billi Jo said. “You have a plan, and you don’t always accomplish that plan, but it makes life exciting.” Travis Stedman is the boys’ basketball coach at Prescott High School. That job, often quite stressful, requires many hours during the season. He’s quick to give his wife of 20 years credit for shouldering the business burden during those four to five winter months when he’s trying to motivate young men, improve their skills and win games. It helps that Billi Jo is good with numbers and adept at the accounting aspects. “There’s always more to learn,” she said.The business has expanded since the pandemic and the ice storm a few winters ago, they said, adding trucks and employees. In addition to gutters, they do some metal fabrication work. Currently Arizona Seamless Gutters employs about 12 to 18 people. The intrepid workers must be skillful in operating the machine that attaches the gutters, which are made of aluminum or Galvalume, a type of steel. “Doing gutters is kind of an art,” Billi Jo said. “If you don’t have it just right it will leak. There’s a lot of attention to detail that it takes.” People are the best thing about running the business, they said. And also the worst, depending on who they are dealing with. They plan to continue looking down on the world — in a good way.
