Gutters

Gutter work is small money compared with a roof, which is exactly why it is easy to overpay: few people get a second quote for a $200 job.

The jobs

Page	The short answer	What it adds
Cleaning	$191 to $529 a visit	the per-foot rate triples from one storey to three, and that, not the average, sets your price
Repair	$195 to $625	what each material costs to fix, and why seamless costs more than sectional
Installation	about $3,200	two independent sources agree almost exactly, and a third now disagrees
Replacement	$1,700 to $4,699	the removal line that reconciles two ranges which barely overlap
Downspouts	about $8 a foot	four published figures that look comparable and measure four different things
Cost per linear foot	$7 to $13 in aluminum	one publisher gives three different averages for the same 200 feet, lined up side by side
A 2,000 sq ft house	about $3,200	the one house size every guide prices, with the whole published picture in one place
How often to clean	twice a year	what 1,000 homeowners actually do, which is not what the advice says
Doing it yourself	$400 to $1,200 saved	the sources disagree, and the disagreement tracks exactly what you are installing

Sizes and styles

Page	The short answer	What it adds
What size do I need	5 inches, 6 for big roofs	the downspout sizes that have to match, and why 5-inch is the cheapest size to own
Half-round or K-style	K-style, for most houses	K-style carries more than twice the water, and the price gap is thinner than everyone says

The materials

Page	The short answer	What it adds
Aluminum gutters	$7 to $13 a foot	two sources publish identical tables, so they are not two confirmations
Seamless gutters	about $1,984 for 200 feet	one publisher gives $1,984 and $3,200 for the same job four days apart, and we work out which applies
Zinc gutters	$16 to $29 a foot	two sources land $8 apart at the top and $1,192 apart at the bottom
Copper gutters	$20 to $40 a foot	six published figures lined up, the band they share, and whether 50 years pays for itself

Gutter guards

Page	The short answer	What it adds
Guards in general	$69 to $7,941	why two credible sources differ by a factor of fifteen, and how to tell which one your quote is
LeafFilter	$8,344 for 200 feet	the 2026 figure sits entirely above the older published band, and we say what that probably means
Leafguard	$7,919 for 200 feet	three separate sources within half a percent, and the new gutters hidden inside the price

The calculator

Gutter cost calculator builds a line-item range from your own footage, material, storeys, downspouts and guards, and shows the source on every line. No regional guesswork: we left that out because none of our sources publishes gutter labor by region.

Where the numbers come from

Every figure on these pages comes from Fixr, whose gutter guides were updated on 31 January 2025, This Old House, whose gutter guides were updated between April and October 2026, or Bob Vila, whose gutter guides date from June and November 2023. Each page names which, down to the specific guide.

Where sources disagree we say so rather than averaging them away. That happens most sharply on gutter guards, where one source is pricing the covers and the other is pricing a branded company fitting a whole house, and on seamless gutters, where one publisher contradicts itself within a week. This Old House publishes five different gutter cost tables across five of its own guides; our cost per linear foot page sets them out in one place.

Where a source takes a figure from a company that sells gutter work, we name that too. This Old House attributes its cleaning average to LeafFilter, carries an advertiser disclosure on its gutter guard pages, and sources several of its lifespan claims to gutter companies rather than to an independent body. Bob Vila's figures come from Angi and HomeAdvisor.

On review

Meriton Rexhepi is the designated reviewer for this section, as someone who cleans and repairs gutters as part of his exterior cleaning business.

He has not yet reviewed the pages above. They were published in October 2026 on the strength of their sources alone. When he has read a page, that page will carry his name as reviewer and we will say so here. Until then, treat these as carefully sourced rather than trade-checked. We would rather tell you that than put a practitioner's name on something he has not seen.