Gutter installation cost
By Gutter Report Editorial. Last reviewed August 2026. How we research this.
In brief
Gutter installation runs $12 to $25 per linear foot. Most homes have 100 to 200 feet of roofline, so a whole house lands near $2,200 to $5,000. Material moves that number most. Vinyl is $8 to $12 a foot. Aluminum is $10 to $20. Seamless aluminum is $6 to $12. Copper is $25 to $40. Some things are billed on top. Downspouts cost $30 to $75 each, and a house needs four or five. Tearing off the old gutters adds $1 to $2 a foot. A second story adds $1 to $3 a foot. These are published rates, read in August 2026. The publishers do not agree with each other. HomeGuide puts a whole-house install at $2,200 to $5,000, and Fixr says $3,223. This page shows you where they split, rather than quietly averaging them. It also tells you when the honest answer is a repair, not this job.
Everything below is a published figure with a named source and a date. Where two publishers contradict each other, both numbers are printed and the conflict is named. That is the whole method, and it is in full on the methodology page.
What will gutters cost on your house?
Measure the run along your roofline, or pace it out. Every rate here is the same one the cost tables use.
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1.0Cost by material
This is the decision that moves the number most, so it comes first. Prices are installed, meaning materials and labor together, per linear foot of roofline.
| Material | Installed | 200 ft house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD / FT | USD | ||
| Vinyl | $8 to $12 | $1,600 to $2,400 | HomeGuide |
| Aluminum | $10 to $20 | $2,000 to $4,000 | HomeGuide |
| Seamless aluminum | $6 to $12 | $1,200 to $2,400 | HomeGuide |
| Galvanized steel | $5 to $20 | $1,000 to $4,000 | Fixr |
| Copper | $25 to $40 | $5,000 to $8,000 | HomeGuide and Fixr agree |
| Zinc | $35 to $45 | $7,000 to $9,000 | HomeGuide |
The 200 foot column is arithmetic on the per-foot rate, not a separately published figure, and it is there because per-foot prices are hard to feel. Measure your own roofline and the calculator above will do it properly.
Vinyl, $8 to $12
The budget option, sold in sections you can carry home. It is genuinely cheaper and it is genuinely worse: it becomes brittle in cold, it sags in heat if the hangers are too far apart, and every joint is a future leak. On a single-story house in a mild climate that is a reasonable trade. Under a steep roof in a freeze-thaw climate it is a false economy.
Aluminum, $10 to $20, and seamless aluminum, $6 to $12
Aluminum is what most houses get and it is the right default for most houses: it does not rust, it takes paint, and it is light enough to hang on ordinary fascia. Note that the seamless range sits below the sectional range in HomeGuide's own tables rather than above it, which is not what most people expect. Seamless is formed on site from a coil, so there is no per-section markup and no joint labor along the run.
Galvanized steel, $5 to $20
Stronger than aluminum and heavier, which matters where snow and ice load the run. The catch is rust: the zinc coating is what protects it, and once that is scratched through, the clock starts. Fixr's range is unusually wide because seamed and seamless galvanized are priced very differently.
Copper, $25 to $40, and zinc, $35 to $45
Architectural choices, priced accordingly, and both outlast the house they hang on. The National Association of Home Builders puts copper gutters past 50 years and copper downspouts at 100. If you are pricing copper you are usually doing it for how it looks and how long it lasts, and the running cost per year is not as bad as the sticker suggests.
Those are the prices. What each material actually is, how long it lasts and where it fails is a separate question, and each one has its own page: aluminum, copper, steel, vinyl, and the profiles they come in, K-style, half round and box.
2.0What gets charged on top
| Line item | Rate | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Downspouts, each installed | $30 to $75 | HomeGuide |
| Tear-off and haul-away, per foot | $1 to $2 | HomeAdvisor |
| Second-story access, per foot | $1 to $3 | HomeGuide |
A typical house needs four to five downspouts. On our sourced rate that is $120 to $375 of the job, which is worth knowing before you read a quote that itemizes them.
Where the published numbers disagree, and what we do about it
This section exists because most cost pages quietly average their sources and present the result as a fact. These are the disagreements we found in the 2026 data.
The national average is contested. HomeGuide says $2,200 to $5,000 to install. Fixr says $3,223. Angi and HomeAdvisor both say $1,181. The last two are pricing replacement, not new installation, which explains most but not all of the gap. We use HomeGuide's range where a whole-house figure is needed, because it is an installation figure at a stated footage.
Tear-off is thin. HomeAdvisor is the only publisher we found that gives a per-foot rate. HomeGuide's all-in ceiling for the same work sits below HomeAdvisor's implied floor. We publish HomeAdvisor's rate and flag it as the least certain line on the page.
Downspout counts vary by a factor of three. Amerimax recommends one per 20 feet of run, the Copper Development Association and Berger both say 50, and This Old House says 60. Our calculator uses 40, the midpoint of the manufacturer and standards-body figures, and labels it as derived rather than published.
One widely repeated figure is simply false. A capacity claim of 1.2 gallons per linear foot for 5 inch K-style circulates on contractor sites. A 5 inch K-style's entire bounding box is about 18 square inches, and 1.2 gallons per foot would require 23. It is wrong by a factor of four to five, so it does not appear anywhere on this site.
Regional multipliers were left out on purpose. No guide we read publishes a regional multiplier we could reproduce. The ones circulating online trace back to AI-generated calculator sites with no source. Inventing one would have been easy and wrong.
3.0Price one part of the job
A whole-system number is the wrong tool for most questions. These price the pieces, each on the same sourced rates as the table above.
| Page | What it prices | Headline figure |
|---|---|---|
| Gutter cost per foot | The per-unit rate, by material, and what it leaves out | $5 to $45 per ft |
| Gutter replacement cost | Taking an old system off and hanging a new one | $1,181 average |
| Gutter repair cost | Seams, slope, sagging runs, holes | $275 average |
| Downspout installation cost | Per downspout, per foot, and how many a house needs | $30 to $75 each |
| Gutter guard cost | By guard type, and whether guards pay back at all | $3 to $45 per ft |
| Fascia and soffit repair cost | The board behind the gutter, and the rot that ends a job | $5 to $22 per ft |
4.0You may not need this job
Most people pricing a whole new system have one specific problem, not a system at the end of its life. Aluminum lasts 20 to 30 years and copper past 50, so age alone rarely justifies replacement.
A leaking joint is a reseal. Overflow in heavy rain is often slope or an undersized downspout rather than a failed gutter. A sagging section is usually hangers. The average gutter repair is $275 against a replacement measured in thousands. If any of those describe your house, price the repair first.
We can say that plainly because we do not sell gutters and we do not install them. Telling you to spend less costs us a lead that was never going to close and is the reason to believe the rest of the page.
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Common questions
How much does it cost to install gutters on an average house?
HomeGuide puts a whole-house job at $2,200 to $5,000, working from $12 to $25 per linear foot across all materials on a house with 100 to 200 feet of roofline. Fixr publishes a $3,223 national average. Angi and HomeAdvisor both publish $1,181, but they are pricing replacement rather than new installation, which is why their figure sits so much lower. All three are real published numbers and they do not agree.
What is the cheapest gutter material?
Vinyl, at $8 to $12 a foot installed. It is also the shortest lived and the least tolerant of heat, cold and ladder knocks. Seamless aluminum at $6 to $12 a foot is the value that most houses actually want, because it has no joints along the run and joints are where gutters fail.
Is seamless worth it over sectional?
Usually yes, and the reason is not cosmetic. Every joint in a sectional run is a seam that can open, and resealing seams is the most common gutter repair there is. A seamless run is formed on site in one piece, so the only joints are at corners and outlets. HomeGuide prices seamless aluminum at $6 to $12 a foot, which overlaps the sectional aluminum range rather than sitting above it.
Why do quotes vary so much on the same house?
Because most of the price is labor and access, not metal. Two stories adds $1 to $3 a foot. Fascia that has rotted has to be repaired before anything hangs off it. A house with many corners takes longer than a plain rectangle of the same footage. A quote at the top of the range is not automatically a bad quote, but it should come with a reason you can point at.
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- RevAugust 2026
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- SourceHomeGuide, Fixr, HomeAdvisor, Angi (read 2026-08-21)