Fascia and soffit repair cost

By Gutter Report Editorial. Last reviewed August 2026. How we research this.

In brief

1.0What fascia and soffit are, and how a gutter rots them

Stand at the curb and look at the roof edge. The flat board running along it is the fascia. It closes off the ends of the rafters. Every gutter hanger, spike or bracket on your house is fastened into that board. Classic Gutter Systems calls for fascia brackets every 32 inches, so a 40 foot run hangs on about 15 brackets, each one screwed into that board. That count is our arithmetic on the published 32 inch spacing, not a figure the supplier prints.

Now walk under the eave and look up. That panel is the soffit. It usually has vents or holes in it. Those vents pull cool air into the attic, which is why a blocked or missing soffit shows up later as an attic moisture problem.

Here is the chain that brings most readers to this page. A gutter fills with leaves. Water backs up and spills over the inside edge, not the front. That water runs straight down the fascia and into the soffit. Wood stays wet, and wet wood rots. Angi has a price line for exactly this, listing fascia and soffit repair from water damage caused by clogged gutters or poor roof drainage at $10 to $23 per linear foot. That is the most expensive kind of gutter cleaning you can skip.

Fascia is what the gutter hangs on, so how it is hung decides how much load that board takes. Hangers and spacing cover that, and the weight side of it depends on the material: copper and steel are considerably heavier per foot than aluminum.

2.0Fascia cost per foot

Read the two labor rows again. Angi's labor line alone, at $6 to $20, sits above HomeGuide's entire installed price of $5 to $12. That is the sharpest contradiction in this data, and no amount of averaging fixes it. HomeGuide does note one thing that helps explain its low number: its $5 to $12 includes taking your existing gutters off and putting them back.

The $6 to $20 row marked derived is our arithmetic, not a printed figure. Angi lists 50 feet of fascia repair at $300 to $1,000. Divide, and you get $6 to $20 per foot. That ratio holds on every row of Angi's table, and it lands exactly on Angi's stated labor rate, which hints that the table may be labor only.

3.0Soffit cost per foot

Overhang width explains most of that $4 to $22 spread. A one foot soffit is one board wide. A two foot soffit is twice the material and twice the fiddling, and HomeGuide's own split shows it: $4 to $11 against $8 to $22. Measure your overhang before you judge a quote.

Treat the This Old House soffit figures with care. The same page says $17 per foot and about $4,250 for a one story house in its summary, then says about $10 per foot and $2,500 total in its own questions section. It also prints a unit, "per linear sq ft", that does not exist. We print the numbers because they were published, and we lean on HomeGuide's $4 to $22 instead.

4.0Whole job totals by length

Per foot rates only matter once you multiply. Two publishers give length tables for fascia, and Angi runs higher on every row it lists: about 1.4 times higher at the bottom of each range and about 1.8 times higher at the top. That is our division of the two tables below.

Doing both parts at once is $9 to $34 per linear foot at HomeGuide. Watch the assumption underneath any headline total. HomeGuide models a one story house at 100 to 200 linear feet and lands on $500 to $2,400 for fascia. This Old House models about 250 linear feet at a much higher rate and lands on $1,750 to $10,000. Two things differ there, the footage and the rate, so the gap is not one publisher being wrong by four times.

5.0Material prices by type

These are material only, before any labor. Fascia is thicker stock than soffit, so the same material costs more as fascia.

6.0Labor, minimums, permits and hard to reach eaves

Three hourly rates from two publishers span $40 to $120, and two of them are Angi disagreeing with itself across two pages. So do not price this job by the hour. Price it by the foot and use the hourly rate only to sanity check a small repair.

The access uplift of 7% to 15% appears on both Angi pages, which means one source cited twice, not two sources agreeing. Whether a permit applies at all is a question for your local building department, since fascia is often treated as a repair.

The minimum fee of $150 to $300 is the line most readers trip over. A single soft foot of fascia is a $10 job by This Old House's flat repair rate and a $150 to $300 visit by the fee. If you have one bad spot, bundle it with a gutter cleaning or an inspection in the same trip.

7.0When you do not need the whole job

We do not sell gutters and we do not install them, so here is the part that costs us money to write. Most people reading this do not need 200 feet of new fascia.

Rot is usually local. It starts where the water sits, which is under a clogged corner or a spilling downspout. Angi prices 50 square feet of soffit repair at $75 to $150 and wood fascia repair at $1 to $3 per foot. Set that against a full replacement at $5 to $12 per foot at HomeGuide, or $7 to $22 at Angi, and the spot fix wins easily.

Stained is not rotted. Dark streaks and peeling paint are cosmetic until the wood goes soft. HomeGuide prices painting the eaves at $400 to $2,800 for a one story house. That is the cheap answer and it is worth ruling out first.

Press the board before you price anything. Push a screwdriver into the fascia behind the gutter, near a joint. If it stops, the wood is sound and your problem is the gutter, not the board. Go to gutter repair cost instead, where HomeGuide puts most fixes between $100 and $450.

Two things do point the other way. Soft wood over more than about a third of a run, where repair pricing closes on replacement pricing. And rot that has reached the rafter tails, which HomeGuide prices at $650 to $4,000 and Angi calls dry rot at $500 to $4,000. Those are real jobs and delay makes them bigger.

8.0The order of work, which matters more than the price

This is the whole reason a gutter site owns this page. Gutter hangers screw into fascia. If that wood is soft, the screws have nothing to bite. A new gutter hung on rotted fascia will sag, pull away and spill again, and you will have paid for gutters twice.

So the sequence is fixed. Fix the wood, then hang the gutter. Never the other way around.

Doing it in one visit is the money saver. HomeGuide states that its $5 to $12 fascia price already covers removing your gutters and putting them back. That removal labor is being paid for either way, so new gutters fitted at the same time skip a second tear off. Dropcurb, a weaker source we use only as a cross check, reports $6 to $10 per foot added to a gutter removal when the fascia behind it is rotted, which sits inside HomeGuide's range.

Ask for the fascia and the gutter on one written quote, priced as separate lines. See all gutter costs for the other side of that number, or run your footage through the cost calculator.

Rev

RevAugust 2026

Source

SourceHomeGuide, Angi, This Old House (read 2026-08-21)