Gutter cost per foot

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

In brief

1.0Installed cost per foot, by material

These are installed rates. Each one covers the gutter itself, the hangers, the fasteners and the labor to hang the run. HomeGuide also prints $2,200 to $5,000 for a whole average home, without saying how many feet that is. Divide it by the 200 feet This Old House uses for a 2,000 square foot home and you get $11 to $25 a foot. That division is ours, and it mixes two publishers, so treat it as a rough check rather than a figure. Note the low end lands a dollar under HomeGuide's own $12 floor.

Note that the all-material band sits above four of the six material rows. Read the all-material rate as a whole-job rate, with corners, end caps and downspouts folded in. Read a single-material rate as the price of the straight run.

Those rows are the short version of each material. The full picture, including how long each one lasts and what it weighs on a hanger, is on its own page: aluminum, copper, galvanized steel and vinyl. Seamless belongs in a different column: it is a forming method, not a material, which is why it appears here as seamless aluminum.

2.0Where the publishers disagree, printed in full

This is the part other pages hide. Six publishers price the same job, and they do not agree. The spread is about five times at the top end. A single averaged number would look tidy and would be worth less to you than the real range.

Read the last row with care. This Old House publishes no per-foot rate by material at all. Those figures are derived: its own totals for 200 feet, divided by 200. We label them derived because they are ours, not its.

Three warnings sit inside this table. HomeGuide's steel row lumps galvanized and stainless together. Angi's table never says whether it is material or installed. Angi's matching seamless table is material only, so treat the Angi row as unclear rather than low. Modernize prints a vinyl top end above its own zinc top end, which cannot be right.

Vinyl is the least steady material in the whole set. Across these publishers the credible band is roughly $3 to $12 a foot. Zinc splits the field into two camps: a $10 to $30 camp and a $30 to $50 camp, with no middle ground. If you are pricing zinc, get two quotes and expect them to be far apart.

3.0What a per-foot price includes, and what it does not

A published rate covers the run of gutter. These line items sit outside it, and each one is priced by a named publisher.

The removal row is the useful one. HomeGuide charges it by the foot and Angi charges it as a flat fee. On a 200 foot house the two land close together. On a 20 foot run they do not, and the flat fee becomes most of the bill.

Hangers are inside the installed rate, but it helps to know how many there are. Englert, a gutter manufacturer, plans one hanger for every 2 feet of gutter. Its own worked example is 180 feet of gutter and about 90 hangers.

4.0Material only versus installed

This is where most readers get a number well under what they will pay. How far under depends on the material, and there is no single multiplier. In the table below, vinyl material is roughly a third of vinyl installed, copper material is a little over half, and zinc material is the same number as zinc installed.

Look at the zinc row. Angi prices zinc material at $35 to $45 a foot. HomeGuide prices zinc installed at $35 to $45 a foot. Same numbers, different meaning. Anyone who copies one into the other has lost the whole labor cost.

Fixr's material column is not stock price either. Actual supplier stock runs lower. Seamless Gutter Supply lists 6 inch aluminum K-style seamless gutter in .032 gauge at $5.27 a foot, and 6 inch copper K-style in 16 oz at $20.68 a foot. Classic Gutter Systems lists 6 inch copper K-style in 20 oz at $16.23 a foot. Fixr's "material" evidently bundles hangers, outlets, sealant and fabrication, so do not read it as a price tag at a supply house.

5.0Seamless costs more per foot, and by how much

The last row is derived. Today's Homeowner publishes totals for 200 feet, and dividing those by 200 gives the per-foot figures shown. That derived premium of $3 to $5 a foot matches HomeGuide's own stated premium of $3 to $5 or more per linear foot almost exactly. Two publishers, two methods, the same answer. That is the strongest agreement anywhere in this data.

Fixr is the outlier at $8 to $9 a foot. That is roughly triple the others, and its aluminum page is the oldest one read. Fixr prices seamless by material on a separate page too. Vinyl $6 to $11. Galvanized steel $12 to $20. Aluminum $14 to $20. Galvalume $24 to $30. Copper $29 to $40. Zinc $40 to $50. It is the only publisher found that prices Galvalume at all.

6.0Turning cost per foot into a whole-house number

Measure the roof edge where gutter hangs, in feet. That is your number. This Old House uses 200 feet for a 2,000 square foot home, which is a reasonable starting point if you have not measured yet. Then check your multiplication against what the publishers print for the same 200 feet.

The copper row is the widest in this table, $3,310 to $7,566, so do not read it as agreement. One narrower agreement inside it is worth naming. Fixr prices copper by project size on its dedicated copper page: $1,250 to $2,000 at 50 feet, $2,500 to $4,000 at 100 feet, $3,750 to $6,000 at 150 feet, $5,000 to $8,000 at 200 feet and $6,250 to $10,000 at 250 feet. Its 200 foot figure of $5,000 to $8,000 is exactly HomeGuide's. That is Fixr's copper page, not the Fixr main page that supplies the $3,491 to $6,352 in the table above. The two Fixr pages disagree with each other.

Add your extras after the multiplication, not before. Tear-off, the second story surcharge and a half-round profile all come from the table in section 3.0. Our gutter cost calculator runs the same arithmetic with your own footage, material and story count. The cost hub holds every other cost page on this site.

7.0When per-foot math gives you the wrong answer

Here is the part that costs us leads. On a small job, cost per foot is the wrong unit, and using it will make every quote you get look like a rip-off.

Setup does not shrink with the run. Homewyse is the only source read that publishes its method, and it prices from a reference quantity of 64 linear feet with a two hour minimum labor charge attached. That minimum is charged whether the crew hangs 64 feet or 10. No publisher prints what the rate becomes on a short run, so we will not put a number on it. The direction is certain: the fewer feet you spread a fixed minimum across, the higher your cost per foot.

Fixed fees swamp short runs. Angi charges old gutter removal as a flat $150 to $300. HomeGuide charges $1 to $2 a foot for the same work. On 20 feet, the per-foot method says $20 to $40 and the flat fee says $150 to $300. Both are real prices. The difference is not markup, it is the truck and the trip.

You may not need new gutter at all. If one run leaks at a joint, sags, or holds water after rain, that is a repair, not a replacement. Angi prices simple repairs at $2 to $7 a foot. HomeGuide prices replacing a section at $6 to $17 a foot. Both are far below any full installation rate on this page. Read gutter repair cost first, and gutter replacement cost only if the whole system is done.

We can say this plainly because we do not sell gutters and we do not install them. On a short job, stop doing per-foot math. Ask for the total instead, and ask what else can be done on the same visit. No publisher defines where short begins. Our own rule of thumb is anything under about 30 feet, and it is a rule of thumb, not a published figure.

Rev

RevAugust 2026

Source

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