Gutter Installation Cost (2026) — Typical US Range

Installing seamless aluminum gutters and downspouts on a common US single-family house — about 150 to 200 linear feet of eave, the old gutters taken off, hangers into fascia that is still sound, and splash blocks at the ground — often clusters around $1,200–$2,500. That is the typical gutter installation cost, and the seamless gutter installation cost, for that house. Gutter replacement cost is the same band when the old runs come off and new seamless aluminum goes up. The wider national spread, about $400–$7,000, covers a short sectional repair at the low end and a larger or two-story house, steel, gutter guards, or a run of fascia repair at the high end. Copper, a full fascia and soffit replacement, or a roof replacement can clear that spread. These are typical planning ranges, not a survey and not a quote.

Gutters carry water off the roof edge so it does not run down the siding or pond against the foundation. They are not part of a shingle price unless the roof bid says they are. This page is the gutter job. The roof replacement guide is an asphalt roof. The metal roof guide is a metal roof. Read them as scopes that often share a week.

The coil price is not the job. Aluminum gutter coil can look cheap by the foot. The bid is the truck that forms the run, the hangers, the downspouts, the tear-off, and the haul-away. Living area is the wrong measurement. A one-story ranch and a two-story house with the same floor plan are not the same length of eave. Price the eaves you can walk, not a rate you saw on a forum.

The rows below are ways to read one job. They are not added together. The per-foot rows are installed prices for that material on a whole-house run: hangers, outlets, ordinary downspouts, and tear-off of one old set, on sound fascia, with no guards. The length rows are that job in seamless aluminum. A house of about 2,000 square feet is the living-area stand-in when you have not measured the eaves. One story and two stories are another reading of height, not a second bill on top of the length. Use an add-on row only when that line is actually extra.

Scope	Typical planning range
Vinyl sectional, per linear foot	$4–$8
Seamless aluminum, per linear foot	$8–$14
Steel, per linear foot	$12–$22
Copper, per linear foot	$30–$50
About 100 linear feet, seamless aluminum	$1,000–$1,700
About 150 linear feet, seamless aluminum	$1,200–$2,100
About 200 linear feet, seamless aluminum	$1,600–$2,800
About 250 linear feet, seamless aluminum	$2,000–$3,500
One story	$1,000–$2,200
Two stories	$1,800–$3,400
About 2,000 sq ft of living area	$1,200–$2,500
5-inch K-style seamless aluminum	$1,200–$2,500
6-inch K-style seamless aluminum	Often $1–$3 more per linear foot
Extra downspout	Often $100–$250
Gutter guards, per linear foot	Often $7–$15 extra
Fascia repair, per linear foot	Often $10–$25 extra
Old gutter removal	Included; often $1–$3 per linear foot if the bid leaves it out

Vinyl sectional is typically $4–$8 per linear foot. About 100 feet of vinyl is $400–$800. The floor of the wider spread, near $400, is the short end of that kind of job: one run the crew can reach from the ground. About 150 feet of vinyl is $600–$1,200. That can touch the floor of the aluminum band. It is still a different product: lengths joined on site, with a seam every stick. The low end of the vinyl rate is a simple one-story run in a lower-cost area. Corners move it up.

Seamless aluminum is typically $8–$14 per linear foot once the run is long enough that the truck is not the whole bid. About 150 linear feet at that rate is $1,200–$2,100, the length row, inside the typical band. About 200 linear feet is $1,600–$2,800. A straightforward 200-foot house, one story and few corners, often lands around $1,600–$2,500 and stays in the typical band. The same 200 feet with several corners, or a second story, is how the row reaches $2,800. About 250 linear feet is $2,000–$3,500. That house has left the typical band and still sits inside the wider spread.

About 100 linear feet of seamless aluminum is the $1,000–$1,700 row, not a straight $800. Multiplying 100 by $8 misses the trip, the corners, and the downspouts, which do not shrink in half when the eave does. A very simple 100-foot ground-level run in a lower-cost area can sit near $1,000. It is not a whole-house price someone discounted.

Steel is typically $12–$22 per linear foot. About 150 feet is $1,800–$3,300, which leaves the typical aluminum band. Compare steel with aluminum on the same feet when the house is near salt spray or the bid is for a heavier gutter. Copper is typically $30–$50 per linear foot. About 150 feet is $4,500–$7,500, so a copper house can sit inside the wider spread or clear $7,000. A short copper bay is the part that stays inside. Half-round and a custom profile usually leave the K-style aluminum rate. Price them as their own proposal.

One story is $1,000–$2,200. Two stories is $1,800–$3,400. The second story is longer downspouts and ladders or a lift. It is not a second copy of the one-story price. A long one-story ranch can cost more than a compact two-story house, because the length is the gutter. Use the story row or the length row. Adding them double-counts the job.

The cost to replace gutters on a house of about 2,000 square feet of living area is $1,200–$2,500, the typical band, when the metal is seamless aluminum and the fascia is sound. Do not multiply 2,000 by the per-foot rate. Two thousand square feet of floor is not two thousand feet of eave. A one-story ranch of that floor area usually has the longer eave and sits toward the top of the band. A two-story house with the same floor area usually has the shorter eave, and the ladders put the dollars back into the same band. If the eaves have been measured, use the length row and ignore this one.

Five-inch K-style is the gutter in the typical band. It is the common residential size, and the $1,200–$2,500 row is that size on a common house. Six-inch holds more water. Use it when a large or steep roof drains to one eave, or a clean 5-inch run that is already pitched correctly still overtops in a hard rain. Six-inch seamless aluminum is often $1–$3 more per linear foot than 5-inch. On about 180 feet that is about $180–$540. The matching downspout often goes from a 2-by-3 to a 3-by-4. A common house that sat inside the typical band on 5-inch usually stays near it on 6-inch. A house already at the top of the band can leave it.

Seamless means the run is formed in one piece on the installer’s truck, so a straight eave has no joint in the field. Corners and outlets are still fittings. Sectional gutters come in lengths and are joined on the ladder. They are a sound repair, and a sound short run, and they are the product in the vinyl row. Sectional aluminum usually prices under the seamless row. Every joint is a place that can leak. The typical whole-house job is seamless aluminum.

Ordinary downspouts are inside the length rows and the aluminum rate. A simple rectangle often needs about four. An extra downspout, with elbows and a splash block, is often $100–$250 on a one-story eave. A two-story drop uses more pipe and often lands around $200–$400. Add the row only for a downspout the bid prices beyond that set. A short extension at the ground is part of a normal downspout. Pipe buried to daylight is a drainage project, often a four-figure line, and it can clear the wider spread.

Gutter guard installation cost is often $7–$15 per linear foot on top of the gutters. About 160 feet at that rate is $1,120–$2,400. Plan about $1,000–$2,500 for guards on a common house. Screens sit toward the floor of the rate. A hood sits toward the top. Those dollars are not inside $1,200–$2,500.

Fascia repair is often $10–$25 per linear foot of board that actually comes off. Twenty feet is about $200–$500. Sixty feet is about $600–$1,500. Old gutter removal is already inside the length rows. If a bid leaves the old metal up, putting it in the truck is often $1–$3 per linear foot, about $150–$450 on 150 feet. Add that line once. Do not add it to a per-foot rate that already includes tear-off.

What the range includes

The typical band assumes an existing single-family house, seamless aluminum K-style gutters of the common 5-inch size on the eaves that need them, matching downspouts, tear-off and haul-away of one set of old gutters, hangers into sound fascia, outlets, elbows, and splash blocks or short extensions so water is not dumped against the foundation. An ordinary one-story house, or a straightforward two-story house the crew can reach, sits inside the band. A small, simple one-story house in a lower-cost area sits toward the floor. More corners, more downspouts, or a higher eave sit toward the top.

Gutter guards, a new fascia board, new soffit, and underground drain pipe are not in the typical band. Copper, steel, and half-round are different products. Six-inch gutter is a small step up from 5-inch, not a new project, unless the rest of the house was already leaving the band.

The floor of the national spread, near $400, is a short sectional repair: one run, or a downspout and an outlet, on an eave the crew can reach from the ground. It is not a whole-house seamless job someone discounted. The top, toward $7,000, is where a large or two-story house, guards on the whole run, a heavier metal, and a stretch of fascia repair usually land together. Copper on the whole house, a full soffit and fascia replacement, and a buried French drain can clear that top. Treat a number above it as a different scope and ask which driver caused it.

None of the bands include a roof replacement, new vinyl siding, an exterior paint job, or new windows. If the roof is being replaced in the same season, the drip edge and the gutter should be planned together so one crew is not sending water behind the other’s new edge. If the siding project includes new fascia, hang the gutters after that board is on. Paint on the fascia is the painting guide. The gutter is this one. Water that still ponds against the house after the downspouts are extended is a grading or drainage problem, on the French drain guide, not a reason to buy a larger gutter. A wall or a slab that has already moved is the foundation repair guide. A basement that takes on water, and needs a pump or a new pit, is the sump pump guide. A coating, a membrane, or an interior system on the basement walls is the basement waterproofing guide.

As a cross-check, not a bid: ask for the linear feet, the number of downspouts, and the price per foot with tear-off included. About 150 feet of seamless aluminum at $8–$14 should land near $1,200–$2,100. If a whole-house bid and that reading are far apart, the bid is a different metal, a different length, or a different scope.

What moves the price

Driver	How it changes the bid
Length and corners	More eave is more gutter. The 150-foot aluminum row is $1,200–$2,100. The 250-foot row is $2,000–$3,500. Every inside corner, outside corner, and outlet is a fitting and another trip up the ladder.
Material	Seamless aluminum is the typical band, $8–$14 a foot. Vinyl sectional is $4–$8. Steel is $12–$22. Copper is $30–$50 and can clear the wider spread.
Stories	One story is $1,000–$2,200. Two stories is $1,800–$3,400. Height adds ladder or lift time, and the downspouts are longer.
Gutter size	Five-inch K-style is the gutter in the typical band. Six-inch is often $1–$3 more per foot when a larger or steeper roof needs it.
Tear-off	One set of old gutters, hauled away, is in the length rows. A bid that leaves them on the house is often $1–$3 a foot short of a comparable number.
Fascia and soffit	Sound fascia is assumed. Replacing rotten board is often $10–$25 a foot of the piece that comes off. New soffit around the house is its own project.
Guards	Often $7–$15 a foot on top of the metal, about $1,000–$2,500 on a common house. They are an option, not a default.
Access and region	Open eaves the truck can reach are the planning job. The same scope in a lower-cost area sits toward the floor of the row. A high-labor city sits toward the top and can leave it. A fenced yard or a steep lot takes longer.

Guards are a maintenance choice. They are worth pricing when trees dump debris into the runs and a ladder is a bad way to clean them, or a cleaning visit is already a recurring bill. They do not fix a gutter that is undersized or pitched back toward the fascia, and they do not stand in for a roof that sheds needles and granules by the bucket. Some covers still collect debris on top. A hood can hide a clog at the outlet until water runs behind the gutter. Price screens and a hood as two options on the same linear feet, so you can see the metal versus the cover.

Sound fascia is the board the hangers have to bite. A hanger in the outer skin of a soft board will pull out. Replace the rotten stretch first, then hang the gutter. Twenty feet of new board is a few hundred dollars. A whole-house fascia and soffit replacement can clear the wider spread and should be its own proposal. If the house is being painted, the exterior painting guide is the coat on trim that is still sound. Painters should not finish a board the gutter crew is about to pull, and the gutter crew should not discover rot after the hangers were bid as included. New soffit is closer to a vinyl siding line than to a gutter line when the panels are the project. Leave the intake vents open. A sealed soffit is an attic problem.

If a roof replacement is already planned, replace failing gutters in the same week, after the drip edge is on, so the metal sheds into the gutter. Many roof bids stop at the drip edge. Ask whether the linear feet are in that contract. New gutters will not fix shingles that are done, and a new roof does not include gutters unless the bid lists them. If the roof is young and the only failure is one leaking corner, repair the gutter and leave the roof alone.

DIY or hire

Seamless gutters are a hire. The run is formed on a machine in a truck, and the slope, the hangers, and the outlets have to land so water actually leaves. Two-story eaves are a fall hazard. A ladder set against soft fascia is how a low bid ends up on the ground in the first storm.

A careful owner can replace a short sectional run on a one-story eave they can reach from the ground, if the fascia is solid and the hangers can hit framing, not just the outer skin of the board. Pitch the run toward the outlet. A level gutter looks neat and holds water. The ordinary pitch is a small drop toward the downspout, on the order of a quarter inch over ten feet. If the board is soft, or the old hangers pulled out and took wood with them, stop. That is a fascia repair.

Hire the whole job if the house is two stories, if you want seamless aluminum, if guards are going on, or if the roof is being replaced and the edge metal has to match. If the roof crew is already on site, ask whether they will hang gutters or whether a gutter company should follow them the same week. Do not leave the drip edge draining behind the new gutter because nobody owned the detail.

Repair or replace

Repair when one joint leaks, a downspout is disconnected, or a single section has pulled loose and the rest of the run is pitched correctly on dry fascia. Resealing a corner or replacing one sectional length is what the floor of the wider spread is for. It is cheaper than a whole-house replacement, and it is the right purchase when the rest of the metal is sound.

Replace the gutters when they sag between hangers, the metal is cracked or rusted through, the seams leak in several places, or the hangers are tearing out of the board across the house. That whole-house gutter replacement cost is the typical band, $1,200–$2,500, for seamless aluminum on a common house with sound fascia. New gutter screwed to rotten fascia will sag again. Replace the board first, then the gutter.

Overflow in a hard rain is not, by itself, proof the gutters are finished. It can be debris, a clogged outlet, a downspout that dumps at the foundation and splashes back, or a roof area that is too large for a 5-inch run. Have the runs cleaned and the pitch checked before you buy a full replacement. If water is entering at the roof edge rather than over the gutter, a localized leak is the roof repair guide, and a roof at the end of its life is the roof replacement guide. New gutters will not fix a failed valley or missing kick-out flashing.

How to use this number

Ask for bids that state the linear feet, the profile and the metal, whether the gutters are seamless, how many downspouts, whether tear-off and haul-away are included, what happens if the fascia is soft, and whether guards are included. Compare seamless aluminum on a common house, on sound fascia, with $1,200–$2,500. Compare about 150 feet with $1,200–$2,100, and about 200 feet with $1,600–$2,800. Compare the per-foot rate with $8–$14 for seamless aluminum, $4–$8 for vinyl, $12–$22 for steel, and $30–$50 for copper. Compare a one-story house with $1,000–$2,200 and a two-story house with $1,800–$3,400. Keep guards, fascia repair, a roof replacement, and a buried French drain as their own lines.

A very low bid on a whole-house seamless job is a reason to ask whether tear-off, downspouts, and haul-away are included, not a reason to celebrate. A high bid should point at height, corners, guards, metal, or rotten fascia. Two or three local bids on the same feet and the same metal are the number that matters. How this site sets the band is explained on the methodology page.