Average cost for gutter replacement?

So had my first bid this morning to replace the damaged gutters on the front side of the house. Remove remaining section, dispose of everything, replace with matching, reuse a few down spouts - $496 and "within 2 weeks" for when they could be done.

I have 4 more bids to get, 1 tonight, 1 tomorrow morning and 2 on Monday. The cheapest and/or can do it the quickest gets the work. I'm curious what the "average" should be? I don't know the length of the house, but he bid 5" gutters and I have generic grated covers over it now.

Any ideas on normal price?

All I know is they ream you to add the gutter guard.

I will say this about that. We replaced out gutters about a year ago. The company that did our roof also did the gutters. It was seven or eight pieces, and total bill was close to a grand.

The kicker: Parts our our house are two story, and one dude did the entire job by himself.

That sounds reasonable. Are they the one piece "extruded" type that they bend up on-site?

$500 sounds pretty good. A local company did my gutters on my garage for a bit less but it wasn't until they had them up that I realized they were putting the 4" gutters up. Didn't cause too much of a problem but for the length of gutter you have I would definitely want the 5" gutters.

In reply to bgkast:

I believe it is. The existing gutter was all one piece & I was surprised by that. Not knowing anything about gutters, I was trying to figure out how they got a gutter 30-40-50' in length to the house?? I was expecting 8' or 10' lengths they would cut. Apparently one big section is better for non-leaking from what I've read.

Sounds reasonable. I traded my 93 Dakota for new gutters and getting my deck refinished (pressure washed and sealed).

Sounds cheap enough (and yes you always want the one piece gutters formed on site)

A few years ago I had "Gutter Magicians" come out for an estimate. The high pressure sales guy shot me a one time-not-to-be-missed price of $14,800.

Needless to say he left quickly after that. I found a local company to do the work for $3,750. and yes, big house, fancy roofline, 5" gutters with built in leaf guards, big downspouts, etc, etc...

Three straight one piece sections across the front of my house with two downspouts and a 'connector' (saved having to do a third downspout in a place I didn't want it to dump) was about $500.

The reason it was one piece is because it was made on site from a roll. The ones on our barn are 100 foot long single pieces. The had a machine the formed it.

Quotes do sound reasonable, I wish the quote on my house was in that range. Quotes I got were around $1800, but my house does have quite a lot of gutter to it.

Glad I'm not in the gutter business. Go with the one who offers the most, not the one who eats the least.

Video of seemless gutter machine.

bearmtnmartin wrote: Glad I'm not in the gutter business. Go with the one who offers the most, not the one who eats the least.

No Joke! and being in the construction/Service business myself it is pretty tough to make decent money on jobs under 500 bucks while doing things above the table and by the book. By the time you have driven out to bid.. Talked on the phone.. Then drive back to do the job.. paid some dummy helper, workers comp, insurance, put gas in the tank, materials, ect...

Then figured out how do at least two of these smaller jobs... preferably 3-4 in a day... Good luck paying the bills.

All so some jackwagon who is looking for beer money and not following the rules can beat you out of the job over twenty bucks...

/rant

I just got gutters on my building this week. If you can get the length of the run you're trying to price, I can check my bid/invoice and make a per-foot comparison.

In reply to alex:

Second guy measured from the ground and said it was just under 58'. His bid with decent covers was $560. Got another coming today in 25 minutes.

I had my mother's house done recently. Ranch style house with 100' of 5" gutter including leaf guard and 4 downspouts = $725 installed. That might give you some idea of price per foot.

This was a reputable company with 20+ years experience - not done by the light of the moon.

My garage for 86' of 5" gutter and 4-12' long 4' kickout 4" downspouts was $650.

The guy is coming this week to redo the house to match with about 220' of gutter 2 20' downspouts and 2 10' the quote is $1066

JohnRW1621 wrote: Video of seemless gutter machine.

I watched the guys do my gutters and it caught me off guard to see a 40' piece of material "appear" out of a 12' box truck.

So just had a company finish up. 58' of 5" gutter and gutter guard, remove what was left of the old, and haul away the junk. They rang the bell & said we're done, packed up and left.

Never signed anything. Never signed the estimate, just read the email. Best they have is when I called yesterday and said ok over the phone. .......free gutters??

In reply to Jerry:

No, but guaranteed you get a berkeleyed up fascia board when they rip it down if you don't pay the bill.