What gutter installation and repair cost in Austin

Gutter repair prices by job

Most repair visits in Austin land between $300 and $600 and cover two or three items from this list. Storm damage is usually priced the same way. If a storm did it, photograph the damage yourself and call your agent. The list below also covers the usual gutter downspout repair cost.

• Reseal a dripping corner or end cap$150–$250
• Re-hang a sagging run (per 20 ft)$150–$300
• Replace a crushed downspout$120–$220
• Add a second downspout$200–$350
• Replace a kinked 10–20 ft section$200–$450
• Rehang under a metal roof (per run)$150–$300

Typical ranges, not a quote.

The gutter repair page walks through each of these. Gutter repair quotes from phone photos are common for corners and elbows; anything involving fascia needs a ladder look before a firm gutter repair estimate.

Seamless installation: per foot and per house

What drives gutter installation cost? Austin quotes for seamless .032 aluminum installed run $9–$15 a foot. The per-foot figure normally includes forming the runs on site, corners, end caps, hidden hangers, downspouts, haul-away of anything old, and a hose test. What moves it within that range is the gutter size, the downspout size and how many corners the roof has. Here is how seamless gutters cost out by configuration:

• 5-inch, 2x3 downspouts, 1-story$1,500–$2,000
• 5-inch, 3x4 downspouts, 1-story$1,650–$2,200
• 6-inch, 3x4 downspouts, 1-story$2,000–$2,500
• Half-round aluminum, 1-story$2,300–$3,500
• 5-inch, 2x3 downspouts, 2-story$2,100–$2,800
• 5-inch, 3x4 downspouts, 2-story$2,300–$3,000
• 6-inch, 3x4 downspouts, 2-story$2,700–$3,700

Typical ranges, not a quote.

A house that never had gutters is priced off the same table; there's simply no tear-off. Finishing a partial system, which on a Cedar Park or Round Rock two-story usually means adding the back and sides to match the builder's front runs, is typically 120–160 feet and $1,300–$2,300. Homes that never had gutters are among the most common installs around Austin, and the installation guide explains how they should be sized.

Guards, cleaning and drainage

• Guards: aluminum screen $5–$9 per foot, stainless micro-mesh $10–$18, reverse-curve $18–$30. Roughly $900–$2,900 on a 160-foot house, and cheapest bundled with new gutters. Which type suits which trees is on the gutter guards page.
• Cleaning: single-story $120–$200, two-story $180–$300, by the house. See gutter cleaning.
• Drainage: rain barrel hookup with overflow $150–$350, rain chain with outlet and basin $150–$400, buried line to a pop-up emitter $250–$700 per downspout, more where the trench has to go through limestone. See rain barrels and drainage.

Seven things that move an Austin quote

1. Height and slope. A second story adds 15–25% for the setup. A house on a Westlake or Lakeway hillside that's three stories on the downhill side is quoted after a look, and sometimes needs a lift.
2. Corners. Every inside and outside corner is a hand-fitted miter. A twelve-corner hip roof in Steiner Ranch costs more per foot than a four-corner gable in Crestview.
3. Metal roofing. Hanging lower and forward with 6-inch gutters adds a little per foot; skipping it produces a gutter the water sails over.
4. Fascia. Soft boards at the corners are the usual surprise on 20-year-old gutters. Ask the contractor to probe them before quoting so the number doesn't change on install day.
5. Six-inch. About 20% over 5-inch, and the right call on two-story homes, metal roofs and valley runs.
6. The ground. A buried drain through Blackland clay is a shovel job; the same line through limestone in Northwest Hills is a trenching job.
7. Color. White, clay, brown and the usual trim shades are standard stock colors. A specialty color may add a week and a coil surcharge.

A worked example, Circle C (illustrative)

Two-story, 210 feet of gutter, hip roof with eight corners, five downspouts, one soft corner of fascia by the garage. Six-inch .032 aluminum with 3x4 downspouts at $14 a foot: $2,940. Ten feet of PVC fascia at $12: $120. Five rigid extensions at $40: $200. Call it $3,260, typically done in a day, the builder's front gutters hauled off. If another quote for that house comes in at $2,100, it's likely 5-inch .027 metal on spikes with 2x3 downspouts, which is what came off.

How to budget if you can't do it all at once

Plenty of homeowners spread gutter work over a year or two. The order matters, because some jobs make others cheaper and some are wasted if done first.

1. Downspout extensions and straps. The cheapest work on the list, and the most useful for the slab or a slope.
2. Anything actively leaking onto wood. A corner dripping onto fascia turns a $200 reseal into a board replacement within a season or two.
3. Overflow at the far end of a long run. A second 3x4 downspout often ends it.
4. Missing runs on a partial system. The back and sides of a builder house, done as one job.
5. Guards last, and only on gutters that are sound, sized right and pitched correctly.

If a full replacement is coming within a few years, skip guards and big repairs on the old system. Spend on extensions and leaks now, then fold the rest into the new install, where the per-foot price is lowest.

Before you sign anything

Before you sign a gutter estimate, Austin or anywhere else, make sure it is written and itemized, and ask how long the price holds. Gauge, hanger type and spacing, downspout size and count, corner method, fascia per foot, haul-away and extensions should each be a line. A quote that's several hundred dollars under the others is almost always missing two of those lines rather than beating the others on price. How to read a gutter quote goes through it line by line, and what the price per foot buys explains the gauge and hanger side.