What do New Gutters cost?
It’s been a few months since my last pricing post so let’s look into the current prices for new gutters in East Texas.
How gutters are priced?
Seamless gutters are priced by the linear foot. Pricing isn’t dependent on the square footage of a home, because two of the same size houses can have very different rooflines that require completely different gutter systems. The Price/ft that companies charge is based on some notably volatile indexes, like the London Metals Exchange (the international market for metals futures) and The Midwest Premium (an index that tracks Shipping, Packaging, Painting, Processing, etc.) Historically these have been much more stable, but events of the last 6 years have greatly destabilized the metals industry and as such, the prices climb wildly week to week.
Graph showing the LME aluminum price + Midwest Premium by price/pound.
The above graph is one that we get from a large supply company in a ‘pricing update’ email every month, last month that switched to every two weeks. As you can imagine that makes giving gutter quotes a bit difficult, especially when quoting as we often do, for new homes from plans that aren’t going to be built for several months.
This is why you’ll see ‘this quote is valid for 30 days’ on the top of your quote sheets.
Enough already, tell me the prices.
In East Texas the prices range from $7-$12 per foot currently. The Gutter Guy will be on the higher end of the range, as we have a substantially higher standard of material thickness, brackets, and parts than other local companies.
An average 3-bedroom house typically has around 160 feet of gutter, and 90 feet of downspout.
an average 4-5 bedroom house will be 240 feet of gutter and 130 feet of downspout.
(obviously, bedrooms are a weak proxy on don’t have much to do with roof lines, but in our experience these rough averages are pretty close)
Rough Average Prices for Gutter Installation in East Texas (Q2 2026)
One of the things we try to do at The Gutter Guy is to do away with the premium between standard K-style and the rest of our alternative shapes. We want to see the right shape of gutter go on your house, so we sell all of our profiles at the same base price. This isn’t common in the industry, most companies charge 20%-150% premium on alternative gutter shapes to cover the extensive costs of their equipment and training investment.
Are prices ever going to go down?
There aren’t any indications currently that metals are going to go back down in the near future. Most building industry professionals notice a fundamental change in the market, and the way the market works that happened in the Covid era. Decades of norms, standard practices, and relationship concepts were smashed and intentionally reworked by various parties into a completely new system. Much like we will likely never see sub-dollar gas again, it’s highly unlikely gutter will ever go down substantially.
Should I hurry up and buy new gutters now before the prices go up again?
The Gutter Guy doesn’t believe in, nor encourage panic buying. The only time we encourage buying early, (as we did once this week), is if you’re already scheduled, you have a big project, and the funds are already secured. For instance, we have a client with a large copper install coming up, the job is already designed and signed so he’s ordering the material early as there are some items currently on sale. In this case it makes sense to take advantage of some sale prices, but in most other scenarios there isn’t the same benefit.
If you’re in the more common boat, the one where we have to save up for home projects, it’s often better just to continue saving a few more weeks than it is to get into financing.
