What Do Seamless Gutters Cost in Phoenix?

What do seamless gutters cost in Phoenix?

We publish the number because almost nobody local does, and the numbers that do show up in search are wrong in a way that costs homeowners time. Our installed range for 6-inch seamless aluminum is $16 to $25 per linear foot. That covers the gutter itself, formed on site to the length of each eave, the hangers, the end caps, the corners and the labor to hang it on the fascia below the tile. The seamless gutter installation page walks through the job itself.

The range is a range because houses are not the same. A long, straight back eave on a single-story shingle roof with one downspout at each end sits near the bottom. A two-story tile roof with six corners, two inside valleys and downspouts that have to be routed around a patio cover sits near the top. The factors are laid out further down.

Worked examples by house size

The question people actually type is “how much for a 2,000 square foot house.” Square footage does not buy gutter; linear feet of eave does. So the first step is translating one into the other, and the honest way to do that is to describe the house rather than the number.

1,500 square foot single-story, about 120 feet of eave

A typical late-1990s Valley single-story with a hip roof and a front-facing garage. Hip roofs have eave on every side, and once you leave out the short gable ends over the entry, most come out around 120 feet. At $16 to $25 per foot, the whole-house number is $1,920 to $3,000. Most owners in this house do not gutter all four sides; a back patio run and the entry, around 60 feet, is more common, and that is $960 to $1,500.

2,000 square foot single-story, about 160 feet of eave

A wider footprint, a longer back wall, and often an L-shaped plan with a courtyard or an inside corner. Call it 160 feet with two inside corners. Whole house, $2,560 to $4,000. The inside corners matter here: an inside corner is where two roof planes dump into one spot in a valley, and the gutter under it takes a concentrated load, so that is where we place a downspout and often a 3x4 rather than a 2x3.

2,500 square foot two-story, about 180 feet of eave

Two-story homes have a smaller footprint per square foot, so the eave total is not as large as the square footage suggests, but the eave is split between two levels. Upper-level gutter often has to drop onto the lower roof and be collected again. Call it 180 feet across both levels, $2,880 to $4,500, and expect a two-story to land in the upper half of the per-foot range for the ladder and staging work.

100 feet

The number that comes up when someone wants the whole back of the house and one side. $1,600 to $2,500.

How to estimate your own linear feet

Walk the outside of the house and measure only the walls that have an eave above them. Gable ends, the triangular walls where the roof peaks, get no gutter; the roof does not drain there. On a hip roof every wall has eave. On a gable-roof house, typically two of the four sides do. Add the sides you want covered, count the outside and inside corners, and note where the ground below is something you care about. That list is what we quote from, and doing it yourself first means you will recognize a fair number when you see one.

Why the numbers online look lower

Search “seamless gutters cost Phoenix” and the top result is an aggregator article with a per-foot number well below ours. National sites publish per-foot figures that are averaged across the whole country, across vinyl and steel and aluminum, across 5-inch and 6-inch, across DIY sectional runs and professional seamless gutter installs. We will not repeat their figures here, but we will tell you why they do not match a Phoenix quote.

We quote 6-inch aluminum hung on tile roofs by a licensed crew with a machine on a trailer in your driveway, and the other local installers we compete with are pricing a similar job. Tile changes the work: the gutter goes on the fascia under the first course of tile, bird stops and the drip edge have to be worked around, and the S-tile eave throws water further out, which is one reason we hang 6-inch. A national average that assumes a 5-inch gutter on an asphalt-shingle eave in a market with cheaper labor is answering a different question. The forum threads asking whether a Phoenix quote is too high are the result of that mismatch, and the quote is usually in line with what the local market charges.

What moves a quote within the range

Linear feet. The base. Longer runs spread the setup cost across more feet and sit lower per foot.

Corners. Every outside corner is a mitre we cut and seal on site. Every inside corner is a mitre plus a concentrated water load that wants its own downspout. More corners, higher per foot.

Downspouts. Count and size. A 3x4 downspout has twice the opening of a 2x3 and is our default on 6-inch gutter. Runs that need a downspout every 30 to 40 feet, or that need the discharge routed around a patio or across a walkway, add to the job. Downspouts are their own line on the quote.

6-inch versus 5-inch. Our published range is for 6-inch. Five-inch is possible on a small casita or patio cover, and 5-inch or 6-inch gutters for a Phoenix house explains when each makes sense.

Color. Dark gray, bronze, white and tan are our standard four and sit inside the range. Matching a fascia color in a master-planned community is usually one of those four.

Roof height. Single-story from the ground, two-story from ladders and staging. Two-story lands higher.

Tile versus shingle. Tile takes longer to hang under and needs more care at the eave. Foam and flat roofs with parapets are a different product (scuppers and conductor heads) and are quoted separately.

Tear-off. Removing old sectional gutter, pulling its spikes, and patching the fascia before the new run goes up is its own line item.

What is not in the per-foot number

Downspouts, gutter guards, tear-off of existing gutter, and fascia repair are quoted as line items so you can see them. We are not going to fold them into a per-foot figure and call it simple. If you want guards, the gutter guards page covers which styles survive palo verde litter and monsoon dust; if you want the run without them, that is fine too.

Where we work

We install across North Phoenix, Anthem, Cave Creek, Scottsdale, Glendale, Peoria, Surprise and the rest of the North Valley. Same per-foot range everywhere; the house decides where in the range it lands. Most jobs are done in a day with the machine on the trailer in your driveway.

If you want a real number for your house rather than an estimate from a floor plan, we measure on site and the estimate is free.