How Much Does Gutter Replacement Cost?

Checkatrade's gutter table, updated October 2026, sets a typical job at £650 to £1,700, with an average of £1,000. Its example is a house with 15 to 20 metres of gutter and three downpipes, which is a fair picture of a semi-detached or a modest detached home. A terraced house with a shorter roofline may fall below that, and a large detached house with a long, cut-up roof will sit above it.

Treat that table as a yardstick, not a quote, and expect a long, awkward roofline to come out above it. It is a national average drawn from many jobs, and it cannot know whether your eaves are at single-storey height, whether your gutters are cast iron, or whether the board behind them has gone soft. House type is a rough guide only, because two houses of the same size can differ by hundreds of pounds once the details are counted.

Check whether any figure you see includes VAT and whether it includes taking away the old gutters, since the waste is bulky and has to go somewhere. Our own price follows a survey, as a single written total, so there is nothing to add up. The guide price for the wider roofline work is on our gutters, soffits and fascias page.

Plastic is the usual choice, because uPVC is light, easy to cut and comes in standard colours. It suits a tight budget, and the parts click together on rubber seals. It can fade or turn brittle in time, and a section that has cracked is replaced rather than repaired.

Aluminium costs more per metre, is stiffer, and can be bought in a wide range of powder-coated colours. It is often made on site in one long length from a roll, which removes the joints along a run where leaks begin. It suits long, straight elevations and houses where appearance matters, such as a period property or one with a decorative roofline. A dent is permanent, and it needs proper brackets at close spacing, so careful fitting matters more than with plastic.

The two materials are compared side by side, including colour and upkeep, in our answer on aluminium against uPVC guttering. Whichever you choose, ask for the profile and the fixing method to be written on the quote so you know what is going up.

Length and corners come first, since every stop end, angle and joint is a part to buy and fit. The number of downpipes comes next, and whether they can be re-used on the existing wall brackets or need new routes to the drains.

Height and access matter most of all. On a bungalow, gutters can be replaced from a ladder or a small platform. Higher up, a full tower or scaffold is usually safer, and Checkatrade's fascia and soffit table for September 2026 lists roughly £450 a week for each elevation. Scaffold that is already up for a roof repair or a fascia job can often be shared, which saves money, so ask whether other work is planned.

The condition of what is behind the gutter changes the job too. If the fascia board is rotten, new gutters on soft timber will not hold. For that reason we look at the board first, and our answer on the life of uPVC roofline covers what to expect from the parts that stay. Waste removal and VAT are the final points to confirm in writing. Ask too whether the work includes new stop ends, outlets and any change to where the water drains, because those small parts are easy to leave out of a price and expensive to add later.

A single cracked section, a perished joint seal or a loose clip is a repair, and it is quicker and cheaper than renewing the whole run. Our answer on a leaking gutter joint shows when a repair is enough.

Replacement makes sense when the damage is spread out. Gutters that have faded and cracked in several places, that sag between brackets, that have been mended more than once, or were fitted at the wrong fall, will keep failing. The cost of coming back to deal with them again can pass the cost of a new run. The same goes for older systems where parts for the profile are no longer easy to find.

Whether you replace or repair, the price you get from us is a single written sum, set after we have inspected the gutter and the board behind it. Count your downpipes, note how high the eaves sit, and we will say which route looks right before we visit.