The house
Start from a common job, then replace every figure with your takeoff. Changing profile or stories never overwrites a rate you already typed. This prices a new hang — not a cleaning, and not gutter guards on an existing trough.
Your crew rates
A $38/h installer loaded at 32% is $50.16. Quoting the raw wage on a published $4.50-a-foot special is how a two-story colonial with fascia that looked fine turns into a two-day loss after the first inside miter.
Your bid
- Profile and stories
- Corners and extras
- Crew hours
- Loaded labor
- Trough + fittings
- Travel + equipment
- Overhead
- Total cost
- Profit at this price
- Price per foot of gutter
- Effective hourly rate
- Walk-away price
Where the hours go
Where the cost goes
Transparent arithmetic from your own inputs. Starting hours and material rates are common ballpark figures, not an industry standard or a water-management design — replace them with your own takeoff.
Hand the customer a proposal
The price above is for you. This is the page you print or save as a PDF and give to the customer — your details, their details, the scope, the deposit split, and a line for them to sign. Your business details are saved on this device so you only type them once; the customer’s details are never saved.
Everything on the printed page is text you typed or a number this calculator worked out. It contains no warranty, lien, or cancellation wording — those depend on your jurisdiction and your contract, and this tool is not the place to invent them.
Common questions
Why does the calculator only charge for downspouts past the first two?
Because a per-foot special is usually built around a brochure job that already includes a couple of drops and ten feet of downspout each — so those defaults are subtracted out before anything is billed. Extra downspouts and extra downspout footage past that included allowance are the only ones that add their own labor and material lines, which is why two houses with the same gutter footage but different drop counts can price very differently.
Why does a two-story house cost more per foot of gutter than a one-story of the same length?
Story hours scale with gutter footage, not with a flat add-on — one story adds nothing, two stories add 0.018 hours per gutter foot, and three stories add 0.032, on top of steep-access hours if that's checked too. A 220-foot run on a two-story colonial carries real ladder and staging time that the same 220 feet on a one-story ranch never needs.
Why does copper cost so much more than aluminum for the same run?
Mostly material, not labor: half-round copper starts at $18 per foot of trough versus $3.40 for 5-inch aluminum, while the hang labor only runs modestly higher at 0.055 hours per foot versus 0.035. Six-inch aluminum sits in between on labor (0.04 hours per foot) but adds its own $1.20-per-foot profile premium on top of the base aluminum rate, which a straight per-foot comparison to 5-inch aluminum would miss entirely.
Why are inside miters priced differently from outside miters?
They're two separate line items with their own hours and their own material cost per corner, because an inside corner and an outside corner are cut and sealed differently — the calculator doesn't assume a fixed inside-to-outside ratio the way a flat per-foot special implicitly does. A run with mostly outside corners and one with the same corner count split evenly between inside and outside can price differently.
Does tear-off of the old gutters only add a dump fee?
No — it's a toggle that adds its own labor hours (per foot of gutter) as well as its own dump-fee material line, and both scale with the length of the run being torn off, not a flat charge regardless of size. Left unchecked, tear-off contributes nothing to either the hours total or the material total, which is the difference between a fresh-fascia install and a strip-and-replace.