Gutter guard pricing

Every rate we charge, in one place

Gutter pricing is usually something you only hear at the end of a home visit. We publish ours instead. The rates below are the rates we quote, and they are the same for every homeowner who calls.

A StormRail job is priced from two measured quantities. The first is the gutter system, charged per foot of gutter. That single rate covers the gutter where one is being installed, the Alu-Rex guard or hanger system, and the installation. The second is the downspouts, charged per foot of downspout. Keeping the two separate is what lets the price follow the actual house: two homes with the same roofline can need very different amounts of downspout, depending on how tall they are.

Each system comes in two sizes. A 5-inch gutter suits most New England homes. A 6-inch gutter carries more water and suits larger or steeper roofs and places where a valley concentrates runoff. We give you both prices and let you decide, and we will tell you on the call if a roof clearly needs the larger size.

• Gutter Clean Pro, over sound existing gutters: $18/ft (5″) · $20/ft (6″)
• T-Rex, new gutters with continuous hanger and guard: $25/ft (5″) · $29/ft (6″)
• DoublePro, new gutters with dual-layer filtration: $30/ft (5″) · $34/ft (6″)
• Downspouts, elbows included: $14/ft · $16/ft for 6-inch work
• Removing an old system, where needed: $1/ft

A worked example

Here is how the two lines combine on a typical job. This is an illustration, not a quote for your house. Take a home with 140 feet of gutter and 70 feet of downspout, fitted with 5-inch T-Rex. The gutter system line is 140 feet at $25 per foot, which is $3,500. The downspout line is 70 feet at $14 per foot, which is $980. Together that is $4,480 before any removal of old gutters.

The same roofline on a taller house would carry more downspout footage and a higher total, and a single-story home would carry less. That is the point of pricing the two quantities separately: the number moves with the work. If the old gutters have to come off first, removal adds $1 per foot of removed run, shown as its own line.

On that example the deposit could never be more than $1,493, which is one third of the contract. Your own quote names the exact deposit figure in writing before you pay anything.

• 140 ft of 5″ T-Rex × $25 = $3,500
• 70 ft of downspout × $14 = $980
• Illustrative total: $4,480 · deposit at most $1,493

What moves your total up or down

The per-foot rates do not change from house to house. What changes is the quantities. The length of the roofline sets the gutter feet. The height of each side of the house sets the downspout feet. A second or third story, or a tall downhill side on a sloped lot, adds downspout footage even when the eaves are short.

The number and position of drops matter too. A long run may need a downspout at each end, and a roof valley that dumps water onto one corner may need its own outlet. Choosing 6-inch instead of 5-inch raises both the gutter and downspout rates. Taking the old system off adds the removal line.

Some things sit outside the per-foot rates because they are a different job: soft or rotted fascia behind the gutter, a damaged roof edge, or a buried drain that needs digging up. If any of those turns up, it is named and priced as its own scope before you authorize it, never folded quietly into the gutter number.

Deposits: never more than a third

Massachusetts law caps a home-improvement deposit at one third of the contract price. We apply that same limit in every state we work in, not only in Massachusetts. Your quote states the exact deposit amount, and the balance is due as the contract describes.

Keeping the deposit to a third means most of the contract price is not paid up front. It also means the deposit is a fixed, predictable figure you can see on the quote, not a number that is negotiated at the door.

Pricing starts with a phone call and a remote look at the roofline. You pay a deposit only once you have an itemized scope in hand and decide to go ahead.

Which part would you take away?

People ask for a lower number. It's a fair question, so here's the honest answer: there's nothing in here to remove. The price covers a path the water takes from your roof to a safe distance from your house, and every piece of it is carrying that water somewhere.

Take one out and you haven't saved money. You've picked the spot where the water stops going where it should — and water that stops halfway is the reason people call us in the first place.

That is also why there is no expiring discount. The price on this page is the price next month. A number that drops if you sign tonight was never the real number in the first place.

• The gutter: Catches the water coming off the roof.
• The continuous hanger: Holds the line true so it can't sag and pond in the middle.
• The guard: Keeps the channel open when the trees let go in October.
• The downspout: Takes the water down.
• The ground spout: Takes it away from the foundation — the whole point of the exercise.

From a phone call to a scheduled install

Call (617) 401-9301 at any hour. Tell us the address, the number of stories, what the trees around the house drop, and what the current gutters do in heavy rain. From the roofline and those answers we can give you a first number on the call, with no appointment and nobody sitting in your living room.

Before you authorize anything, the scope is confirmed: which system, which size, how many feet of gutter and downspout, whether old gutters come off, and where the downspouts discharge. Conditions that cannot be seen from above, such as soft fascia, a hidden rear addition or a collapsed buried drain, are raised before the job is scheduled, not added to the bill afterwards.

In season we're typically booking four to six weeks out. We'd rather tell you that now than promise you Tuesday and send whoever happened to be free. Emergency work — a collapsed run, active water in the basement — gets triaged ahead of the queue. StormRail serves homeowners across New England, and the installation itself is done by a certified Alu-Rex contractor.