Gutters are the cheapest part of a house to get right and one of the most expensive to ignore. Water coming off a roof with nowhere to go ends up in the fascia, the siding, and eventually the foundation.
Seamless, cut on site
Sectional gutter from a big-box store comes in ten-foot lengths joined every ten feet, and every joint is a future leak. Seamless gutter is rolled from coil on site to the exact length of your run, so the only seams on the whole house are at the corners.
That is the standard we install, in a range of colors to match trim you already have.
Gutter repair and cleaning
Not every gutter problem needs new gutter.
- Repairs — resealing end caps and corners, re-hanging sagging sections, replacing damaged lengths, refastening pulled hangers, and correcting a run that was hung without enough fall to drain.
- Cleaning — clearing leaves and grit from the runs and flushing the downspouts. A gutter full of debris is a gutter that overflows behind the fascia, which is where the expensive damage starts.
- Downspout work — adding drops to a run that cannot keep up, or extending discharge away from the foundation.
If a repair will do, we will tell you. Replacing sound gutter is easy money and we would rather have the call again in five years.
Gutter guards
If you have pines or hardwoods over the house, guards are usually worth it — not because gutters stop working without them, but because cleaning a two-story gutter twice a year is either a Saturday you lose or a bill you pay.
Guards run about $3.75 per foot on top of the gutter itself. They go on the gutter run, not the downspouts.
What it costs
We price seamless gutter at $11.50 per linear foot, which covers the gutter and the downspouts. Corners are $300 per miter.
Downspouts are sized to the run: one per run, and another for every 40 feet after that. A 60-foot run takes two, because one downspout cannot move that much water in a Midlands thunderstorm.
You do not have to take our word for the arithmetic. Our roof measurement tool measures your eaves from satellite imagery and gives you a gutter range along with the roof figure, free, in about thirty seconds.
We live here
Precision Palmetto is based in Columbia. Our license is South Carolina, our number is an 803 number, and when you call it in three years somebody will answer. If we get something wrong, we are still here to put it right — which is a stronger guarantee than anything we could print on this page.
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Common questions
How much do new gutters cost?
We price seamless gutter at $11.50 per linear foot including downspouts, with corners at $300 per miter and gutter guards at about $3.75 per foot. Our free roof measurement tool will estimate your footage from your address.
What size gutter do I need?
Most Midlands homes are fine on standard residential gutter. Large or steep roofs that dump a lot of water quickly sometimes need oversized gutter or an extra downspout instead — we will tell you which when we measure.
How many downspouts does my house need?
One per run, plus another for every 40 feet beyond the first. A 60-foot run takes two. Undersizing downspouts is the most common reason a correctly sized gutter still overflows.
Are gutter guards worth it?
If you have trees over the roof, usually yes. If you do not, they are often money you can spend elsewhere. We will give you a straight answer for your house rather than adding them to every quote.
Can you match my existing gutter color?
Usually. Seamless gutter comes in a range of factory colors and we roll it on site, so matching existing trim is normally straightforward.
Want a straight number?
We will come out, look at the job properly, and put a price in writing — including if the answer is that it does not need doing yet.
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