Gutter repair costs
How much does a gutter repair cost?
A gutter repair is a small job whose price follows the fault. This page gives the published figures and the questions that decide where yours lands.
The short answer
Cost guides do not list a price for a single joint, bracket or short length of gutter, so a repair is priced after a look. Two published figures frame it. Which? Trusted Traders give £75 to £350 for clearing a property's gutters (November 2025, excluding VAT). Separately, MyJobQuote averages a gutter replacement at around £1,000 to £1,600. Your repair has its own price.
4 min read · Part of Gutters, soffits & fascias
The figures that have been published
Repairs are priced by the fault, after the survey. The published guides below give two gutter figures, one for clearing as maintenance and one for full replacement, and a repair sits between them.
| Job | Figure | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Clear all gutters, front and back | £75 to £350 | Which? Trusted Traders, Nov 2025, ex VAT |
| Replace gutters, UK average | Around £1,000 to £1,600 | MyJobQuote, 20/10/26 |
Which? adds that London and South East prices, a region that covers our whole area, are likely to come in at the upper end. MyJobQuote's page states no VAT basis, so none is assumed here. Neither range is a price for your house, and a repair does not simply land midway between them.
The first is the cost of looking after a run, the second the cost of starting again. A repair is the work in between, and its price depends on what the fault turns out to be. A joint that takes minutes to reseal and a section that needs cutting out are very different amounts of labour, even though both are described as a repair.
What decides the price of a repair
The fault sets the work, and the work sets the price. Repairs we do on a gutter run, with what each involves:
- A dripping joint: open it, clean both ends, then fit a new union and seal.
- A dropped section: re-set the brackets and correct the slope.
- A cracked length: lift it out and put a matching piece in its place.
- A loose or missing bracket: refix or add one into timber that holds.
- A choked outlet or hopper: clear it and run the pipe below.
Height changes the price as much as the fault. A joint above a low porch is reached from a ladder, while the same joint at a second-storey eaves needs a tower or scaffold. A repair that needs scaffold is priced with it, and the quote says so.
What the board behind the gutter is doing matters too. Brackets fixed into soft timber pull out again, so a repair along a rotten fascia is a different job. Our answer on a leaking gutter joint shows how the simplest fault is mended.
When replacing the run is the fairer spend
Repair first is where we start, and you are told when it is sound. That changes in a few cases that we look for at the survey, because patching a run that is failing everywhere costs more in the end. In each of them a new run, or a new board behind it, is the work that holds.
One is a run with joints dripping all along it, where each repair is followed by another and a new run is the fairer spend. Another is a gutter whose fascia has gone soft, since new brackets pull out of rotten timber. A third is old guttering that is brittle, cracked in several places or sagging between brackets that have been re-set more than once.
In every case you are shown the fault itself and are told which way the verdict goes, so the decision is yours. A good repair holds for years, and a retailer of uPVC roofline boards puts reliable performance at between 20 and 40 years where they are installed correctly, so a run on firm boards is worth looking after. If the answer is replacement, our page on the cost to replace fascias, soffits and guttering covers it, including what moves the total.
How the price is given
Before any figure, we examine the gutter, the board behind it and the way the eaves are reached, then give you one written total price. Should scaffold be needed, it sits inside that price, and we arrange the licence with our scaffolder where one is required. Work that does not need doing is kept out, and the reason is written down.
If you want to compare, put the same questions to any other firm: is VAT in the figure, is scaffold, and what has been left out? A low-looking figure that omits the scaffold is not lower, and it will not stay that way once the access is added.
Send a picture of the dripping joint or the dropped run, along with the eaves height if you know it, and we can tell you what the visit is likely to find. Our hub page on gutters, soffits and fascias shows the whole range of work, from a single joint to a full replacement, so you can see where your fault belongs before anyone calls.
More questions
Is it cheaper to repair one gutter joint or replace the run?
A single dripping joint on a sound, level run is a small repair, and replacing the run would waste money. If joints are dripping all along it, or the fascia behind is soft, repairs would repeat and a new run is the fairer spend. You see the fault we found, and we tell you which way it goes.
Does a gutter clear-out count as a repair?
No, it is maintenance. A clear-out does not mend a dropped joint or a loose bracket, but it is the moment to spot them. If we find one while clearing, we tell you what we saw and what it would take, and you decide whether to go further.
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You'll get one written total price.