Five inch or six inch gutter?

Five inch handles most Tulsa houses. Six inch moves roughly forty percent more water and pairs with three by four inch downspouts, which is what we recommend where a long valley dumps onto one short run, on steep roofs, and on homes with a large single slope facing the prevailing storm direction. It costs a little more and it clogs less.

Do gutters need replacing when the roof does?

Not automatically. If the gutters are sound and the hangers are tight, they can stay. Hail dents the gutter face and downspouts at the same time it hits the shingles, so after a storm the two are often looked at together. Doing both in one visit saves you a second mobilization charge.

Are gutter guards worth it in Tulsa?

It depends on your trees. Under the mature pin oaks and elms through Midtown and Maple Ridge, a good mesh guard saves you two cleanings a year. Under nothing but sky in a newer Owasso subdivision, they are harder to justify. Cheap plastic inserts are a waste of money and make cleaning worse when they do clog.

Where should the water go once it leaves the downspout?

Away from the foundation. On the flat lots common through South Tulsa and Bixby, a downspout that drops straight onto the ground next to the slab pushes water back at the house. Extensions, splash blocks or a buried drain line moving water four to six feet out solve most of it cheaply.

Can you match my gutter color?

Usually. Aluminum coil comes in a wide standard range and we can match most common house trim colors closely. Bring us the old section or point us at the trim you want to match. Copper and steel are available too and are priced separately because the material cost is very different.

Gutter Installation and Repair in Tulsa, OK

A full seamless aluminum gutter replacement on a typical Tulsa house, around 150 to 200 feet with downspouts, runs $1,400 to $3,200. We roll the gutter on site so there are no joints across a run, hang it on hidden hangers screwed into the fascia and size the downspouts for the rain we actually get here.

Signs you need this

Water sheeting over the front edge during a heavy storm

Gutters pulling away from the fascia or sagging between hangers

Joints and end caps dripping long after the rain stops

Streaks or rot on the fascia board behind the gutter

Water pooling against the foundation or in a flower bed

Dents across the gutter face after a hail storm

Why gutter sizing matters here

Oklahoma rain arrives all at once. A single spring thunderstorm can drop two inches in under an hour, and that water has to leave the roof somewhere. A gutter that is technically the right length can still overflow if the downspouts are too few or too small, or if a long valley is unloading two slopes into one twelve foot run. We work out where the water concentrates before we quote, and size the run and the downspouts for the worst case rather than the average.

Seamless means rolled on site

The machine sits on your driveway and rolls aluminum coil into a continuous length, cut to the exact run. The only joints are the corners and the end caps. Sectional gutter from a home store has a joint every ten feet, and every one of those joints is a future drip and a future streak down your siding. We hand miter and seal the corners.

Hangers, fascia and what holds it up

Hidden hangers screwed into the fascia board hold far better than the old spike and ferrule system, which works loose as the wood expands and contracts through Oklahoma summers. We space them about every two feet and tighten that up on long runs, under valleys and along anything that carries snow load in a January ice event. Before any of that we check the fascia itself. On 1950s to 1970s Midtown ranches, the board behind a leaking gutter is often soft, and screwing a new gutter into rotten wood is a waste of your money. We will show you the board and price the repair separately.

Slope and the invisible details

A gutter needs about a quarter inch of fall over ten feet. Too little and water stands in the trough and breeds mosquitoes. Too much and it looks wrong from the street and the water races past the outlet. We set the slope with a line rather than by eye. Downspout outlets get punched cleanly and the drop cut to length so the elbows sit tight against the wall.

Hail, wind and the gutter face

Gutters take hail at almost the same angle as your roof and they dent visibly when the shingles may only be bruised. That makes them useful evidence in a storm claim, so if we are inspecting your roof after hail, the gutter faces and downspouts are photographed as part of the report. Wind is the other issue. A loose gutter section in a straight line wind event becomes a sail, and we have taken plenty of them out of hedges.

Working around the roof

If you are replacing the roof as well, gutters come off first or go on last depending on the detail. Drip edge needs to sit behind the back of the gutter so water cannot run down between the gutter and the fascia. Getting that sequence right is the difference between a dry fascia and one that rots quietly for five years.

How the work runs

Measure and check the fascia

We measure every run, check the fascia for soft or rotted board and look at where the water needs to land once it leaves the downspout.

Written price with the details

Gutter size, color, hanger spacing, downspout count and any fascia repair are written down before we order anything.

Roll and hang on site

The machine comes to your driveway and rolls each run in one continuous length. Hidden hangers go in every two feet, closer on long runs and under valleys.

What it typically costs

Job	Typical range
Gutter replacement Seamless aluminum, around 150 to 200 feet with downspouts	$1,400 to $3,200
Six inch oversized gutter Worth it under big valleys and steep roofs that dump a lot of water at once	Add 15 to 25 percent
Gutter repair or rehang Resloping a run, replacing hangers, resealing end caps and miters	$200 to $600
Additional downspout Including the elbows and the run down the wall	$90 to $220
Gutter guards Wide range. Mesh screens and solid covers are very different products	$6 to $16 per foot

Typical ranges for Tulsa and the surrounding area , reviewed September 2026. Every quote is written and fixed before work starts.