Xactimate Code SFG|SFGGUTA — Soffits & Fascia

What it is

SFG|SFGGUTA is the Xactimate SEL code for repairing and replacing aluminum gutters and downspouts up to 5 inches, measured in linear feet (LF).

It belongs to the Soffits & Fascia (SFG) category. The description treats the gutter run and the downspout as one line — “Gutter / downspout” — for aluminum systems with a profile up to 5 inches, which covers the standard residential gutter sizes in the scopes ESXPress analyses.

It is the most common non-roofing code across processed claim scopes: SFG|SFGGUTA appears in 133 of the 358 scopes analysed (about 37.2%) and in 33 of the 61 converted customer scopes. ESXPress observed 270 line items, of which 269 (99.6%) were measured in LF.

When to use it

Use SFG|SFGGUTA when the scope calls for aluminum gutter or downspout work on profiles up to 5 inches. The observed act texts show three flavours of the same line: plain replacement (“Gutter / downspout - aluminum - up to 5””, 152 of the 270 sampled lines), repair-and-replace (“R&R Gutter / downspout - aluminum - up to 5””, 23 lines), and downspout-only (“Downspout - aluminum - up to 5””, 19 lines). The same SEL code carries all three; the scope of work is reflected in the line text.

The evidence also shows what estimators write alongside the gutter line instead of folding it in: “Gutter guards - micro mesh” (9 lines) and “Gutter apron” (6 lines) appear as separate lines in the same scopes. If a scope itemises guards or drip edge, each is its own line, and the gutter run itself still goes on SFG|SFGGUTA.

Two Completeness Advisor rules treat this code as an exclusion selector: R1-SHINGLE-GUTTERS and R51-CLN-GUTTER. In the flows where those rules fire, the Advisor does not suggest SFG|SFGGUTA as an addition — the scope already accounts for gutter work, so the code is excluded rather than recommended twice.

How to use it

Measure the gutter run and downspout in linear feet: 269 of the 270 observed line items (99.6%) used LF and a single line was written in EA. The unitAsUsed analysis puts LF at a 99.6% share, making it the safe unit for conversion; quantity is the combined length of gutter plus downspout in feet.

The dominant line text is “Gutter / downspout - aluminum - up to 5”” (152 of the 270 sampled lines, 56.3%). Estimators also write the R&R variant when the line is explicitly repair-and-replace (23 lines), the downspout-only variant when the downspout is itemised separately (19 lines), and shorthand such as “Gutter/downspout - aluminum” (10 lines) or “Gutter - aluminum - up to 5”” (8 lines). Spelling and spacing vary in the raw lines — a double-space variant (“Gutter - aluminum - up to 5””) appears 8 times — which is exactly why ESXPress normalises act text when mapping scopes.

Although the category is Soffits & Fascia, the co-occurrence data below shows the strongest pairings in real scopes are roof vents (RFG|RFGVENTE, 33 scopes), dump trailers (DMO|DMODTRLR, 28 scopes), window screens (WDR|WDRSCRN<, 27 scopes), and paint-masking (PNT|PNTMASKLF, 17 scopes).

Often used together

Two kinds of related codes are listed below. First, codes that appear in the same scopes as SFG|SFGGUTA — co-occurrence measured across the claim scopes processed through ESXPress with support of at least 3 scopes and lift of at least 1.5. Second, other frequently used Soffits & Fascia (SFG) category codes, ranked by how often they appear in the analysed scopes. Descriptions are from the ESXPress code reference.

• RFG|RFGVENTE — Roofing
• DMO|DMODTRLR — Demolition
• WDR|WDRSCRN< — Wood Railing
• PNT|PNTMASKLF — Painting
• RFG|RFGARMV — Roofing
• PNT|PNTGUTG — Painting
• SFG|SFGBIDITM — Soffits & Fascia
• SFG|SFGGRD — Soffits & Fascia
• SFG|SFGGUTG — Soffits & Fascia
• SFG|SFGFACM8 — Soffits & Fascia

Real-world examples

Each example is an anonymised line from a processed claim scope: the exact operation text and unit of measure adjusters wrote, with the observed line-item count. The count is line frequency across the analysed samples — never a price and never a quantity from a specific claim.

• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Gutter / downspout - aluminum - up to 5"”, LF, qty 152.
• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Downspout - aluminum - up to 5"”, LF, qty 19.
• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Gutter/downspout - aluminum”, LF, qty 10.
• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Gutter guards - micro mesh”, LF, qty 9.
• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Gutter - aluminum - up to 5"”, LF, qty 8.
• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “R&R downspout - aluminum - up to 5"”, LF, qty 8.