I've never written a bad review about a…
I've never written a bad review about a company but hard not to feel like i've been scammed by a cowboy roofer here. In Autumn/winter 2025 we had a quote for a leaky gutter repair with wooden fascia to be repaired where bits had been rotten from dripping water. Then it should have been cleaned down to a paintable finish. (Written pretty much like this in the quote) We paid just under £6k for the work carried out. As of now it's still leaking in various bits of the gutter. They came out on March (three months after their supposed fix) which was a supposed 'goodwill gesture' put a wee bit of coating inside and left. They give no work guarantee on roof repairs and the MD Paul sent me an email saying that old cast iron gutters basically can't be fixed. Shame they felt happy to take our money and never mentioned that when quoting. Then today our painter came to complete our external paint work - there were huge chunks of wood not repaired at all with holes in the wooden fascia. You couldn't really see it from the ground due to the old paint job (but someone with a ladder would have i.e them!) They also failed to prepared for painting - as per their quote, so I've paid our painter more to do this today. So I'm really disappointed, literally not one bit of the work carried out by Essence was to the quote specification. £6k down the drain and we need to get someone else to rectify both the gutter and joinery. Happy to share emails and pictures with anyone thinking of using this company. We've spend a fortune on this renovation and had a lovely relationship with other contractors but this is the first company to be so abysmally
bad. Like I said I don't leave bad reviews but this company has genuinely left a bad taste in my mouth for wasting our hard earned money. We were duped by such great reviews. 😔








