Essential Roofing Perth is run by Michael, who has spent his entire working life on roofs. Fifteen years ago he finished his apprenticeship with a roofing company, and he’s been roofing ever since — repairs, reroofs, slate, lead, flat roofs, storm damage, the lot. There isn’t much that can go wrong with a roof in this part of Scotland that he hasn’t been up close to and put right. He started Essential Roofing Perth for a simple reason: he was tired of hearing what other roofers had done to people.
Anyone who’s needed a roofer knows the feeling. It’s a job you can’t see, on a part of the house you can’t reach, quoted by someone you’ve never met.
You’re mostly just hoping you’re not being taken for a ride — and unfortunately, a lot of people are.
Not long ago, Michael was called out to a couple in St Andrews who’d already paid for their roof to be "sorted" — and it hadn’t been.
The previous lot charged them well over the odds and left the leak unresolved. Michael found the actual issue and fixed it properly — for less than they’d already been charged for work that didn’t hold.
That’s the whole reason this company exists. Not everyone gets a fair deal on their roof, but they should.
Essential Roofing Perth was started so that people in Perth and Perthshire have a roofer they can actually trust — one who tells them the truth, charges a fair price, and does it properly the first time.
A roof is one of the most expensive things most people ever spend money on, and it’s the one they know least about — because you only do it once or twice in your life. That’s exactly the situation that makes it easy to oversell, and plenty of firms do. We don’t, for two reasons: the first is that it’s simply wrong, and the second is more practical — Perth isn’t a big place, and our reputation is the only marketing that actually works here. If we sold someone a roof they didn’t need, that would get around — and rightly so. So when we look at your roof, you get photographs of everything we find, a written price for the work it genuinely needs, and an honest answer. Sometimes that answer is “it’s got years left in it yet, don’t spend the money.” We’re happy to be the roofer who says that.
We turn up when we say we will. On time, every time.
If something changes or gets delayed, you get a quick call — not silence.
We get up on the roof and into the loft — never just a quick look from the pavement.
We find where the water is actually getting in before we quote a single penny.
We show you the photographs of every problem we find where possible.
This way, you can see exactly what we saw and understand fully what you’re paying for.
We give you a written, itemised price.
Everything is listed separately, scaffolding included, so you can compare it properly against anyone else’s.
We clean up after ourselves and do our best to leave your property as we found it
If anything isn't done right on a new roof install, we come back and put it right — no hassle.
We’re based in Perth and cover Perth, Perthshire and Kinross-shire — and, as that couple in St Andrews found out, we’ll travel for the right job.
