Overall we ended up getting a great price and quality installation, because the Owner went out of his way to make an extra effort for us. However happy I am with the final result, I must disclose the process to get there was very stressful and inhibitive to me ever using this company again.
When we originally requested an estimate (late July), it was almost impossible to schedule an appropriate time for someone to come out. I actually found two other gutter installation companies to provide estimates before successfully scheduling an appointment with Marshall Roofing. When the actual estimators came out to measure, however, they were very quick, professional, knowledgeable and gave me an excellent price. I was impressed and signed the estimate on the spot.
Scheduling the work became the next show stopper. I was under the impression the work would be performed in a couple weeks, but I never heard from them. Just shy of a couple months later, I was out of the country and finally received communication from their office saying the installer recommended drip edge. I could not return the call due to my location, but was able to send an email response. I asked for a whole-house quote on drip-edge installation (so I could decide whether to install it myself or pay them to install it), and for a quote on fascia trim metal repair (since the previous quote involved replacing the wood too, which I decided to do myself; I still needed metal to cover the new wood though). Yet again, I never received a response.
The work was finally performed on September 27th (a full two months later). This was to my surprise, since I never heard back on a modified quote. No one responded to my emails and phone calls, and then work was performed that I didn't authorize (by signing the original proposal I had authorized gutter installation only; but there was subsequent documented communication showing that a modified quote would be required before work could be performed). I quickly inspected the work. Instead of replacing the fascia trim metal, they took the old damaged wrong-sized metal I had folded up next to my trash cans and re-nailed it back to the wood I just replaced, and covered it with the new gutters. They installed drip edge I hadn't yet agreed to pay for. But they didn't install it everywhere, and some sections of the gutters were leaking water behind the gutter because of it.
I contacted the Owner. He said they would send somebody out to go over the job with me, and find a way to make everything right. A nice helpful man came out shortly thereafter to discuss my concerns about the work. He said the reason the gutters were leaking in the back is because they hadn't completed the drip-edge installation because they ran out of metal, but planned to come back to finish the job. He also said they could easily replace the fascia trim metal that they inappropriately installed. I told them that all sounded great, but very specifically before any more work was to be performed, I wanted to know exactly how much everything would cost.
The owner called me afterwards and I voiced my concerns about how expensive all the add-ons were going to make the whole job. I told him I would have either chosen a lower option on the initial estimate to accommodate the additional costs (if someone had ever gotten back to me), or I would have installed the drip edge and fascia trim metal myself before the gutter installation was done, if I had known what the final price would be. I told him my budget for this project was originally $1500, but I might be able to stretch to $1750. He said they would work with me to try to make sure everything was made right.
While I was waiting on a modified proposal the next week, my wife calls me from home saying they were back at my house trying to finish the installation. The all but enraged me, as I very specifically said I wanted a price quote for everything before any more work was to be done on my house. I immediately called the owner, yet again. He told me he authorized them to complete the job--finish all the drip-edge installation, replace the fascia trim, etc--and that they were going to just charge me the $1750 I mentioned in my previous phone call as the 'top of my budget'. This also irked me quite a bit because this was yet another example of miserable communication skills on their part. However, I understood that all this work being performed for $1750 was actually a pretty good deal. So I calmed down and agreed to it.
The work looks great, there are no leaks, and at the end of the day I got a great value for the price. But my C-grade for Responsiveness is an average between the A-grade I give the owner for eventually making everything right and the F-grade I give their office for the unacceptable total breakdown in communication. I probably won't do business with this company again, not because their work and prices are bad, but because I shouldn't have to work directly with the owner to work through countless issues to get what I wanted, months after I needed it.