Aardvark Painting & Home Improvements INC.

Aardvark Painting & Home Improvements works out of 7 Fernwood Drive in Wilbraham and keeps a second Massachusetts address at 17 Chadwyck Lane in East Longmeadow. The Better Business Bureau records the business as started on 1 January 1964 and incorporated in January 2021, and lists Joshua E Long as its principal. On its own site and on its Angi and HomeAdvisor profiles the company describes itself as family owned and operated, with a family member involved in every phase of a project. Painting is the core of the work — interior and exterior, residential and commercial — and the company lists carpentry, textured-ceiling repair, pressure washing and wallpaper removal alongside it, with handyman and refinishing work through its website. Thirteen projects are shown in each of its Angi and HomeAdvisor galleries. The written customer record is short and dated. Three reviews, all from February and March 2017, all five stars, appear identically on Angi and HomeAdvisor — the same three accounts, not six. One homeowner in February 2017 described the company painting every room in her house, remodelling a finished basement, installing new doors and staining replacement windows, and singled out its help finding the right colour. Another that same month said the crew cleaned up so thoroughly you would not know they had been there. A third, in March 2017, was mid-project and said the results and advice had been excellent. Before booking, it is worth asking for references from work done recently, since the written accounts on file are nine years old, and worth reading the 5.0 average in that light: it rests on three ratings mirrored across two sites. The tenure claims also differ depending on where you look — the BBB start date of 1964 against the company's own description of itself as a fourth-generation painter with roots going back to 1907. This is a reasonable call for a Wilbraham- or East Longmeadow-area homeowner who wants a long-established local painter able to handle the carpentry and ceiling work around a repaint. Ask for recent addresses you can drive past, and confirm licensing and insurance directly with the company.