Barry Bros Painting

Barry Bros Painting works out of 150 Jackson St in Methuen, Massachusetts, with Kevin James Barry listed as the owner and the business also trading under the name Barry Bros. Painting. The Better Business Bureau puts the start of the business at 1 January 1948, which would make it 78 years old. Worth knowing that the bureau's own file on the company was opened only in 2001, so the decades before that rest on the company's own account rather than on anything recorded at the time. The work described runs wider than the name suggests. Alongside interior and exterior painting for both homes and commercial buildings, the company is listed as doing high-pressure washing, restorations, wallpapering, plastering, carpentry, masonry, walkways and chimneys. Homeowners hiring for a repaint should know they are dealing with a mixed trades outfit rather than a painting-only crew, and should ask which of that range the company actually self-performs. The Better Business Bureau grades the business A+, its top band. The same profile states plainly that Barry Bros Painting is not BBB accredited; the grade and the accreditation are two separate things, and only the grade applies here. No customer star rating or review is published alongside it, so no rating is offered on this page. Two things are worth raising directly before signing. The BBB entry describes the company as employing ten people in one place and one person in another, and files it as a sole proprietorship, so ask who will actually be on your job. And the bureau lists no licence or registration number at all, noting only that this industry may require one - so ask for the home improvement contractor registration and verify it with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation yourself rather than taking any directory's word for it.