Barry Brothers Painting & Carpentry

Barry Brothers Painting & Carpentry is a Methuen outfit that BBB's file dates back to 1948, run today by owner Kevin Barry — though the BBB record itself was only opened in 2001, so take the founding year as the company's own long-standing claim rather than something BBB independently verified. BBB rates the business A+, though it is not BBB-accredited, and its profile lists a wide trade mix beyond painting: wallpapering, plastering, carpentry, masonry, walkways and chimney work. Only two written reviews are on file, both detailed and both from repeat or near-repeat customers. In a June 2026 review, a homeowner who'd used Barry once before, more than six years earlier, hired him again to paint the whole house and also repair rotted siding and rebuild rotted deck framing and steps — work another contractor had done poorly the year before — plus add downspouts to redirect roof runoff. A late-2025 review described Kevin and his crew painting a home's exterior and doing woodworking despite hot weather, patiently working through paint-color samples with the homeowner. BBB's own listing contains a wrinkle worth knowing about: its narrative text describes 10 employees while its structured business-details block lists just 1, and it names the entity as a sole proprietorship — worth a direct question about crew size for a larger job. With only two reviews to go on, ask for a few current references, especially for any of the masonry or chimney work BBB lists but that isn't reflected in either review yet.