BROTHERS G PAINTING & CARPENTRY

Brothers G Painting & Carpentry is a Medford, MA family operation — Adam and his brothers, per several reviews, sometimes four of them on a crew — that has built a track record on the harder jobs: restoring a neglected 1840s farmhouse, bringing century-old original cedar shingles back to bare wood before repainting, and replacing rotted trim and storm-damaged siding rather than just painting over it. What comes up again and again across 26 reviews from 2022 through this year is the itemized honesty of the estimates. A 2024 review described getting vague, flat-rate quotes from other painters that clearly hadn't accounted for carpentry, while Brothers G broke down materials and scope in detail. A 2022 customer needing a full exterior repaint plus construction work said the crew returned, even after being paid in full, to redo one detail exactly the way they'd asked. Several reviews describe repeat business — one customer, writing in 2023, said they'd hired the crew for a third project and watched a paint job from three years earlier still holding up. Beyond exterior and interior painting, the crew has done carpentry, deck staining, gutter cleaning, and kitchen cabinet refinishing. Recent activity has stayed clean: the three most recent reviews, from this spring, are all five stars, one describing an exterior repaint on a Salem house done fast and in detail with trim and storm-damaged siding replaced along the way. The one blemish is a one-star review from late 2025 that calls the business "really poor quality" without any specifics about what went wrong — worth asking about directly, though it stands alone against a long, detailed run of praise on both Google and Thumbtack. For an older or neglected house that needs real prep work — not just a fresh coat over old damage — this is a crew reviewers keep coming back to.