CertaPro Painters of Newton

CertaPro Painters of Newton is Jeff Chin's operation, and the header numbers are hard to argue with: BBB A+, 4.9 stars across 146 Google ratings, plus perfect fives on Angi and Thumbtack. OLJASA, Inc., the entity behind the CertaPro name, also holds a Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office Minority Business Enterprise certification. What separates this record from a typical painting outfit is how much non-painting work shows up in it. Reviewers describe cabinet refinishing alongside a bathroom repaint, carpentry and rotted-wood replacement worked into an exterior job after woodpecker damage, and, in one unusual case, Jeff and his crew mounting home gym equipment on a cinder-block garage wall after working out the hardware needed for a safe install. On an old house with thick, likely lead-based paint cracking in the closets, the crew skipped scraping altogether and sheet-rocked over it instead, sealing the surface rather than raising dust. The commercial side of the business shows up too: an overnight repaint of a commercial space, the exterior and dozens of carpentry items on a multi-unit condo building, and an event space repaint for a Boston conference center. On the residential side, the pattern is repeat business — one homeowner's 2026 update describes CertaPro coming back for a kitchen touch-up, bathroom, living room and stairwell years after the original job, and a real estate agent's repeat referrals to the company come up more than once. The record isn't spotless. In a 2025 review, a customer whose one-room job needed three separate return visits to fix mistakes still described Jeff himself as understanding about it. In a 2023 review, a customer reported the estimator arriving nearly an hour late to a scheduled quote appointment without earlier notice. Both are outliers against a large, mostly detailed and positive file, but worth knowing about before locking in a start date. For anything from a single room to a full commercial repaint, especially a job that touches carpentry, lead-era paint, or an odd install, this is a crew with the range and the track record to handle it; just confirm the schedule and crew assignment up front given the two dated complaints above.