Daddy And Junior Paint, Inc

Daddy And Junior Paint works out of Wilmington and says it has been serving the Boston area since 1999. HomeAdvisor rates it 4.9 across 123 ratings — 92% at five stars — which is a lot of volume for a small painting outfit. The work is interior and exterior painting plus the drywall and plaster repair that usually comes with it: patching, skim coating, finishing, pressure washing decks, wallpaper removal and wood repair. The written accounts, all from 2017 and 2018, are unusually specific about repair work rather than just paint. In November 2018 a homeowner had a ceiling ruined by a leaky roof taken out along with wall panelling across roughly 700 square feet, then resheetrocked, mudded, painted and finished with trim and crown molding. In August 2017 a flood-stained ceiling got three coats of oil-based sealer and two of ceiling paint, with damaged walls in another room repaired and colour-matched, all inside five hours. A December 2018 reviewer described three rooms drywalled, wallpaper removed and walls skim coated. Speed and responsiveness come up constantly in those years. A June 2018 customer called on a Tuesday, got an estimate Wednesday and had the job finished by Thursday afternoon. An August 2017 homeowner got a callback within a day of leaving a voicemail and a quote on the spot. Reviewers also describe work beyond the contract: in October 2017 a crew painted a whole bathroom at no extra charge, hired a cleaning company at the end, put up plastic barriers to contain plaster dust and reassembled beds after moving furniture back. Two things temper that. First, a July 2018 reviewer gave four stars and described the opposite of the usual account: in places only one coat appeared to have gone on, with white primer showing through and a splotchy close-up finish, plus drips on the radiators — all of which she and her husband fixed themselves rather than call the crew back. She wrote that she would not hire them again. Second, and more telling, the company's published reply to her was combative, saying it would not do business with 'this type of people'. That is how the firm handled its one detailed criticism in public. The other caveat is age. Every written account on file is from 2017 or 2018 — nearly eight years old — so none of it describes how the company works now. Ask for two or three references from the past year, and put the number of coats and a walkthrough sign-off in writing before starting.