F.P Painting & Handyman

F.P Painting & Handyman is the East Boston outfit you call for the odd list — a wall to patch, a cart to assemble, mouse-sized holes to plug, a room to paint. Angi and HomeAdvisor carry the same profile for it: 4.8 out of 5 from 52 ratings, 22 recent projects, 25 years in the trade, family-owned. The written accounts are older, running from December 2017 to July 2018. The fullest of them, from July 2018, came from a homeowner who used Frank for three or four separate projects: building a platform so a new oven would fit its space, plugging holes where mice were getting in, patching part of a basement wall. A January 2018 customer described two workers who asked questions, came up with a better way to do one of the jobs, and cleaned up when they were done. Time is the thing two of those customers raised. In February 2018 one said a cart assembly took longer than he expected, though he stayed and finished it; in June 2018 another said the job ran long and it didn't seem like he had done that type of work before — and noted he wasn't charged for the extra hours. Both of them wanted the cardboard and packaging cut up for disposal, and a December 2017 customer said everything got done except hanging the mirror. Both directory profiles list a home improvement contractor licence, and both list the same service range: carpentry, interior and exterior painting, sheetrock install and repair, drywall, tile flooring, decks and fiberglass pool resurfacing. For a punch list of small interior jobs — painting, patching, drywall, assembly — one person covering all of it is the appeal here. Before booking, pin down how long the work should take and who hauls the packaging and debris away, since those are the two things his 2018 customers came back to.