Foxrock Painting, LLC

Foxrock Painting is a Newton outfit built for the whole job, not just the paint: across a 95-review, five-year record spanning Google, Angi, Houzz and BBB, its most-repeated story isn't color choice — it's what the crew does before the brush ever comes out. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is verified active, and it carries an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. That prep-first reputation shows in the specifics. In a June 2026 review, a homeowner describes the crew power-washing away decades of grime and scraping lead-based paint into tarps over three days before priming ever started. In a 2024 review, an owner of a 19th-century wooden Victorian describes a "delicate" scraping process followed by a carpenter replacing damaged trim and siding — the kind of remedial carpentry (rotted window frames swapped for PVC trim, damaged clapboard repaired, deck boards replaced) that turns up across dozens of reviews, on six-unit Victorian condos and single-family homes alike. The recent record keeps the same shape: 9 reviews in the last six months, all positive, describing tight-timeline jobs finished on schedule, a red house's paint matched with the right finish for direct sun exposure, and a two-story repaint that included carpentry on several rotted surfaces. Project manager Gordon Haughton comes up by name in review after review — daily check-ins, an itemized quote before work starts, and being upfront when extra carpentry adds to the cost. The company also takes on larger, multi-unit work: a South Boston condo association job that replaced rotted window frames and clapboard, and a six-unit Queen Anne Victorian condo project that combined exterior painting with light carpentry and color selection for a whole building. Crews are described cleaning up daily — vacuuming, putting materials away, and in one case taking care not to damage a client's garden beds while working. Nothing in the record runs against that pattern — no complaint, dispute, or mixed review shows up anywhere across five years and six review platforms. For an older home that needs real prep work alongside the paint job, or a multi-unit building coordinating one contractor for both trades, this is a well-documented, licensed operation to call.