Fresh Coat Painters of Andover

Fresh Coat Painters of Andover is a one-person franchise operation working out of Methuen, and the job list is exactly what the name promises: interior rooms, exteriors, ceilings, doors, kitchen cabinets, wallpaper and popcorn-ceiling removal, deck staining, the occasional garage floor coating. BBB names Fadi Francis as the owner and lists one employee. How long the business has been at it depends on which page you read — Angi and HomeAdvisor both say nine years, Porch says six, and the BBB file was opened in October 2023. The review history runs 2022 through 2025 and is unusually consistent for a shop this size: 61 ratings averaging 4.9, with 95% of them at five stars and the remainder at three and four. Two themes carry through those years. One is the estimate — customers describe pricing broken out item by item, with room to trim the scope to fit a budget. The other is what the crew leaves behind: furniture back in place, no mess, work areas covered. Reviewers also tend to name the individual painter who did the work rather than the company, which is the shape you see when the same small crew keeps coming back. Two things are worth pinning down before you call. First, the licence. A trade licence number, 200396, shows up on Houzz, Angi and HomeAdvisor with an expiry in January 2027 — but that is the directories printing what the business told them, and Angi's own footer says as much. It has not been confirmed against the Massachusetts registry, so ask for the registration number and check it with the state's Office of Consumer Affairs yourself. Second, the ratings are thinner than the totals suggest: Angi and HomeAdvisor publish byte-for-byte the same 61 reviews, so that is one body of customer opinion appearing twice, and Porch's 5.0 from 160 is openly assembled from other websites rather than reviews left there. Houzz has three. The BBB page is its own small puzzle: an A+ grade on a profile that states plainly the business is not BBB accredited, with length of time operating given as the reason for the grade. Good fit if you want rooms repainted or cabinets refinished by a small crew that quotes in detail and cleans up after itself. Before booking, get the estimate itemised in writing and verify that licence number directly with the state.