Highpoint Painters

Forty-four Google ratings, every one five stars since 2022 — and the reviews keep naming the same person: Ralph Guarino, who the company's own site says runs Highpoint Painters out of Walpole, with a second base in Cumberland, Rhode Island, covering towns along the Massachusetts/Rhode Island line. Recent reviews from this spring describe the same process older ones do: a proper prep job before any paint goes on — power washing, scraping, sanding, and priming — patching cracks and imperfections, and, per a 2023 review, a crew that applies with brushes rather than a sprayer for a higher-quality finished look. Jobs run mostly exterior repaints of older homes — a 2023 review from Joe and Maryann Amara described a full repaint of a 100-year-old colonial in North Attleboro — plus interior rooms, and one recent review mentions carpentry done alongside an exterior paint job. In a late-2025 review, a homeowner who compared several companies said Ralph was the only one who raised a specific paint choice for an older home. Communication comes up almost as often as the paint job itself: across four years of reviews, homeowners describe Ralph as responsive to calls and questions and willing to adjust plans mid-project. Nothing in the 36 reviews on file describes a complaint about the work, a scheduling problem, or a cost surprise. The company's Better Business Bureau profile carries an A+ rating and lists ten years in business, though it isn't a BBB-accredited business. Highpoint's own site states it holds a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration (#207766) and a Rhode Island contractor registration (#GC-51254) — the company's own claims, not numbers checked against the state registries. For a homeowner weighing an exterior repaint on an older house that needs real prep work, not just a fresh coat, this is a small, owner-run outfit with a clean multi-year record and a specific, describable process behind it. Worth getting the estimate in writing and asking about current lead time, the way earlier customers describe Ralph providing.