J L Painting

J L Painting is a family-run painting contractor working out of Peabody, self-described as operating since 1986 across the North Shore, Greater Boston, and into parts of New Hampshire. The business is small and owner-operated — Jim, known to customers as "Jimmy," is the one people talk about, quoting jobs and often working them himself. The handful of reviews on record all describe direct experiences with Jimmy, spanning 2021 through 2024. In a 2022 review, a customer said he quoted a fence-staining job plus an entire second floor, then executed the plan as promised — even painting two extra doors in a man cave at no charge. A 2021 review described his team repainting a whole house interior, covering over dark walls with multiple prior coats, in under three days. Reviews from 2023 and 2024 kept coming back to the same idea: he does more than what's quoted. There's no review activity in the last two years to say how the business is doing today. BBB's page shows no rating and no complaints on file, and the company's own site puts the founding year a couple years apart from BBB's — 1986 on the website, 1988 on BBB. The company lists OSHA and EPA certifications. For a smaller residential paint job with direct owner involvement, the history here reads well; it's worth confirming current availability and pricing since the written record is a few years old.