John W. Egan Co. Inc.

John W. Egan Co. is a West Newton outfit built around industrial and commercial coatings — the kind of crew called in for tanks, cleanrooms, and bridge structures rather than a living-room repaint. By its own account it's been doing coating work across New England for 78 years, with a service list that spans commercial painting, industrial coatings, fireproofing, resinous flooring, lead abatement, sandblasting, and water jetting. It says its territory covers Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont. There isn't much of an independent paper trail to check yet: Google shows just two ratings, both five stars, and that's essentially the entire public record on them right now. That's not a warning sign so much as a sign there's little outside verification to lean on — worth asking for references from a job similar to your own before committing, particularly since their listed work leans industrial and commercial rather than residential. Given the long-stated history, they're a reasonable call for a specialty coatings or larger-scale painting job in the region — just go in knowing there's little third-party track record yet, and confirm directly that they still take on work at your project's scale.