Mulligan Painting & Contracting

Mulligan Painting & Contracting is a Medford, Massachusetts painting and general-contracting company that's been run by Gerry Mulligan long enough that at least one client has kept him on speed dial for nearly two decades — reviewers keep circling back to the same thing: Gerry personally supervises every job, and he and his crew clean up before they leave each day. The written record runs from 2018 through this year and tells a consistent story across bathroom rebuilds, basement rebuilds, exterior clapboard replacement, gutter work, and of course painting -- interior, exterior, cabinets, kitchens. One longtime client's 2023 review described "almost 20 years" of Gerry maintaining their house across major projects; a more recent one, from this spring, describes him and his crew painting a house while carefully protecting the plants and outdoor furniture the whole time. The most recent reviews, from this summer, describe interior painting paired with new trim and tile work in a living room and kitchen, and separately, exterior painting combined with scraping a roof overhang and repointing a foundation's cinder blocks -- the kind of varied, hands-on work that shows up throughout the record. The numbers back up the reputation at scale: Angi shows a 4.9★ average from 123 ratings and HomeAdvisor shows 4.9★ from 117, 98% of them five stars. The company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor license (#169140) is verified active with the state, and it's a BBB A+ accredited business since 2010. One thing worth asking about directly: BuildZoom's records also show an earlier company license number that's since been cancelled, alongside the current active one -- not unusual for a business this age, but worth a quick question. The company's own tenure claims don't quite agree with each other either — its homepage says "over 40 years," its About page says "over 30," and the BBB lists 34 — so pin down a specific founding date if that matters to you, though by any of those counts this is a genuinely long-established operation. For interior or exterior painting, especially paired with related carpentry or general-contracting work, in the Medford area, this is a contractor with an unusually deep, personal, and consistently positive track record behind the name.