Nelson Painting

Nelson Painting has closed out the first half of 2026 with fourteen straight five-star reviews and not a single negative one — a run that fits a company now working its third generation. The business is based in Plymouth and says it's been painting the South Shore and Cape Cod since 1960, founded by Burt Nelson and now run by his son Marc, with a third generation, Marc Nelson Jr., working alongside him on the crew. This year's reviews back that history up with specifics rather than just praise. In May, a customer described a crew patching failing woodwork before a repaint that left the house "looking like new." In another May job, a full interior repaint had four named painters — Matt, Tyler, Tim and Zach — moving room to room, with the homeowner calling out how carefully they treated the house throughout. Several reviewers this year mention having used Nelson for years, sometimes decades, which tracks with a 109-review history stretching back to 2022 across six sources: 5★ on Google from 133 ratings, a perfect 5.0 from 22 ratings on Houzz, and a BBB file carrying an A+ grade. Houzz also lists a PDCA membership and several Houzz awards and badges — recognition that shows up consistently across more than one platform rather than a single glowing source. Its Massachusetts home-improvement-contractor license is active with the state, and the company holds an EPA Lead-Safe certification — relevant if the job is on a pre-1978 house, which covers a lot of the older housing stock around Plymouth. One thing worth asking about: despite the A+ grade, Nelson Painting isn't a BBB-accredited business — accreditation is a separate status BBB tracks from the letter grade, so it's fair to ask what that distinction means in practice before assuming the two are the same thing. This reads like the crew to call for a full interior or exterior repaint, especially on an older home where the prep work — sanding, caulking, patching failing wood — matters as much as the paint itself. Worth confirming what the estimate covers if rot or old caulking turns up mid-job, since handling exactly that kind of prep is what this year's reviewers keep pointing to.