Pioneer Painters LLC

Ninety Google ratings, and not one of them sits below five stars. What customers keep describing, though, isn't the paint — it's the project manager. Pioneer Painters puts one on each job, reviewers name him (Jay) over and over, and the line that repeats through 2026 is that somebody texts you every day about where the work stands. The company works out of 480 Bliss Road in Longmeadow and covers Hampden County plus Hartford County, CT, painting interiors and exteriors for homes and businesses along with cabinets, trim, decks and power washing. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #203048, is active in the state registry. BBB grades it A+, though it isn't BBB Accredited. The written history runs from 2021 to 2026 — 89 reviews across seven sources, 25 of them in the past six months, none of them negative. The jobs are ordinary and specific, which is what makes them useful: a whole-house interior finished in a week (December 2025), popcorn ceilings removed and ceiling cracks repaired across two weeks (January 2026), power washing plus scrape-sand-prime-finish spot repair on a project this June, exterior brick on a house and garage in May. Owners Keegan and Tighe Dudeck turn up by name in review after review, usually as the ones who came out to quote. One April 2026 account is worth the detail. A homeowner whose 2024 exterior had started to peel in a few places called Keegan under a two-year warranty; from that call to the repair took three days. Another, in March, describes a next-day estimate and a crew on site the following day to repaint a room for a son coming home from hospital. The only wrinkle anyone has raised is queue timing: a homeowner writing in December 2023 said the crew started a day late because the previous job ran over — and then finished half a day early. If your job has a hard date, ask where you sit in the schedule, and get the warranty term written into the contract rather than assumed. For repainting in and around Longmeadow and Springfield, the record here is unusually clean: a current state registration, five straight years of reviews, and a named person who answers when something needs fixing.