ProTEK Painters

ProTEK Painters is a Newton shop run by John Guarino, and the header numbers match the size of the operation: BBB-accredited with an A+ grade, 4.9 stars across 115 Google ratings, and 4.8 stars across 113 Angi ratings. One reviewer put a number on the loyalty behind those figures, calling them our go-to painters for 25 years now and describing every crew as prompt, friendly, fair and skillful. The written record backs that up with specifics rather than adjectives. Reviewers describe a two-unit Victorian getting a full exterior repaint alongside new railings and balusters on three porches and a large amount of rotted wood replaced; an old Victorian home with peeling, cracked ceilings prepped so methodically that the cracks disappeared entirely; and a customer who first hired the crew a decade earlier, then again for a shingle-sided repaint power washed, scraped, primed and painted in two days with careful attention to overhangs, sashes, doors and railings. More routine jobs come up just as often: wallpaper removed before a repaint, a kitchen fully repainted including cabinets, and decks pressure washed and re-stained. A recurring thread is how the crew communicates before and during a job: clear estimates, quick replies, and a walkthrough at the end to list any touch-ups. John himself shows up for quotes and is named directly in most reviews, typical of a business where the owner still runs the estimating. One dated account is worth knowing about: in a 2020 Angi review, a customer whose $10,700 exterior job held up well at first reported the paint peeling around the whole house four years later, and felt ProTEK's response to a repair quote fell short — telling the reviewer the primer used was substandard and the original siding wasn't scraped and sanded enough. ProTEK's public reply tells it differently: that the customer had declined a recommended siding replacement over cost at the time, and that it later offered to make repairs at its own expense. It's the one substantive complaint in an otherwise deep, consistently positive record, and worth asking about surface prep and paint longevity on an older or weathered exterior before signing on. For a full exterior or a large interior job, especially on an older Massachusetts home, the volume and consistency of the record here is hard to match — just confirm prep standards for aging siding given that one account.