PROTTAS PAINTING

Prottas Painting is a one-man, Natick-based outfit that Glenn Prottas has run himself for decades — his own site says over 30 years, while BBB's file puts it at 41, and either way this is a long-running, single-owner operation with three employees on the books. The five written reviews on file all run through 2020 and 2021, and every one of them is five stars. In a 2021 review, a homeowner described Glenn's crew repainting four rooms with high ceilings and a stairwell, calling out his attention to detail preparing the walls and a few unprompted extras — painting old heating grates, scraping decades-old paint off the wood floors. Another, from 2020, had hired him for five projects across two homes going back to 1995, and specifically noted his prices stayed fair even after comparison shopping with other contractors. The one thing worth asking about directly: Massachusetts' registry shows his home improvement contractor license (#120909) as expired. BBB still lists him at an A+ grade, though he isn't BBB-accredited, and his own site and Angi profile both describe interior and exterior painting with some light carpentry and repair work mixed in. That combination — a genuinely long track record with consistently strong feedback, set against a lapsed state registration and a review history that hasn't been refreshed publicly in a few years — makes this one worth a direct conversation before booking: confirm the license status and current availability, since nothing on file speaks to recent work.