Richard's Painting of Swansea

A house that hadn't seen paint in ten or twelve years got several days of sanding and scraping before the first coat went on. That detail — the prep, not the finished color — is what keeps surfacing in reviews of Richard's Painting of Swansea. The company works out of 89 Clark Ln in Swansea and takes interiors and exteriors alike: walls and ceilings, kitchen cabinets, decks and pergolas, popcorn-ceiling removal, wallpaper removal and pressure washing. Two names run through nearly every review: Pete and Stacey. Customers describe one of the owners on site each day the crew was there, and Stacey handling scheduling, checking in mid-job and answering questions without rushing off. The Google page sits at 4.9 across 56 ratings, and ten of those reviews have landed in the last six months, none of them negative. The written history runs back to 2023 and covers 48 reviews. The jobs behind them are varied: a 2024 customer had popcorn ceilings stripped in under two days; a 2025 reviewer had a deck and a large pergola painted; another 2025 exterior job meant replacing rotted wood and dealing with heavy peeling before any repainting happened. Writing in 2024 and 2025, homeowners came back to the same two things over and over — quiet crews inside the house, and a thorough cleanup at the end. Two one-star reviews from 2024 are worth reading before booking. In October 2024 a customer described a sloppy interior job: ceiling paint left short around light fixtures, wall paint splashed onto kitchen cabinets, tape that pulled finish off the walls when it came up, and the wall behind the refrigerator missed entirely. In July 2024 a different homeowner wrote that after two scheduled appointments and repeated follow-ups, the written estimate never arrived. Its BBB page carries an A+ and the business is accredited there. BBB also lists a Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation registration number for the company with a 2027 expiration — that is BBB's listing, not something confirmed against the state registry, so confirm it directly with OCABR if the job is a large one. They are the call for an older exterior that needs the paint taken back to sound wood before anything new goes on; that prep is what customers keep paying them for. Ask for the estimate in writing, and pin down the interior finish details — fixtures, cabinet lines, the wall behind the appliances — before the crew starts.