S.C.H. Painting

S.C.H. Painting is a Malden-based, family-owned painting and general-contracting outfit run by Scott Hurd. The company's own site says it specializes in Victorian and historic homes with more than forty years of family craftsmanship behind it, and the reviews back that framing up. On Google it holds 4.9★ from 46 ratings, and all 44 written reviews on file are quoted here. The historic-home work is specific and repeats often. A 2025 review describes an 1897 Victorian transformed from white with green trim into a six-color "painted lady," working with a hired color consultant; another 2025 review describes two layers of siding stripped off a 130-year-old Victorian and replaced with new clapboard, with hidden rot repaired and original details restored along the way at no extra charge. A 2025 reviewer with a 140-year-old house called SCH "one of a few I felt the need to tell the world about" after the crew found and repaired rotted areas as part of an exterior repaint. Carpentry and painting go together throughout the record — sills, molding and soffits replaced alongside a full repaint in a 2026 review — and the relationships run long: one customer who has used SCH four times across three houses over 14 years said, in a 2022 review, that a 14-year-old paint job "still actually looked good" when they finally repainted, mainly to get ahead of unrelated wood rot and water damage. Not every account is glowing. A 2024 review, rated 2 stars, describes being pleased with a repaint and new clapboards installed roughly six years earlier, but noticing slight fading and a pattern of primer bleeding through the new clapboard some years later — and says it took about a year for SCH to follow up once contacted. It's a clear outlier against an otherwise near-uniform run of five-star reviews. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor license is verified active. For a historic or older home needing real carpentry and rot repair alongside the paint, S.C.H.'s record is deep and specific; given the one dated complaint about a slow follow-up on a defect, it's worth asking upfront what their process is if something needs attention after the crew leaves.