SSM Painting

SSM Painting is a one-name operation in the best sense: nineteen reviews stretching from 2018 to today, and every single one is five stars, with the same person — Sal Menjivar — showing up as the reason in almost all of them. The Everett-based company, which Sal owns and founded, says on its own site it's been at this for 20 years, working residential and commercial jobs across the Boston area. What separates SSM from a stack of generic five-star ratings is how specific the praise gets. A recent review describes Sal talking a homeowner through a mid-project color change on a bathroom without friction. Earlier ones get even more concrete: in a 2021 review, a customer described Sal's crew replacing rotted wooden deck trim with PVC, then returning that same fall to strip and repaint a wooden patio and install a custom handrail. In a 2024 review, one customer noted they'd hired SSM repeatedly over the past 10 years — an entire home exterior once, plus a running list of smaller interior jobs — and called the pricing consistently reasonable next to other quotes. The work itself keeps landing on the same notes: careful prep before the paint goes on, daily cleanup, and crews that show up when they say they will. A 2023 review recalls Sal's team finishing an entire Pilates studio repaint in a single day to work around the owner's teaching schedule; a 2018 review — the oldest on file — describes the same trash-and-debris cleanup habit that customers are still mentioning years later. Worth checking before you call: SSM's own materials don't agree on how long the company has been around. Its website says 20 years; its Angi and HomeAdvisor profiles show 10 years in one field and 'over 30' in another. None of that changes what the reviews describe, but it's worth asking Sal directly if the exact number matters to you. Beyond painting — clearly the core of the business, from full exterior repaints to interior touch-ups and epoxy floor coating — a couple of reviews describe real carpentry work: trim replacement and a built handrail, not just paint-adjacent patching. If a project is mostly paint with a side of trim or deck repair, that combination shows up in the record more than once. For anyone in the Boston area weighing painters with real depth behind the rating, SSM's history is unusually well-documented and consistent. The main open question is just the tenure discrepancy — everything else in the record points the same direction.