SSM Painting

Four different customers in 2024 wrote about the prep rather than the paint: an extensive amount of prepping in one home, scraping and priming in another, and a November 2024 reviewer who said the time Sal spends on preparation shows the way a job should be done. SSM Painting is Salvador "Sal" Menjivar's company — he owns and runs it, according to the company's site, which describes residential and commercial interior and exterior work around Boston and says 20 years in business. The shop is in Everett; se habla español. Google carries 5 stars from 21 ratings, and Angi and HomeAdvisor each show a 5.0 from nine reviews. The newest account, from January 2026, describes a neat and punctual crew that was easy to talk to — and patient when the customer decided they didn't like the bathroom color. Sal is on the job himself: a November 2023 reviewer called him reliable, and on site working with his crew. People come back. A February 2024 customer had used SSM for multiple projects over ten years, including their whole home exterior, and a September 2024 Angi customer who had the kitchen and bathroom painted two years earlier hired the crew again for four bedrooms and a family room. Three others, writing in 2023 and 2024, came by a friend's or a neighbor's recommendation. The work runs past paint. In October 2021, a customer described rotten wooden trim boards around their deck replaced with PVC and painted to match the house; a November 2023 reviewer credited carpentry repairs alongside the painting; and in February 2024, after a building's plumbing project left a new section of bathroom wall, the crew re-installed the medicine cabinet and towel rack. A December 2023 customer needed a Pilates studio done in one day around a teaching schedule, and it was. Two things worth pinning down. Mid-job changes have gone smoothly — a December 2023 customer added to the scope partway through and said the crew pivoted — but agree the new price when you do. And tenure: the site says 20 years, while the Angi and HomeAdvisor pages say over 30 years in one place and 10 years in another, so ask Sal directly if that matters to you. For an interior repaint or an exterior job where the prep is what you are really buying — and for the trim carpentry that tends to come with it — this is a crew whose customers describe scraped, primed surfaces and a house cleaned up at the end of each day. Get the prep steps written into the quote, and ask what a mid-job addition costs.