Target Painting & Contracting, Inc. (The Paint Doctors)

Target Painting & Contracting — doing business as The Paint Doctors — is an Andover outfit whose written record reads like a string of repeat callers: reviewer after reviewer names owner Joe personally, and more than one mentions using the crew a second time. Google shows 5 stars from 37 ratings and Angi lists 4.9 stars from 84, with written reviews running back to 2020. The specifics repeat across five years rather than cluster in one burst. In a 2024 review, a homeowner described a crew of three working more than seven hours straight to paint an entire first floor, stairwell, and second-floor hall in a single day, absorbing added trim work from the day before without issue. Full-interior jobs move just as fast elsewhere — a 2022 review describes an entire interior painted in two days without sacrificing quality, and another 2022 review has the exterior plus a backyard shed finished in four days. On exterior work, rot repair shows up repeatedly: a 2020 review describes a carpenter finding and replacing rotted wood instead of painting over it, and a 2022 review notes the same setup — a carpenter on-site to handle rotted wood as needed — on another exterior repaint. A 2024 review recounts a cedar-shingle house where the crew suggested options for shingles that hadn't aged evenly. There's one recurring point worth knowing before booking: a 2021 review mentions paying 50% of the quote upfront, months before the job actually started — worth pinning down the deposit and start-date terms in advance. A 2024 review also mentions a few spots of uneven paint coverage that the crew came back to fix; the reviewer still called the outcome satisfying, and it's the rare blemish across five years where no review fell below 4 stars. The read here is for a full-house interior or exterior repaint from a crew that also fixes rot rather than paints over it — get the deposit schedule and start date in writing before signing.