Teddy's Painting

Teddy's Painting has been painting houses in Haverhill since 1984 - 42 years, by the count on its BBB profile - and it is still a one-man shop on paper, with a single employee listed there. The two people who wrote about the work came back to the same thing: the number Teddy quoted was the number they paid. In July 2022 a customer had the trim of their house scraped and repainted, called the estimate fair, and said the painters arrived on time and were courteous. A 2023 customer made the same point about pricing and said they would send anyone needing a paint job his way. That is the whole written history - two reviews, in 2022 and 2023. The Google page averages 3.5 stars across eight ratings, so several people scored the work without writing anything, and those scores sit below the two reviews you can actually read. At the BBB the grade is A+, with no accreditation and no complaints on file. One piece of paperwork to settle before booking: the Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration on file for the business, number 112916, comes back expired at the state registry. Massachusetts exempts painting-only contractors from that registration, so it may not bear on a straight repaint - but if your job reaches past painting into carpentry or siding repair, ask what registration and insurance he carries now, in writing. For a straightforward repaint at a quoted price, what the two customers describe is exactly that: a fair number, a crew that turned up, and trim that came back right. Ask how many days a one-man operation needs for your square footage before you commit to a start date.