TJ Painting & Cleaning Inc.

TJ Painting & Cleaning is a Rowley crew that's grown well beyond ordinary house painting — alongside interior and exterior jobs, Rafael and Tony's team has built a name for epoxy garage-floor coating, and the carpentry side (rotted trim, clapboard repair, wallpaper removal) shows up again and again as its own selling point. With 138 reviews on file dating back to 2021 and a nearly unbroken run of five-star ratings, this is one of the more established painting outfits on the North Shore. The epoxy floor work comes up constantly in the write-ups: a 2025 review describes a 4,000-square-foot warehouse floor redone with epoxy, another from 2025 has the crew fitting in a last-minute basement floor before Christmas, and several two-car-garage jobs get singled out by name. On the painting side, the specifics repeat too — full exterior repaints, whole-interior jobs finished in under a week, kitchen cabinets repainted to match an existing color scheme in a 2026 review, and a 2025 review describing detailed board-and-batten woodwork worked into the tight corners of a small bathroom. Several customers are repeat business: a 2024 review describes hiring the company a third time, at a different property, for a moisture-damage repair, and another 2024 review mentions booking them for exterior work the following spring after a satisfying interior job. The one clear miss in the record is a 2022 review describing foliage damage during construction, trash and nails left on the property, downspouts not replaced correctly, and a slow single-worker pace that stretched the job to a week and a half — the reviewer also felt the owner should have offered to fix the issues without being asked. It's an outlier against the volume of praise, but it's real and specific. One more thing worth checking before booking: the state registry shows this company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration as expired — worth asking directly about its current status. Otherwise, for a North Shore homeowner weighing a full repaint, a garage-floor refresh, or trim and carpentry work in the same visit, this is a crew with a long, heavily-reviewed history of doing all three.