Tom's Painting & Contracting LLC

Tom's Painting & Contracting works a tight patch of the North Shore — Marblehead, where it's based, plus Swampscott and Salem — and the company says the same family has run it for more than 40 years, handling painting, contracting and home restoration. Its Better Business Bureau profile goes a bit further, listing 54 years in business alongside an A+ grade. On Google the average sits at 3.7 from 6 ratings. A December 2022 review there, rated 2 stars, came from a customer who said they had put off posting for half a year and kept finding issues with an exterior paint project; that customer wouldn't recommend the company for exterior work, while saying they couldn't speak to its interior painting. The company also came up by name in a January 2026 r/northshore thread. Anyone hiring for outside work should put that 2022 review on the table: ask what prep and priming the quote actually covers, and how the company handles a callback if the paint lifts a season or two after the crew leaves. For a long-running local painter on the Marblehead–Swampscott–Salem stretch, they're an easy outfit to get to a walkthrough. Confirm licensing and insurance, get the scope and surface prep in writing, and ask for a couple of recent references for a job like yours.