UB PAINTING & RENOVATIONS, INC

UB Painting & Renovations, based in Revere and previously known as JGM Painting, is the kind of outfit homeowners call for a full repaint job — stripping old wallpaper, tackling a cracking ceiling, or repainting an entire multi-room renovation — under owner Ubi Barbosa. HomeAdvisor and Angi both list the same nine reviews, rated 4.8 out of 5, running from 2009 through 2011. What stands out across those years is consistency. In a 2010 review, a homeowner described a crew that stripped wallpaper, fixed a cracking, bubbling ceiling, and painted several rooms and trim during a larger renovation, calling the work good quality and on time. Another customer in 2011 wrote that the exterior work had held up against the weather for a couple of years — and that Barbosa didn't add extra charges after finding more painting was needed on the roof than the original estimate covered. Several reviewers describe the crew as neat, courteous, and easy to work with, whether painting a brick exterior's trim in 2009 or handling ongoing repair work on a condo. The one recurring gripe, raised in a couple of 2011 reviews, is price — one homeowner called the hourly-rate billing expensive even while praising the work itself. Worth knowing before calling: the company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, verified against the state registry, is now expired, and every review on file predates 2012, so there is no recent, independently sourced account of current pricing, scheduling, or crew quality to weigh against those older ones. UB Painting & Renovations reads like a solid pick for a homeowner who wants a careful, detail-oriented paint job and is comfortable confirming current licensing and rates directly before booking, given how much time has passed since the reviews on file.