VanGuard Pro Painters

Vanguard Pro Painters is a painting company based on Mount Pleasant Street in Saugus, and the work homeowners describe hiring it for is overwhelmingly full house repaints — exteriors on clapboard, cedar-shingle, vinyl and even asbestos-sided homes, plus interior rooms, kitchens and cabinets. Owner Felipe DeSouza is named directly in most of the reviews people leave, usually as the person on site running the crew day to day. The company's Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration, number 209421, is verified active with the state registry in the name Vanguard Pro Painters LLC. The theme that repeats across four years of reviews is preparation and the carpentry that goes with it. Homeowners describe pressure washing, scraping and priming before painting, and crews pulling out rotted trim, clapboards and window frames and replacing them as part of the job — one customer wrote that rotted lumber and old insulation behind the clapboards were removed and rebuilt before anything was repainted, with photos sent along the way so they knew what was happening. Another had shutters installed and damaged wood trim repaired alongside a repaint on a house with asbestos siding, which the crew handled without incident on a tight lot close to neighbors. Scheduling and site conduct come up nearly as often. Reviewers report on-time starts, jobs finishing on or ahead of schedule — one three-day interior, one one-day siding repair — and thorough cleanup at the end of each day. A remodeling contractor in Burlington says he subs all of his interior and exterior painting to them, which is a different kind of vouch than a homeowner's. The reviews are also a fair signal of how deep the history is: 71 reviews spanning 2023 to 2026 across six sources, 19 of them in the last six months, and the platform averages line up — Google publishes 5 stars from 48 ratings, and Angi and HomeAdvisor each publish 5.0 from 89. The Angi and HomeAdvisor listings are the same review set republished, so treat them as one record rather than two. Worth asking about before you book: several jobs described in reviews go well past painting — a full kitchen renovation with tile, ceiling insulation and drywall after a water leak, and vinyl siding replacement. Those are real jobs this crew took on, but they sit outside painting, so pin down exactly who is doing that portion of your project and under what registration. For an exterior repaint that needs real prep and rot repair on an older Greater Boston home, this is a well-documented, recently active choice. Confirm the registration number yourself, and get the carpentry scope in writing.