W.J. Skouras & Co., Inc.

W.J. Skouras & Co. is the kind of business its own history claims to be — a family painting outfit founded in Peabody in 1955, now run by second-generation president Billy Skouras, with his son John recently joining. Two Google reviews from May 2025 describe working directly with "Bill and his son John" on a deck build and house painting, which lines up with that story. Ten of the eleven reviews on file are five stars, dated from mid-2024 through mid-2025, praising punctuality, cleanup and competitive pricing on painting jobs and one deck build. The exception is a 2024 review describing a different problem entirely — the reviewer said the company never showed up for a scope-review meeting and then stopped answering texts, calls and messages, calling it a wasted morning. The Better Business Bureau lists an A+ grade, though the business isn't BBB-accredited and the page shows no complaint count of its own. Given the one no-show account, it's worth confirming directly that someone will actually show up for the initial estimate before setting aside the time. For painting, carpentry repairs or historic-restoration work around Peabody and Essex County, this looks like a long-running family shop with a mostly clean run of reviews — just nail down that first appointment.