WC Painting Inc

Three sources agree on where WC Painting Inc is and what it does, and on almost nothing else. Walter Chickering runs it out of 141 S Flagg St in Worcester, with eight employees on the BBB's count, doing interior and exterior house painting plus kitchen cabinet refinishing. Where they part ways is age. The company's own site says it has served Worcester County and Metro West since 1998 as a locally owned, family-operated business — about 28 years. Its Porch blurb says 20. The BBB profile puts it at 8 years in business, listing a start date of 5/2/2018 against an incorporation date of 8/24/1998. All three cannot be right, and the gap is worth asking about directly. The reputation side is high but bare. Porch shows a 5.0 average drawn from 27 aggregated online ratings and publishes none of the underlying text, so there are numbers without anyone's account of the work behind them. The BBB grades the company A+, though it is not BBB-accredited, and its profile shows no complaints and no government actions. Clean, but not deep. Stated coverage runs to ten towns around Worcester: Holden, Rutland, Millbury, Shrewsbury, Paxton, West Boylston, Northborough, Sutton and Grafton alongside the city itself. The BBB page also lists an HIC contractor license type for the business, with no number attached — that is the directory's own listing rather than a registry confirmation. A reasonable call for a straightforward Worcester-area repaint or a cabinet refinish, with the caveat that you would be hiring on ratings rather than on anything a past customer wrote. Before booking, pin down how long they have actually been painting, ask for the home improvement contractor registration number and check it against the state registry yourself, and get the scope and schedule in writing.