Brannick and Associates Painting Services

Very happy with result. Even satisfied my wife which is saying volumes (one detail-oriented woman, she). Work was timely. Daily cleanups were thorough. All doors and windows still opened readily when complete. Crew was friendly and efficient and the foreman, Jose, was very responsive to issues. Patrick, the owner, visited daily during our job and was totally on top of things. We'll be using him again some day. Also, a very nice and unheard of service...at the end of the job, Patrick provided an email that included all the paint ordering numbers and sheen for future touch up. Of course he left the extra paint, but you know how that's always too funky when you finally need it, so this was a nice little addition to the work.

We were extremely impressed with all aspects of Patrick and his teams' work. Patrick was extremely organized, responsive, and timely. They always showed up on time, and they did such a good job of cleaning up every day that it really minimized disruption. We have two small kids and they really contained the dust well. Their work looks great, and they followed up quickly with the short punch list we had. Although we just painted the windows, Patrick advised us to be forward thinking about future paint for the body of the house when selecting colors, providing us with brush outs to help us choose and helping us search through our basement for the inside trim paint so that we could match paint exactly.

Five months after the work, the house still looks good, although the paint on the ironwork has gaps and developing rust spots. At the estimate phase, Patrick (and our competing bids) identified some dryrot and said they may find a bit more as they started prepping. Patrick's crew did identify more damage and promised to get an assessment, but the crew kept painting over that whole section of the house before waiting for the carpentry assessment. The carpenters found a large amount of rot and water damage, and ended up ripping off half of the back of our house and replacing all of the siding on an addition that had been built poorly. This meant the paint crew had to reprep and repaint the repaired siding. Old houses are full of surprises and miscommunication happens, but because Patrick and the crew chief did not communicate well on this with each other nor with us, we ended up paying for extra hours and materials for repainting the repaired area. IMHO, they should not have painted over the questionable areas so quickly. This situation cost us nearly an additional $1000 (Patrick says he absorbed a part of the labor). Separate from that, we continued to find paint chips around the yard, despite paying the required premium for lead abatement measures, for several months. Our laundry sink, yard and deck also suffered many paint splatters that were left without cleanup.

Patrick called me back and set an appt to come out on a Saturday at 230pm. I asked him if I should call the day before or day of to confirm since the appt was more than a week out, he assured me I was on the calendar and he would call if there were any changes. When he didn't arrive by 245, I called and left him a message. It's now Monday and I still haven't heard back about the missed appt. No call, no show = no professionalism!

When I first contacted Patrick, I told him I had (2) main concerns. One was feathering out the wood edges on the previously painted windows and doors - make them look like new. My other concern was the very expensive, newly-installed windows. When his crew first started, they put plastic over all the windows, brought some of the previously painted wood surfaces down to bare wood, or evened-out the other un-even painted surfaces. Along with this sanding and scraping, they did all necessary filliing of holes and cracks, etc. They put on 1 coat of primer and 2 coats of finish paint. The house looks re-born. I am very happy with the job they did. Bruce, El Cerrito, CA

The crew were punctual, worked quickly, and cleaned up each day. Patrick was easy to get a hold of and very responsive. We are very happy with the work, and wouldn't hesitate to use Brannick & Associates in the future.

Did well with exterior painting, very poor interior finish work. Fast workers but not meticulous with details and horrible finish work. Contractor very quick to demand payment at each stage of work but did not do walk through after completion of work to assure finish work done cleanly and completely. Made promises to correct sloppy work but did not perform. BEWARE! If you hire this group be sure you provide your own contract that waives his right to any lien and pay only when work is done satisfactorily.

our building management wasn't getting the job done (after a year of nagging them) so we got Patrick and one of his workers to come do the job. They squeezed this small job into their schedule on short notice. They coordinated with the building superintendent (who we needed to unlock the roof), showed up on time (both to inspect the problem and do the repair), and did a great job.

Here's the deal, if you are looking for a painting crew, stop and just hire these guys, it will save you a lot of hassle. We got three bids, Patrick's was the lowest by a nudge. However, I can't imagine anyone could match his service. He was prompt, finished within the proposed time frame. Cared about the outcome of the project. Helped us make a slow tedious decision about colors that in the end looks fantastic. He was kind to my pregnant wife and very informative about what the best days for us to stay away for safety reasons. When we disagreed with his approach on the front door he tried multiple versions of our ideas until we realized his original idea was the best. Never charged us for our indecision. Lastly, we're doing some construction that is putting some dents in his paint job, he promised to come back (free of charge) to touch up the project when they're gone. He contacted me to check to see if it was time yet. Since we've bought the house we've dealt with many contractors and services and none has stood out as much as Patrick and his paint crew. Honestly, save yourself some time and energy and get on his calendar.

Patrick Brannick responded to my request for an estimate immediately and was at my home right at the appointed time. When I decided to accept his proposal, the contract was written up and given to me within a few days. Mr. Brannick was very helpful with picking the right shades of color that I picked out. The crew came in and finished the work in one day. They worked well as a team. They moved furniture. The painting was very professionally done. At the end of the day all furniture was put back in place and the rooms were left neat and clean. I would have them do work for me again.

Ok but we did not communicate as well as with other contractors.

Patrick was one of 4 painters i had give me estimates. His was in the middle of estimates but seemed very knowledgeable on the large crack in my ceiling, so i choose him. He bought over samples of several colors i liked so i could see them in my house. After i picked my colors his crew was here the next day. I'm disabled, and his crew had no issue with helping move pictures of my wall and getting things out of the way. Every day they cleaned up after themselves and had all the work down in a few days. They were even nice enough to come late one morning since i was going to a concert the night before and wanted to sleep in. After they were finished they put everything back in it's place. A great job all around.

Patrick and his crew were A+ from the beginning. Patrick's communication with me both through our paint color selection and the entire painting job was excellent. Patrick's workers were polite and respectful of the pets that we had inside the house. In the end, the house looks really great. We are very happy with the entire experience.

Brannick and Associates Painting Services has been here everyday to check on the details. They were right on it and they were excellent. They were very thorough and meticulous.

WOW!!!! Patrick is a Rock Star. He took such good care of us and our house, I felt like we were part of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"!!!!! From the minute Patrick Brannick came out to give us a quote on having our house painted he was focused on us, our home and what we needed. Our house was built in 1921 and looked considerably worn out. Patrick probably spent an hour with us during the estimate giving us great ideas on how we could make our house look fresh and new. He was our third estimate. All of the other estimators just walked through the house and asked a couple of questions. Patrick walked in and it was "Wow, what a great fireplace....it could be the focal point of this room!" It had been painted white years ago and was very dirty. He thought of using a beautiful rich color on it......we took him up on his idea and now the fireplace IS the beautiful focal point of the living room. In the kitchen, the cupboards had been redone and the doors did not match the cabinets. They looked tacky but I did not think you could paint the cabinets. He saw the problem right away, said he could paint anything........and he did!!! He also recommended getting new cabinet hardware. Now it looks like we got new cabinets. In every room he was focused on how to make the most of what we had. The hour he spent going thru our house, giving us ideas, totally inspired us.....and impressed us. At the end, I said I was sorry to take so much of his time. He very sincerely said that it was no problem, he enjoyed it and if we did not use him at least we got some good ideas!!! Well, of course we decided to have him do our painting!!!!! Once we agreed to have Brannick and Associates do the painting, Patrick was available pretty much 24/7. If we texted, emailed or called, he always got right back to us. He was super available for color consultation prior to the painting. He is super knowledgable about color and I wish I would have taken more of his recommendations!! I am VERY indecisive but he was very patient. He would brush out color samples I had chosen and bring them over to put up to see if we could live with the colors. When the job started, Patrick told us not to worry about anything. His crews would move furniture, protect the floors, clean up, etc. AND THAT IS WHY I SAID WE FELT LIKE PART OF THE LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS!! Patrick and his crews did everything top notch, taking care of every detail. Our ceilings were in bad shape and took much more time to repair than Patrick had thought. So, he brought in an extra crew for a few days to keep the job on schedule. And then, after the kitchen was painted, I decided I could not live with the color (even though I had picked it). I felt horrible because the guys had worked so hard to make it perfect. But Patrick said "don't worry, we just want you to be happy"!! And they repainted the entire kitchen, including the ceiling!! They said the entire job would take 8 days, and it did. Because he brought in extra crews, etc. to make sure. The paint crews were absolutely outstanding. We have a ton of moulding and every line is perfect. We have a lot of multi-paned windows and every one is perfectly painted. When they finished a room, one guy would then spend many hours just cleaning with a keen eye to every detail (thanks Jorge)!!!!! I still am finding things I am amazed they did. I cannot recommend Brannick and Associates highly enough. I am telling you, if you are reading this review ONLY HIRE BRANNICK AND ASSOCIATES and no one else!!!!! Not only did Patrick and his crews do a stellar job, they did more than they quoted and Patrick said if I see anything, just make a list and call him. He will take care of everything. I said that if I found something I could do the touch up. He said "I don't want you touching a paintbrush. We will take care of it for you". Seriously, I felt like I was getting the type of service that only the rich get......and I LOVED IT!!! They truly did take care of us and our house. Thank you so much Patrick and each of the kind, dedicated crew. I cannot thank you enough!! I did a lot of research on Angie's list before choosing painting companies for estimates. We needed the interior and exterior of our house painted and we had a certain budget. After meeting Patrick and hearing his vision for our home interior we knew we had to have him. But we could not afford his level of painting on the exterior also. So we picked another company for the exterior that was $2000 less. BIGGEST MISTAKE WE COULD HAVE MADE. They were a nightmare. It looked like the 12 year old across the street had done the exterior painting. They are on Angie's List and did come back and fix most things but it was a long ordeal. In the scheme of life $2000 is nothing and now our exterior will probably have to be painted sooner so we will have lost the savings. SAVE YOURSELF GRIEF AND ONLY HIRE BRANNICK AND ASSOCIATES FOR ALL OF YOUR PAINTING!!!

Excellent. Highly recommend. Very professional. Plan to use again soon. Patrick is excellent.

Patrick Brannick of Brannick and Associates Painting Services did an excellent job. They actually did more than they specified on the original quote. They saw some stuff that needed doing, and they did it! They did a wonderful job of painting the house. They cleaned up exceptionally well - there was nothing left for me to do. They were always on time, they were great. I would use them again, and I'm going to recommend them to my son and daughter-in-law because they are talking about getting their house done. The work looks wonderful. He left me all the leftover paint and colors with a detailed list of what colors went where. He told me what to do to maintain the niceness of the paint so it would last longer. Overall, they were great and I don't have a thing to complain about. He was saying after we've been gone a little while, you keep going round the house and looking it over, if you see anything you don't like or anything you think we should touch up or do, just give me a call and I'll send a guy out and he'll do it for you. You couldn't ask for more than that. He truly looks after his customers, and he does love Angie's List. The price was good and fair. The responsiveness was good: I talked to him three or four weeks before the start of the job and he said We'll be there by the end of March and it will take about 4 1/2, 5 days to do. That's what it took. He called me every once in a while to let me know it was all still on schedule. They worked the whole time and didn't goof off.

It went weirdly. Pro: the crew were excellent. They didn't always arrive at the scheduled time, or in the same number as Mr. Brannick said they would, but their work was exemplary. The mud-and-finish work required for ceiling-wall joins after molding removal is invisible. No runs, no sloppy brushwork, no drips on anything not intended to receive paint, no problems. They were polite, cheerfully answered questions, and did a number of things painting crews are not famous for. For example, they removed artwork and picture hangers, somehow noted where the hangers had been, carefully stored the hangers, and for the most part, returned the hangers to their original sites and rehung the artwork when they were finished. They rolled up small area rugs and stored them elsewhere. They moved any furniture that could not be removed to the center of the room and covered it in plastic, and when the work was done, they put it all back in place. They were quick. They took advantage of site-specific opportunities that allowed them to work quickly, such as [with our consent] storing paint and supplies on small decks between rooms where they were working, which saved considerable time on moving such things from storage to the work site. Con: Mr. Brannick is a quick and decisive man, which is not bad in itself, but led to problems. We signed the contract before paint colors had been chosen. We went online and picked candidate colors, which Mr. Brannick then painted onto large cards and brought to the house so we could see them in the rooms they were chosen for, which was necessary, because in two rooms, the paint had to complement artwork we already had. Mr. Brannick also advised us, for example, to use the same trim and ceiling color throughout for consistency's sake and to avoid having multiple stored trim paint for repairs. So far so good. During the site visit, Mr. Brannick wrote the planned site on the backs of the color cards. Fred sketched the rooms as we went through and recorded the colors on the sketch. At no point did either Fred and I or Mr. Brannick list the rooms and the chosen colors. Big mistake. The first day of actual painting, as opposed to prep, the painters painted the master bedroom blue and the guest bedroom next door, green. I called Mr. Brannick, because I thought the colors were reversed. The notes Fred had made had been lost in clearing the rooms, and Mr. Brannick's card for the master bedroom said we had chosen the blue paint for that room. We actually ended up conferring with two artists, who both agreed blue was inappropriate for the artwork in that room. Mr. Brannick insisted the colors on the walls were correct. We insisted he repaint them. The whole point of this long-winded discussion is that Mr. Brannick actually had written Master Bedroom on the back of the blue-colored card, which was just plain wrong. Side Note: all this foo-rah would have been avoided had Mr. Brannick [or we, but we're not professional painters and were not providing service] listed room and paint colors for confirmation. And the closets. Both guest bedrooms had nearly-empty closets, which were not included in the original bid nor painted along with the rooms. Mr. Brannick's reason was that almost nobody wants closets printed because they don't want to move the clothes out. IMHO, given that the closets were not packed full of clothes and we are not almost everybody anyway, he should have asked if we wanted them painted. Quibble? Yes, if it were the only issue. Finally, on more than one occassion, Mr. Brannick stated that there would be, for example, five painters on a given day and only three showed up, which slowed completion of the project appreciably. So, Brannick and Associates can do a wonderful job, but you have to confirm everything agreed upon, don't assume anything, watch what's happening closely, tell Mr. Brannick immediately if you are concerned about anything, and hold your ground.

*UPDATE* I came here to update the review because Mr. Brannick called me today to apologize - and explain his mother had surgery etc which is why he couldnt come in etc. He also claimed responsibility for his actions.However - his response to my review is totally different! Mr. Brannick - I did NOT ask you to pick up my phone while driving, nor did i expect you to come here the same day. You did inform me you were leaving on a holiday the next day AFTERNOON - and YOU told me you would call back and confirm an appointment for the morning before u left on vacation. Hence i will NOT give them a better rating. Good Lord Indeed! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I called them yesterday about an interior paint job. I was assured someone would come over before afternoon the next day for an estimate - the guy told me he was driving and would call me in the evening to schedule the apt. No returned phone call - No one came to give me a bid. too bad - the guy sounded nice on the phone. Wish they were more professional

We contacted this company for an upcoming paint job, but they never returned our phone call.

I'd had multiple estimates for the job. To be honest, Patrick was not the cheapest, but he impressed me the most with a comprehensive plan that took into account the aesthetics of the job. As these reviews show, Patrick and his guys are good. This also means, they are very busy. In spite of this, Patrick was always very responsive when I had a question or issue. Also, he does not just walk away when the job is done. Due to some inclement weather issues when the paint was applied, it was necessary for them to come back out and re-do a signficant amount of caulking. This was performed quickly and effectively and without additional charge. I would definitely recommend his services and would hire him again.

I was very dissapointed with the overall experience. I had originally purchased a coupon but had additional rooms that needed to be painted. Initially, the encounter started off well with a telephone conversation and then a visit to our house for an estimate. At that consultation, without being provoked or asked by me, Patrick stated I could purchase multiple coupons for the job. I thought great, I may do that but as with any estimate, I like to see all the information prior to making any further purchases. There were issues sending me an estimate through email that took almost a week. When I asked him to send an email attachment rather than a link, he sent me an "estimate" on the email that stated I should purchase two more coupons with no actual numbers. After requesting to see actual numbers, finally I received a actual estimate. Although I had some reservations, because of the great reviews that the company had and I had the coupon, I decided to go ahead and continue to work with Patrick. I made another appt with him for color consultation and at that visit, he did not show up. I called him a half hour later and he said he got his dates mixed up although we only made the appt a couple of days prior. He did end up coming and at that time I asked him about the coupons. He said rather than having me pay two parties by purchasing the coupons through Angie's List and then paying the rest to him, he would instead give a 25% discount off the estimate. Even though the Angie's list discount was over 30%, it sounded reasonable to avoid paying two parties and I agreed. After that appointment, we waited for paint samples that he promised to have for us the following day or so and it wasn't until several days later after I asked about them that it was done. During this period, I had requested a revised estimate since we changed the number of rooms we wanted painted and to see the discount in writing. When I reviewed the latest estimate, there was no discount given, just a revision for the number of rooms but he wrote it as a 20% decrease (I am unsure if he was trying to make it seem like a discount!). I emailed him multiple times asking about the discount that he had offered, and Patrick basically did not acknowledge any of our previous conversations. Instead, he decided to say that according to Angie's List, there's a limit of one coupon per job, and he was doing me a favor by giving me an additional $100 off the estimate. As I mentioned earlier, on our first meeting, I was not the one requesting to use multiple coupons, he was the one who said I could do that to save money. And then he also decided to "price out" what it had cost him to come to our house for the consultations and paint samples and has the gall to say that I demanded the discount. After receiving this last email from him, I felt like he tried to mislead me with the coupons and discounts in order to obtain more business. Had he dealt honestly with me from the beginning, I likely would have utilized his services and paid him his full estimate. Instead, at this time, I would prefer not to use him at all, not even with the coupon and have found someone else who spoke honestly with me, explained everything and more, and ended up being much more reasonable with pricing.

Patrick was very clear and straightforward in communication. He made helpful suggestions about style and color scheme, while being sensitive to our tastes and wishes. His crew did excellent work and were very considerate of us. Our neighbors were impressed with their professionalism. The job was finished in a very timely manner, and the site was well cleaned up. We are very pleased with the results.

From start to finish Patrick Brannick was a pleasure to work with. Super responsive and easy to schedule a site visit, quick to return an estimate and extremely fast in scheduling and completing the work. We had decided to sell our condo and needed the exterior touched-up and painted as fast as possible. Patrick understood our goals, was knowledgable about all the various finishes, lead contamination issues and documentation (our home was built in 1923), and was most accommodating in meeting our tight time line. After his initial estimate was agreed upon and they began work, I kept finding little areas that I wanted to have painted (but had neglected to mention during the walk-through). Patrick and his team took care of all my last minute additions quickly and without hassle. Our home looks great, I couldn't be more pleased. All members of Patrick's work crew were friendly, professional, helpful and well-skilled. Clean-up was perfect, no damage to the landscaping (despite plantings at all over the place), and work was completed on time. These guys are top notch and their pricing is extremely fair and reasonable. When we need to hire painters again, I'm calling Patrick immediately. Thank you again!!

Very nice job & clean. Some areas were very difficult to paint because of the roof design, but they got it done nevertheless very well.