JB Painting

Josue and his crew were prompt, clean, friendly and professional. They are excellent painters, and did a great job. Josue is the owner, and he walked through the house with us, discussing colors, paint types, etc. His bid was very reasonable, and when we added extras after the job started, his prices were again, very fair.

If you're seeing this because you came to this page for 5 star reviews, please read this one. Please. Please read it. Even if you still work with him. We effectively are one of the few large-scale up-to-date reviews and this guy really raked us over the coals for money in an unreal. I would also encourage you, as Faye P. said, to ask for his business license. They don't know colors. They don't act ethically. Josue is frankly rude and condescending. I preface this by writing that the job was eventually finished, and it was finished to a standard I'd give about a C-. Maybe. The professionalism, reliability, general conduct and utterly crass money-grabbing nature of Josue is something that deserves nothing but sheer disgust. I have never in my life ever had to contact my attorney involved with a contractor. Congrats Josue! Bet you weren't expecting that one! We hired Josue to paint the exterior of our house, the interior living room of our house and stain our fence and our deck. Josue sent us an email with a quote, and they began. It was $9850 for the whole time. Very quickly we saw that the paint they'd chosen for the green, which they pushed my wife to take versus go with her choice, was a sickly mint. I should note that they had already been painting the living room at this time as well. We very nicely asked Josue if we could change the colour and in return, Josue said two things: 1) That'll be $2800. 2) When she said it was ludicrous, he got flustered, said "well we have to make a decision in the next 20 minutes." It was 7:30am. I'd been working a long night. She pleaded - "can we have an hour?" To quote his reprehensible answer, he said "wife's name, the world doesn't revolve around you." He then immediately halted work on the interior painting. This is in no way reasonable, nor fair, nor related to the exterior painting, but he sure did it. I said $1500, he said $2000, and out of sheer exhaustion I excepted what I see as borderline extortion. He even had the gall to say, when I asked for a rundown of his expenses, "Well, you run a business, do YOUR clients ask for a run down of expenses?" I told him - yes, I do. He went quiet. I should add Josue's tone on the phone with my wife was immensely different to his tone to me in person. When he spoke on the phone - we had him on speaker - to my wife, he was condescending, rude, talked over her. In person he was quiet, and though he did try and talk over me, well, anyone who knows me well knows that doesn't tend to go well for anyone. The only reason we didn't kick him and his team out was because they were working. Still. And had half-finished the front room. Don't worry, we'll get there. Oh, and I should add Josue sure loved reminding us that he "lost money" on the front room. Well he sure made money on the outside of the house to me. So, here we are, $2000 more on top of the job, and they paint the house. They paint it. All of it. We take a look around and realize that they clearly didn't clean the property (please do check out our photos) - you know how we know that? Well, they painted over a spiderweb. And a spider. That's pretty obvious that they didn't clean it properly. Then the next day, it peeled - and they did a sloppy job painting over it, as you can see from our other photo. They eventually got those were cleaned and corrected, but the house was still not cleaned properly initially. Remember the interior job? Well, we have an number of stair rails. I've included a picture of the job they did when painting them. You'll see all of them are painted black, apart from one that's left right. We told this to Josue. His first defense was that the rail was not part of the room (as it was to the left of a walkway to the garage). By that logic, surely the left rail of that staircase would also be right? His response to this was - pretty grumpily - to say that it was in the contract. This is the equivalent of a gameshow buzzer for me, because there's one person I know who loves looking at contracts - my attorney! So I decided as Josue wanted to talk about contracts, my attorney would love to talk about contracts with him. Turns out the moment I did that over email Josue suddenly decided that in fact the stair rail - and don't worry I've included pictures - was in fact part of the room. Note, his cohort had agreed to paint them out of some sort of sympathy or possibly some other reason I'm not sure of. It's irrelevant. They did it. Then, finally, there's the fence. We canceled this part. And the deck. Why? Because we asked for semi-transparent. The stain (see the photo!) came out looking like...well, paint. You tell me if that looks transparent. It doesn't. We argued with them, they yelled to check the paint can, and we pointed to the many, many pieces of spare wood (we're having work done) they could have tested it on. If you want an expensive job done in a painful and mediocre manner, you know who to call.

They were punctual, clean and they have a very competitive price. They finished on time. There followup was excellent. The quality of the work was really good.