Davy Painting

OVERALL, IT WAS A GOOD EXPERIENCE. THE GUYS DID A GOOD JOB AND WERE VERY CAREFUL WITH OUR STUFF AND PLANTS OUTSIDE. THEY WERE VERY NEAT AND CLEANED UP REALLY WELL AFTER THE WORK WAS DONE. THEY WERE POLITE AND ON TIME. MY ONLY CRITICAL COMMENT WOULD BE REGARDING SCHEDULING. I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO BE GIVEN A DATE OR A WINDOW OF A WEEK OR TWO TO GET THE JOB COMPLETED. IT TOOK A LONG TIME TO GET THE OUTSIDE DONE. THEIR PRICING WAS SIMILAR TO THE OTHER ESTIMATES WE GOT FROM OTHER PAINTING COMPANIES.

WE GOT 8 ESTIMATES FROM TOP ANGIE'S LIST COS, & DECIDED TO GO WITH DAVY, BECAUSE THEY SEEMED GOOD & SOLID, AND ESTIMATE WAS FAIR. TWO PEOPLE DID THE JOB, INCLUDING JIM, WHO DID THE ESTIMATE. PERHAPS DUE TO MISUNDERSTANDING, JIM SAID THE PRICE HAD TO BE A LITTLE HIGHER ONCE WE WERE STARTING THE JOB. HE SAID ''TRIM'' DOES NOT INCLUDE WINDOW PAINTING, WHICH SURPRISED US, BUT IS INTERESTING TO LEARN. THE PAINTERS ARE NICE GUYS; THEY WORK IN QUIET AND SEEM VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE. THE PAINTING LOOKS GOOD. MY ONLY ADVICE WOULD BE TO MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT TERMS OF AN ESTIMATE MEANS RE DETAILS. I ACTUALLY CALLED FOR CLARIFICATION & THOUGHT I GOT ALL THE ANSWERS FOR CLEAR COMPARISONS BETWEEN COMPANIES. IT WAS A HARD CHOICE TO MAKE BETWEEN A LOT OF SEEMINGLY GOOD COMPANIES, SO I HOPE, IN THE END, WE FEEL GOOD ABOUT OUR CHOICE, & THAT THE NICE LOOK FOR THE PAINT WORK LASTS! AS THIS JOB IS STILL IN PROCESS, I WILL CONTINUE POST AT END & AT THAT POINT ANSWER THE QUESTION OF WOULD WE HIRE AGAIN.

DECIDED NOT TO HAVE THE WORK PERFORMED THIS LATE IN SEASON, HOWEVER ROGER WAS RESPONSIVE AND VERY ATTENTIVE TO DETAIL. HE POINTED OUT ISSUES THAT OTHERS HAD MISSED AND HIS BID WAS THE MOST CLEAR AND COMPREHENSIVE OF ALL THE BIDS RECEIVED TO DATE. PRICING WAS ALSO VERY COMPETITIVE AND HE DEMONSTRATED GOOD FOLLOW-UP. I WOULD CONSIDER THEM ON A FUTURE BID.

THEY DID A GREAT JOB, WERE POLITE, AND ANSWERED ALL QUESTIONS.

IT TOOK JIM A SECOND REMINDER CALL TO GET AN ESTIMATE TO ME (I HAD CALLED HIM IN JANUARY OF LAST YEAR AT A SLOW TIME FOR EXTERIOR ESTIMATES). HE CAME OUT AFTER THAT PRETTY QUICKLY AND GAVE ME AN ESTIMATE THAT WAS WITHIN 200 BUCKS OF THE OTHER ONES I GOT. I JUST WENT WITH THE FELLOW WHO WAS FIRST TO GIVE ME THE ESTIMATE AND THE BEST PRICE. I AM SURE JIM WOULD HAVE DONE A DECENT JOB (PROBABLY BETTER THAN THE GUY I HIRED!).

ROGER BREWER WAS QUICK TO RESPOND TO MY INITIAL CALL, PROMPT WITH HIS APPT, AND SCHEDULED US AT A TIME CONVENIENT TO US. JOHN, AND SAM DID A GREAT JOB, WERE NEAT AND PICKED UP AFTERWARDS. JOSH ALSO CAME BACK AT A LATER DATE TO PAINT JUST OUR CHIMNEY STUCCO, AND DID AN EXCELLENT JOB FOR US. WOULD USE THEM AGAIN.

THEY PROVIDED REFERENCES AND WERE VERY PROFESSIONAL. HE ALSO PROVIDED HIS CERTIFICATE OF LIABILITY AND INSURANCE WHICH WAS OUTSTANDING! THEY CLEANED UP VERY WELL AFTERWARDS AND ALSO WASHED THE WINDOWS.

OUR EXPERIENCE WITH THIS COMPANY WAS UNFORTUNATELY DISAPPOINTING. THE DAY THEY WERE GOING TO POWERWASH THE HOUSE TO PREPARE IT FOR PAINTING, I ASKED WHETHER THERE WAS ANYTHING I COULD DO, MR. BREWER SAID NO, THAT THEY'D TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING. BUT WHEN I RETURNED HOME, I FOUND THAT THE PAINTERS HADN'T MOVED MY OUTSIDE POTTED PLANTS SO THEY WERE COVERED (AND ARE STILL COVERED) IN WHITE-WASH SPLATTER, INCLUDING A ROSEMARY BUSH USED FOR COOKING AND A BOUNGANVILLEA. MR. BREWER OFFERED TO PAY FOR ANY DAMAGE BUT THERE REALLY WASN'T ANYTHING THAT MONEY COULD REMEDY. ALTHOUGH MR. BREWER IS EXTREMELY PROFESSIONAL AND KNOWLEDGEABLE, HE DIDN'T COME TO OUR HOUSE TO SUPERVISE WHAT THE PAINTERS WERE DOING SO THE SUPERVISION FELL TO US. AT ONE POINT, WE HAD TO ASK THEM TO SAND THE BACK DOOR AFTER THEY'D PAINTED IT BECAUSE IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THEY'D DONE SO PRIOR TO PAINTING. ULTIMATELY, THE HOUSE LOOKS VERY GOOD BUT FOR $3700 I EXPECTED BETTER SERVICE.

JIM AND JOSH WERE VERY PROFESSIONAL, COURTEOUS, AND NEAT. THE ORIGINAL TIME FRAME FOR WORK TO BE DONE WAS NOVEMBER, BUT AT JIM'S SUGGESTION, THEY DID THE JOB ON CONSECUTIVE WEEKENDS AND GOT IT DONE ON OCTOBER 16TH.

DAVY PAINTING DID AN EXCELLENT JOB. WERE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT THE WORK THEY DID, KEPT OUR PROPERTY CLEAN. VERY COURTEOUS. WE WERE VERY PLEASED WITH THE WORK. THANK YOU, BRENT & AMY.

ALL WORK WAS PERFORMED NEATLY AND IN A TIMELY MANNER.

HE WAS EXCELLENT. HE TOLD ME TO MAKE SURE I ASKED FOR DIFFERENT THINGS. HE WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF MY QUOTES. THE OTHER GUY WAS JUST LOWER.

THEY DID A GREAT JOB. I HAVE NO COMPLAINTS. I WAS VERY PLEASED.

THIS COMPANY IS EXCELLENT. EVERY ASPECT OF THE JOB, FROM GATHERING INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT WE NEEDED, WORKING OUT THE BID AND DOING THE WORK WAS DONE WITH CARE AND PROFESSIONALISM THAT WENT WELL BEYOND NORMAL. THEY EVEN, WITHOUT BEING ASKED, REDID PART OF THE JOB BECAUSE THE INITIAL RESULT DID NOT MEET THEIR PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS. THEY DID NOT HAVE TO DO THIS AS THE ORIGINAL WORK MET THE CONDITIONS OF THE CONTRACT. THIS IS A VERY GOOD COMPANY TO WORK WITH.

ALTHOUGH DAVY PAINTING CAME HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY A FRIEND, I WAS UNDERWHELMED BY OUR INITIAL MEETING. I FIRST SPOKE WITH ROGER WHO SEEMED PERSONABLE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE OVER THE PHONE. HE TOLD ME THAT JIM WOULD COME TO DO THE ESTIMATE. I DID TELL THEM THAT SINCE I HAD LIMITED ACCESS TO THE NEW HOUSE, THERE WOULD BE OTHER CONTRACTORS THERE. JIM CAME TO DO THE ESTIMATE AND COULDN'T HANDLE THE EXCESS CONTRACTORS. IN FACT, HE TOLD ME JUST THAT, AND TOLD ME TO CALL HIM WHEN I COULD GIVE HIM MORE ATTENTION AND ANSWER QUESTIONS. HE ALSO SEEMED INFLEXIBLE WITH WHAT WE WANTED TO DO (IE: PAINT BRAND CHOICES, DIFFERENT COLORS IN EACH ROOM). THERE WAS ONE POINT WHERE I FELT UNCOMFORTABLE WITH HIM IN THE HOUSE, AND SO DID OTHER CONTRACTORS THAT WERE THERE. JIM CALLED A WEEK LATER TO FOLLOW-UP AND THEN GAVE ME A QUOTE FAR ABOVE THE OTHER CONTRACTORS. BECAUSE OF THIS I DID NOT GO WITH DAVY PAINTING. MAYBE IF ROGER HAD COME OUT, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT.

THE COMMUNICATION WAS GOOD AND THE PRICE WAS FAIR, BUT WE EXPERIENCED OVERSPRAY ON OUR WINDOWS. THIS REQUIRED REMOVAL BY SCRAPING WITH RAZOR BLADES, AND WAS NOT OUR EXPECTED OUTCOME.

ROGER BREWER IS A VERY NICE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE MAN. GAVE US HANDY INFORMATION TO EVALUATE NOT JUST HIS BID, BUT ALL THE BIDS WE GOT. THE CREW STARTED PAINTING WITHIN THE TIMEFRAME PREDICTED. DID A NICE JOB AND, ACCOUNTING FOR RAIN, FINISHED WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME FRAME.

OVERALL THE EXPERIENCE WAS VERY GOOD; WORKERS WERE PROMPT, CLEAN, AND FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS. ONE PROBLEM: TWO WEEKS AFTER THEY FINISHED, OUR CABLE TV AND COMPUTER CONNECTION SHUT DOWN. ALL EXTERNAL WIRING HAD TO BE REPLACED, BECAUSE PAINTERS HAD PAINTED THE WIRING, AND THE PAINT HAD SOAKED IN AND RUINED THE CONNECTIONS.

ROGER WAS GREAT AND EVEN GAVE US HIS HOME NUMBER AFTER WE COMMITTED TO WORKING WITH HIM. HIS TEAMS WERE VERY PROFESSIONAL. WE HAD THE SAME FOREMAN EVERY DAY, BUT THE REST OF THE TEAM CHANGED NEARLY EVERY DAY. NEVERTHELESS, THEY WERE ALL PROFESSIONAL AND CLEANED UP AT THE END OF EVERY DAY. THEY FINISHED MORE-OR-LESS ON TIME. SEAN, THE FOREMAN, WAS OUTSTANDING AND WENT BACK TO SPOTS ON THE HOUSE TIME AND TIME AGAIN UNTIL HE WAS SATISFIED. (I WAS SATISFIED LONG BEFORE HE WAS.) I'LL RECOMMEND THEM TO MY FRIENDS.

OUT OF 4 ESTIMATES THEY WERE THE MIDDLE PRICED AND IT WAS REASONABLE AND FAIR. THEY WERE COMPLETELY PROFESSIONAL, POLITE, AND CONSIDERATE. HE EXPLAINED WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND WHY. THE ESTIMATE MATCHED THE FINAL PAYMENT. THEY EVEN CLEANED UP EVERY EVENING SO THAT I WOULD BE ABLE TO MOVE THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE. THEY WERE VERY PROMPT, SAYING THAT THEY WOULD SHOW UP BETWEEN 8-8:30 AM AND SHOWED UP AT THE TIME EVERY MORNING. THEY USE QUALITY PRIMING AND PAINT. THE PAINTER CAME OVER THIS MORNING TO LOOK AT THE FRONT DOOR AFTER THE FINAL WALK THROUGH AND WASN'T SATISFIED WITH THE JOB (ALTHOUGH I DIDN'T NOTICE ANYTHING) AND HE REPAINTED.

WE DEALT WITHEM FOR EXTERIOR PAINTING, & WERE PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS. WE GAVE A SHORT LEAD TIME, BUT THEY WERE CHEAPER, MORE FLEXIBLE, MET OUR SCHEDULE NEEDS, & MADE A GREAT IMPRESSION

MR. BREWER CALLED BACK THE NEXT DAY. HE TOOK GREAT CARE TO EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT WOULD BE DONE. HIS ESTIMATE WAS 25% LOWER THAN THE OTHER TWO I RECEIVED, BUT I WOULD HAVE HIRED HIM ANYWAY ON THE STRENGTH OF HIS KNOWLEDGE, ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND ATTITUDE. THEY DID AN EXCELLENT JOB, CLEANED UP AFTER THEMSELVES AND EVEN OFFERED TO RETURN TO HANG SOME SHUTTERS I HAD ON ORDER. I HAVE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THEM TO OTHERS AND WILL USE THEM AGAIN.

JIM FROM DAVY PAINTING WAS OUR MAIN CONTACT. HE WAS VERY PROFESSIONAL, SHOWED UP WHEN HE SAID HE WOULD AND KEPT TO THE SCHEDULE HE ORIGINALLY STATED (WHICH INCLUDED STAYING LATE ON SEVERAL NIGHTS AND EVEN SHOWING UP FOR A FULL DAY'S WORK ON A HOLIDAY WEEKEND TO FINISH). HE AND HIS CREW SPENT A LOT OF TIME DOING PREP WORK AND THE OUTCOME SHOWS THE DETAIL AND TIME THEY SPENT. THIS IS THE 2ND TIME WE'VE HIRED JIM AND HIS CREW (THE FIRST WAS FOR EXTERIOR PAINTING). WE'VE BEEN SATISFIED BOTH TIMES.

VERY PROFESSIONAL AND FOLLOWED UP ON BID AND WORK. ASKED FOR BIDS FROM THE THREE TOP ANGIE'S LIST PAINTERS AND DAVY WAS THE LOWEST BID.

VERY PROFESSIONAL, NEAT, PUNCTUAL, AND HARD WORKING, THEY DID THE JOB VERY QUICKLY AND VERY WELL. I AM HAVING THEM RETURN TO PAINT OTHER ROOMS. THEY DID SUCH A GOOD JOB, THEY PAINTED MY SON'S HOME AS WELL.