Called Matthew to schedule an estimate. He was able to come over next morning, friendly, and on time. We received verbal bid that day and written a couple days later by email. We had to push job back by a week but Matthew stated it was no problem. He started the job on a Thursday and said he would be done on Friday afternoon. We went by on Friday morning and Matthew stated that he had someone on his way over to help him finish. We went back by house a few days later to walk through and about half of the job was complete. All the painting was done, however things were not right in areas. Paint on edge of hardwood floors, holes not filled, brush strokes in paint on windowsill, peeling paint not fixed, old paint showing through, stairwell not painted, handrail very rough to touch. Called and left message for Matthew to contact me about finishing job, as he was out of town. He called the following week as soon as he was in town and came by to walk through house. He apologized and said he left worker behind to finish and worker did not finish job correctly. Matthew stayed and worked on areas that needed attention. We were back at the house for another walk through later that week and it was better however still not completely done. The brush stokes in picture window had not been fixed, a door had been closed with wet paint on it chipping the door and making marks in paint, paint not cleaned off floor edges, and stairwell was touched up however you could see all the lines from old paint and new paint. Called Matthew again and asked him to come over and look at house again. He arrived at the house that afternoon and started cleaning paint off the floor, and finishing rest of job. Project was completed after third time of having him come out to house.
Description of Work: Painted interior of house.
Rating Category
Rating out of 5
quality
2.0
value
4.0
professionalism
4.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0
$900
Response from A Better Painting Solution
It is a shame I am just now seeing this reveiw 4 years later. She is right about the fact i had to come back to the house a few times. What she is isnt telling you is each time i came back over it was for uncontracted change orders. She used the fact that the paint ran off the walls to get 2 days of free labor when in fact there was no insultion and no heat which i had ask about at the time because it was very cold outside. When she told me there was heat and all i had to due was set the thermostat i thought no problem. What she didnt say was there was a timer on the theromastat to turn the heat off at midnight with lows in 20's-30's that night. As far as the window sash having brush storkes well that kind of happens when you brush paint on to a wood surface like that. She opted out of having the windows spryed last minute to save some money. The hand rail was sanded and painted three times for free and she still wasn't happy with it and the bathroom walls had silicone caulking poorly applied on the tub surround. If you are not fimiliar with with silicone caulking no paint on the market will stick to the caulking. Then she blamed me for using a product in her house that i dont use any where ever. Later she amitted that she applied the non-paintable caulk and that was her mistake not mine. Over all any person that use's a simple mistake on her end of things to get free work isnt some one i would ever want to work for again.
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