Painters who pick up the phone.

Built around trades, not a single crew

Most small painting companies send the same few people to every kind of job. We split the work by trade because spraying a kitchen's worth of cabinet doors, prepping a sun-cooked west wall at 6,000 feet and repainting an office overnight have very little in common. Each crew does its own kind of work all week long.

Four habits we hold ourselves to

• The prep is the job. Color is the easy part. Whether a coat lasts three years or eight is settled before the first finish coat is opened.
• Bad news goes first. Rotten trim or failing siding shows up on the estimate, before you have paid for paint that would not have lasted.
• Everything on paper. Each surface, its preparation, the product line and sheen, coats, schedule, payment terms and the warranty.
• One phone number. The one you called to book is the one you call two years later.

People first, then profits

We put it in that order on purpose. When margin comes first, the wash gets skipped, the paint gets stretched and the estimate says "prep as needed." The house looks fine for a couple of seasons, and then the company stops getting referrals. We would rather earn the next call and your neighbor's.

When something goes wrong

On a long enough timeline every painter has a bad day: a board that was worse behind the paint than it looked, a color that reads differently on the wall, a storm that wipes out a week. We cannot promise those never happen. We can promise you will reach us, and that we will fix what is ours without an argument.