Nobody picks a painter off a website.

“Joe painted my parents’ house in the nineties. Tony did ours last spring. Same care, thirty years apart.”

“Started at 7:30 every morning, and you’d never know they’d been in the house. Furniture back where it was, floors cleaner than when they got here.”

“They found rot under the sill and told me before they painted over it. Could have just painted over it. That’s the whole story right there.”

“We had three quotes. Tony’s wasn’t the cheapest. He was the only one who went upstairs and actually looked at the water stain before pricing it.”

“Nineteen years in this house and I have never seen the trim look like that.”

“Called on a Tuesday, crew was here the following Monday. Second time we have had them and I would not bother phoning anyone else.”

“My wife is particular. Extremely particular. She has not found one thing.”

“Quiet, tidy, and gone by four. Two weeks and I never once had to chase anybody about anything.”

“The cabinets look like they came out of a factory. I had been quoted for a whole new kitchen and did not need one.”

“Four layers of wallpaper in the stairwell. They never once complained about it, and the walls underneath are flat as glass.”

“It rained most of the week they were meant to start outside. Tony called me every one of those mornings to say so. Nobody does that.”

“The number on the quote was the number on the invoice. After the last contractor we had, that felt remarkable.”

“A year later I found a chip by the back door. He came by on a Saturday with a tin and would not take anything for it.”

“I went with the cheap guy two years ago and paid to have it done twice. Should have called Marchetti the first time.”