Pikes Peak Painting

Cory Smith arrived on the agreed day and re-sanded and stained the areas with which we were dissatisfied. He even ingeniously fashioned a plug from a dowel to repair the aforementioned step. He worked diligently and quickly and was a pleasure to have as a contractor.

I was aghast to learn subsequently that Cory Smith's business is actually a religiously-based training program ("Training Ground") to mentor teens and young men in independent living skills. I would like to have known this in advance so that I had the choice of contracting with such a program. When Cory arrived on 6/4/12 with two teen workers, he left them alone for the entire day. I watched through a window and noted that only one teen was working, while the other watched. I also noted that they crossed the parking area where we were trying to restore grass and comported themselves as typical teens, taking frequent smoking breaks. As the mother of four sons, I am very, very familiar with this stage of behavior and general abilities. My 32 years as a Social Worker have also added to my knowledge base. One of the teens broke a camping lamp in the gazebo, and he was responsible enough to let me know, offering replacerment (which he did at a much later date). I e-mailed my concerns to Cory about what my expectations were with regard to the job and my disappointment with having a crew of teens. Cory had mistakenly told the teens to power wash a section of the large deck which I did not include. He agreed to stain this area but it does not look as if it has been protected. Because of the varying crews of teens, the work reflects their differing styles and abilities and portions of the areas do not look if they have been treated at all. Only the gazebo--which was done in one day by the same teens--looks acceptable. The hail storm was on 6/6/12 and this caused a delay, of course, in completing the deck. The final work is very, very unsatisfactory; and Cory sent his lead worker to remedy this. The young man brought the replacement camping lamp (that he'd broken) and examined the small deck; however, he has not returned to complete the work. There has been no further communication with Cory (to whom I also donated a check for his "ministry" simply because the concept (if true) is admirable)--even though I would not have contracted with a training program. I don't have that kind of money.

July 24, 2012 Update:Cory Smith arrived on the agreed day and re-sanded and stained the areas with which we were dissatisfied. He even ingeniously fashioned a plug from a dowel to repair the aforementioned step. He worked diligently and quickly and was a pleasure to have as a contractor.

Over all, the job was good. He charged us no money up front and the price was fair for the job done. Lead in the old paint so no sand blasting could be done. Painting the house in 2 colors. Trim was done well. Not as much scraping of old paint as I would have liked but there is now paint on the house, which was what we needed. Clean up was not great as we found old paint buckets in the front yard. These may not have been from Cory as we had some other interior painting done by some other people. I had thought all of the chipped off paint had to be contained due to the lead, but we did find lots of paint chips on the ground. Also still had masking tape on door knobs an outside yard lamp. Please note that this entire job was done over the phone as I live in another state. Cory did all of this without us being there to supervise. I was impressed with that. Adequate job for what he had to start with. Would recommend him!

The owner of this company and the workers are very friendly. If you ask them to do something they smile and agree and take care of it. They are very responsive. I will use this company in the future.

Excellent service

They are still in contact with me because the work based on the weather conditions. Whenever the weather did not allow for work to be done they stayed in contact and kept me updated on what the status was. When they came out they put in some over time because they felt that it was taking too long. I really appreciate that they also offer military discount.