Maier's Painting & Maintenance

Very poor workmanship. Left trash and beer cans in yard.

Work was rushed. Claimed his crew (2 men) applied 3 coats of stain, but this is a good size house and the actual staining was completed within a day and a half; doesn't seem likely that is enough time for 3 coats. Demanded full payment before I could inspect closely the work. When called back, he said he would make the following repairs and touchups: 1) Touch up stain between electric and water meters, and top frame of sliding doors; 2) Pick up nails all over yard (from replacing boards) 3) Replace corner/edge roofing tiles on area near chimney 4) Replace roofing tiles he confessed to breaking over front door; 5) Remove drips of trim color on siding. He did none of the above except putting edge roofing tiles (#3) in place, but then did not secure them so they are in danger of falling off at any time; (I have photo of them). He also denied that any of the empty paint buckets and trays in the side yard were his. He said he would not re-do one long vertical trim board that had been cut too short and was inches shy of the top of the wall. During the time that the workers were there, they created a large pile of trash in the back yard from lumber scraps, their lunch boxes, bags and cups, aluminum soda and beer cans. (Also have a photo of this) Mr. Maier denied that his workers left trash, and denied that any of the beer cans were theirs. The food refuse attracted raccoons and rats at night. Back deck was not properly prepared and stain started bubbling and peeling almost immediately. He wanted me to buy more stain so he could apply another coat. I did not - I thought that was his problem, not mine. He told me that Cabot was the brand of stain he used and I contacted the company. They sent a questionnaire to start investigating the problem. This needed to be filled out by Mr. Maier but he refused.

Paint is peeling badly on the decorative wood trim of our 1890 house. Although the peeling became apparent shortly after the 2-year "workmanship warranty," the owner of Maier's Painting & Maintenance visited, and agreed to correct the problem. Many phone calls later, no work has been done, and the paint has peeled to such a degree that I'm concerned about weather damage to exposed wood. In hopes of moving things forward, I purchased the highest quality SW exterior paint and primer--it's here, ready to use. I do hope that Maier's Painting and Maintenance will scrape, and re-paint the problem areas before winter weather presents further problems. As is stands, I do not recommend Maier's Painting and Maintenance.

They did a fairly good job and the only thing that I was unhappy with was the paint quality. The guys did a great job; they caulked and did everything, they didn?t take too long, and they had to really go over barriers like bushes and stuff. They really did a good job but they didn?t use quality paint. That?s the only thing that I have to say bad about them. I think that I paid for more expensive paint than I got although I have no way of knowing that. They cleaned up after themselves and they did a good job on all the levels. I would use them again but only after doing some research and talking things over with them.