Blessed Painting

Came quickly. Gave a good price. Only took slightly longer than expected. Really nice paint job. Worked with us on lots of little details. Nice guys.

The price was very good, much less than the two other quotes we received, but the work corresponded with the price. They did the absolute minimum prep: filled mail holes and coated cracks. They did not even wipe the dust off the surfaces before they painted, so the finish is not smooth but is filled with little bits of fuzz (and our woodwork was pretty clean to start, thank goodness!). They didn't clean the grease off the kitchen ceiling. They painted directly over old, peeling paint without scraping and sanding at all and we had to ask them to sand and redo one of the doors. They did not cover or move anything, and I asked them to hold off on some rooms (like the bedrooms, so I could scramble around and put everything under a dropcloth. After they left I discovered quite a bit of paint on one portion of our stair railing (wood finish), and I'm not sure how we will get it off, other than refinishing the whole railing. They were done very fast, on the positive side, and they did show up exactly when they said they would. If you want a cheap, fast job and don't need to live with the results, they would be good candidates.

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I was extremely disappointed with Blessed Painting. I had used the company in 2010 and Giovanni and his crew did a fabulous job. I decided to have my condo repainted in 2013 after renting it out for two years. I called Blessed Painting again since they were so wonderful before. Giovanni is no longer the owner of the company. I was told the painting crew was the same, so I booked the job. The results were disastrous. My newly refinished hardwood floors were covered with tiny paint drops. I called the company and received a text two days later...the morning my furniture was being delivered. It was too late to do anything about the floor. After we moved back into the condo I realized the painters really screwed up the job. The painting was extremely sub-par. My bathroom looked like it had been painted with a wet roller. There is a pattern all over the walls that looks horrible. The also missed spots in every room. Complete amateurs. I wish I hadn't paid them until I had done a better inspection of the condo.

Avoid this company at all costs, you will be left with a half finished job. If you're thinking about hiring Barreto and blessed painting, in a word, DON'T. You will be messed around for weeks, delayed and ultimately disappointed. Working with this guy is the height of frustration. But, lets be fair and present a balanced review; Let me start with the positives - Called Barreto on a Wednesday, he picked up and arranged to meet me that night, at 530pm. He arrived at my house at 5pm, early, a good start! - The bid that Barreto came in with was at the upper level of competing bids. We needed a new ceiling hung and plaster applied over the sheetrock. Although he was coming in on the high end, he could start that saturday, so we agreed on the price, shook hands and ill see you saturday @ 8am - The two guys that arrived at 8am were pleasant enough. They laid down their protective equipment (they used my plastic and painters tape though!) for the floor and off they went cutting and installing the ceiling. After a quick break, they started plastering the ceiling. They started at 8am and they were done by 130pm, it looked good. excellent! That's were the positives ended. Lets get to the negatives and the real reason you should look elsewhere, anywhere, for a painting contractor. After the ceiling was installed, I spoke to Barreto about painting the ceiling, the walls, prepping and painting all the trim work. He gave me a price, it was good, the lowest bid that we have received. I gladly accepted his offer and he said when the plaster is dry his guys could come back and finish the job. This was October 8th. what happened between 8th October and 3rd November was 20+ text messages, phone calls, emails to Barreto, the majority which were ignored. All i was asking was "when can you come back to finish" and i would receive a response "i'm busy, sorry" "we are busy, we will get back to you" "we are busy until January, you can get another company to finish it if you like". JANUARY!!! WTH????? no one is that busy. After much thought it became obvious that he had underbid on the cost estimate for the painting and didnt want to commit to it. The painting, with all the sanding and prep work, was a two day job, easily. He was willing to offer one day of work for the quote he had bid. This wasnt going to work, he didnt want to do the work because he had underbid on two guys working 16 hours on a job and wouldnt make any money, and i wasnt willing to let him rush the job, compressing two days of work into one day. It would have looked terrible, rushed and unprofessional. Overall, i think Barreto and blessed painting are kinda shady. At one point he asked me to "leave your door open, you dont need to be there when we are painting" who in their right mind would leave 2-3 virtual strangers in their home for 8 hours? no one, i dont care who you are and how trusting you are. So here we are the job half finished, the ceiling has imperfections that i will now have to pay someone else to deal with and will have to contract another company to actually come and finish the paint job. I simply wouldnt hire Barreto or recommend him to anyone. There are literally dozens of painting contractors in the Boston area, i went to Blessed painting and Barreto because of the 4 star reviews on YELP. However, if you look closely, you'll see that no one has reviewed his company in over a year and i can only assume people are having the same bad experiences with him. Look elsewhere, trust me.