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The #1 Painting Contractor in Annapolis, Baltimore and the District of Columbia. Over 30 years of top quality service! Annapolis Painting Services has over 75 skilled craftsmen so that we can meet the demands for the residents in the Annapolis, Baltimore and the Washington DC Metro regions. We feature the kind of professional and technical dexterity to go from one specific project to another that may be quite different, which simply indicates we have all of the seasoned experience and training you can want from a painting company. Our clients love us because we proficiently handle all painting requests, both internal and external, for a myriad of properties. No job is too large or small, and they include residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, real estate projects and more. It is all about making your property look its best, which is why we handle related tasks such as: Interior & Exterior painting, Drywall repair & installation Roofing repair & installation, Siding repair & installation, Pressure washing... Plus many more services. Choose the BEST.. Choose APS!
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Services we offer
Exterior, interior, house, roof and cabinet painting, drywall and plaster repair & duraplex, minor repairs, carpentry, plaster, siding (including James Hardie), waterproofing, power washing, drywall repair, gutter cleaning, cabinet refinishing & deck restoration.
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Eco Friendly Accreditations
Yes
Emergency Services
Yes
Free Estimates
Yes
Warranties
Yes
Senior Discount
5%
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I cannot believe that all of the write-ups on this business are good. My experience was not pleasant and the painting quality was terrible.
The sales person for the company, “P”, came to my house and we discussed, in detail, exactly what I wanted done. He wrote up a proposal and quoted a price. When I reviewed the proposal, I called, and had some of the detail of what was to be done added. Work was supposed to take 3 days to complete drywall patching, nail hole fixes and painting.
Day 1 – Two painters showed up – “J” and “Earring”. I had been told that if I had leftover paint cans with the colors of the walls and trim I wanted painted, I could give them to the painters and they would take them to the paint store and match the colors for the paint they were going to use. Day one was finished at 3 o’clock. When I looked around after they left I noticed problems. The living room window blind was tangled up in the cord on one side and I noticed the wall paint was on one side of the frame for the white/wooden Venetian blinds. The edging between the walls and the ceiling was wavy and not a straight edge. Where the living room wall met the stairwell wall there was mocha paint on the stairwell wall which was a fern green, and there was fern green paint brush swipes on the mocha living room wall. There was mocha paint on the white baseboard trim in the living room, which was not supposed to be getting painted. By the time I got upstairs to the bathroom I was overwhelmed. I couldn’t get in the bathroom. The painters had stored all of their things in there – ladders in the bathtub, paint cans, rollers, brushes, drop cloths. The wall cabinet had been taken down to paint, was sitting on the floor, and on the top were rags, roller holders and handles and caulk. There was no way we could use our only full bath for showering the next morning to go to work.
I called the sales person “P” and told him what had happened and he came to the house. The first thing he said was “they aren’t finished yet”. I showed him all the issues I had and he said he would be here the next morning and we could discuss the issues.
Day 2 - The painters showed up first and the salesman had already talked to them. The senior painter “J”, said he had taken the venetian blinds down to paint, but when he was putting them back up he got some paint on them and he would clean it off. He also stated that I had told them they could store their stuff in the upstairs bathroom. I had, but they had already shut the door and I did not see the bathroom was packed with stuff, and they had even filled the tub and we couldn’t use the shower. The sales person “P” showed up awhile later and basically tried to smooth things over. The two painters went to work. Later as I walked past the bathroom “Earring” was getting ready to paint the bathroom window and the screen was still in the window. It is an interior screen because the window winds out. I stopped and asked him to please remove the screen before he started painting because if paint got on the screen it would be difficult to remove and it could damage the screen in the process of trying to remove the paint.. He never spoke or turned around to looked at me. I started showing him how to remove the screen. He turned around and said to me “we do this all the time”.
They finished at 3 o’clock and said that they were done. I looked at the blinds, the trim, the walls that a had brush stroke from the other paint color on them, and it looked fixed. Later that day I sat in the bathroom and the living room and looked around - there was white paint on the screen in the bathroom. The drywall over the shower had started to bubble out. The wood trim on the framework, wainscoting, and the bathtub wood frame had semi-gloss paint that had little lumps in it. The paint on the wood had puddled in the corners and the outside corners around the door frame had globs of paint hanging over the edge. Paint had been dripped on the shower tiles, etc. The front door had mocha paint on the side of the door frame, on a side that was not visible unless you were on that side of the living room. I started putting little pieces of blue painters tape all the bad spots. Then I called “P” to tell him what was going on. "P" came out and in addition to the spots I had found he started marking additional spots that he saw with his own roll of blue painter’s tape.
“P” said that he was going to send out “E” to fix things because “E” could make even his mother-in-law happy. “E” wasn’t available to come out until –
Day 5 – When “E” arrived he looked around at all the marked spots and found a few on his own. None of the nail pops on the stairwell walls had been fixed. He started to work immediately fixing nail pops, sanding and painting in the bathroom, and cleaned the window screen. I was impressed. Then he went to lunch. He was gone almost two hours because he had received a call about another job where the painters couldn’t reach a peak on a house they were painting, and he had to go there and do some work. He got back to work at my house, and then about 4pm he started packing up all his equipment. I said he could leave it until he came back on Monday, but he said he may not be able to come back on Monday because they had lined up a bunch of other jobs and he may have to go to one of those.
Day 8 – “E” did not show up. After about 2 hours I called “P” who seemed surprised because he said he had seen “E” leave in the truck much earlier. He would call "E"s supervisor and call me back. The supervisor called me back and explained that “E” had come into work but that he had been sick, and had some personal problems to take care of and had to leave work.
Day 10– “E” showed up and had another painter with him – a much older man that never spoke English, that I will call “O”. “E” was working up in the bathroom and “O” was downstairs working on trim (??). “O” spent most of the day running upstairs to talk to “E”. 12 o’clock came and went, and “E” and “O” never broke for lunch. So I said something to “E” and he said they were going to work straight through and leave early because they had something else to do. He also told me that the previous painters had used my old can of semi-gloss paint to paint all of the wood and that was why it looked like there was gunk in the paint. Then “O” started going upstairs more often and staying up there much longer and the conversations involved a lot of laughter. At 2 o’clock they both packed up and they left.
I went around the house and saw several things that had still not been done. I was so disgusted with Annapolis Painting Services I didn't even want them in my house again. As the days went on I noted the things that needed to be done still: The attic access wood in the upstairs ceiling had been painted with ceiling paint not semi-gloss and the metal piece that holds the wood top had ceiling paint on it. The rim of the ceiling light had been taped for painting but there was still paint on the rim. None of the nail pops in the upstairs hall had been fixed. There were thick swipes of paint on the hallway wall that needed to be sanded and repainted. The back of the spigot on the bathroom sink had white semi-gloss on it. There were still paint drips on the wainscoting and the trim on top. The linen closet door had been removed. Part of that painting had been done and the door had been put back
Bathroom still can see where medicine cabinet replace
Forgot to paint around door frame
Bedroom sills sloppy, electric sockets etc sloppy
Overall the entire experience was very pleasing. I managed to get a very quick appointment for an estimate, and the interior was measured within twenty minutes. I had the estimate by the end of the day. My estimate was done on a Friday, and they were able to start painting by Wednesday. The work was completed in five work days. The work looks very professional, and they did a great job repairing the nail holes and other minor imperfections. About the only complaint we had was that one of the painters left a banana peel on the floor at the end of one of the work days (covered by a tarp but still).
"[member's name removed], thank you for the time to write in, and the kind review. Sorry about the banana. Pat Donnelly Annapolis Painting Serivces"
"[member name removed], Thank you very much for the great review, and taking the time to send it in. We hope we can work with you again. Pat Donnelly Annapolis Painting Services"
"Thank you for your business and kind review. Pat Donnelly Annapolis Painting Services"
"[member name removed] thank you for taking the time to write your review. We value your business of hope to work with you in the future. Pat Donnelly"
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