A Splash of Color LLC

I have never been so disappointed in the integrity of a person. Joel had "one hour" left on our deck and I had a meeting so went ahead and paid the remaining balance (I know, dumb!). He didn't finish, cashed our check, and now 4 weeks later has never returned to finish the job despite repeated text messages that he was coming back. The sad thing is he did a good job but he will never get a recommendation from me and I will tell everyone I know to never hire him. So unfortunate.

The painting job started in October 2018 and has still yet to be finished. The wood rot was never taken care of. Joel was full of excuses from the start, but always talked a good talk. The work he did was shoddy...the caulking looks like 5-year-olds did it and the exterior paint is uneven. Lots of overspray and entire sections of the house were missed, More then half the bill has been paid, largely because he gave us a sob story about paying his guys right before Thanksgiving. After that, the only time we saw him was when he came to pick up his ladders when the ground thawed in the spring (the ladders were left to freeze to the ground in my back yard over the winter). He came over in April to do a walk around and said he would begin finishing the work the next day. I have not heard from or seen him since, and he is ignoring phone calls and text messages. We would strongly recommend never using Joel Stephens for ANY service.

A Splash of Color was hired by my general contractor to paint my new house. I should have known when my first interaction with him was when he showed up the first time to paint at 8:30 at night. I told him I almost called the police on him and he told me it was OK he knew all the police in town, should have been my first clue this wasn't going to go well. He wouldn't show up when he said he would, he was all full of excuses as to why he couldn't come. My favorite excuse was when he tried to tell me he got a total of 7 nails in all four tires after driving in my driveway and parking where I usually park. One may have been believable, but a total of 7 in all four, come on. His work was terrible, he had to come back several times to try to fix his mistakes- they usually ended up worse after he fixed them. I am attaching pictures of just one door in my house- this is just a sample of how bad my new house looks. My husband at one point took the brush from his hand and fixed some drips that Joel "couldn't see" and told him he could leave now. I now have a brand new house that I am going to have to repaint because the job is so terrible, my advice is to stay away!!