Design Painting & Home Repair

Ander was wonderful from the start-very easy to talk to and professional. His estimate was received promptly and was very clear. His written communications were excellent, clear and concise, addressing all concerns. The crew arrived at the same time each morning and they worked all day for the duration of the project. There were no traces of debris or clutter anywhere in-between days. They cleaned up after themselves. I felt comfortable with them having access to the inside of the house as needed when no one was at home. The house looks beautiful and very professionally done. I had other estimates, but Ander seemed to be someone I felt I could trust with my home. Unless future problems arise from the paint application which was done during an intermittently rainy and humid week, I am very satisfied with having hired Design Painting/Design construction.

Design Painting has done a lot of work for us - all of it excellent!  Ander and his team do a great job - we would recommend them for any size job, and they're priced fairly.

As I have stated for this company under Design Construction, I trust the company's owner with the keys to my house. I know that the work will be done properly and on time. No job is too small or too big. He hires crew members to fit the job. He believes in paying his employees more than a living wage.

I know that he has done work for many of my neighbors and we all have had wonderful experiences. He spends a great deal of time on estimates and meticulously goes over every line. His communication skills are excellent and there are no grey areas of understanding. The company works hard and the owner oversees all crews if he is not doing the work himself.

The services described were preformed as detailed.  Ander was very responsive to our requests and questions.  The entire project took two days plus a few hours extra to come back and correct an aesthetics issue we had.  They installed some flashing to protect our deck and left a small space open and we could see the metal flashing.  Ander returned the following day and had the problem corrected right away. We found both higher and lower quotes but felt the most comfortable with this company.  A competitor, Pain One, wanted almost twice the price and a couple others were lower but we had to keep calling to get them to call us back.  Ander was very professional at all times.  The crew cleaned up after themselves and left our belongings untouched.  

This is what I observed on the day of the paint job when I checked on the progress of the work at 30-90 min. intervals: The garage doors were transformed from their old paint/bare wood state to being completely covered with new paint in less than 60-75 min. I did not see the painting process. The same thing happened with the porch interior in under 90 min. For the last 70 min. of the job I watched the work continuously. During that time I saw two coats of paint being applied to the porch exterior and metal brackets. Finally, the previously prepped brick had been covered with 2 to 4 coats of masonry paint in 7 hours or less. After completion of the job a month ago, I have observed the following: 1) Paint coverage of the garage doors is poor and there are dozens of small spots on the face of one door where BARE WOOD is still visible. (so where is the primer?) 2) Paint washed off the front bottom edge of the same door during a heavy rain one week after the job and bare wood was visible. 3)Neither the top nor bottom garage door edges were painted (both are directly exposed to rain). 4) There is no paint on the chimny end cap. 5) There is no new paint on several surfaces of the curved metal brackets. 6) The gable end drip edge unnecessarily extends up to one inch beyond the edge of the shingles. No roofing cement was used to seal the shingles to the drip edge. Both of these factors can allow rain water on the drip edge surface to travel diagonally under the shingles to the adjacent wood roof. It has rained a lot in the last month. Two weeks ago I noticed a darkened area and peeling paint in the corner of the living room ceiling near the drip edge.