Triangle Area Painting

Rick and his team did a fantastic job and we are very satisfied with their work. Professional, Prompt, Communicative, Hardworking, Priced Fair, and Reasonable. Will hire them again in the future.

Could not be happier. Always on time and very detailed-oriented, we are pleased with the work. We will definitely have them do work for us in the future.

It went well. They did an excellent job, especially on the crown molding.

He is always on time and reliable.

Paint work was okay but damaged our wood floors and spilled paint on our stamped concrete porch. Owner went MIA and never fixed the damage done by his workers. There were a lot of denials, excuses, we didn't do it etc. Would not recommend, does not stand by his work.

The owner Rick was a referral from our friends.   It started out with very sporadic work days with little over 5 hours a day of work being down when he was here.   The deck extension was finished in about a month, and then it became clear that he was finding people that he had never worked with before to do the roofing.   Looking back on it, I do not think he had ever down construction outside of poorly constructed decks.  There were 3 different teams working on the roof with little direction from Rick.   He would send them out to work on the project and they would figure out what to do on their own. 

Long story short.. we had to stop the work on the porch when the roof was sagging and not aligned with the existing roof.  We sued Triangle Area Painting and won the settlement, but have yet to get any money from it.   I've listed some of the specific items we sent him for reason of termination of contract.   Even with all these things, he threatened to sue us for all the money for the uncompleted project.   I wouldn't wish this company on anyone..  I hope this helps someone out there!

1). Despite our very specific instructions at the outset of work, workers failed to insure that the new porch roofline coincides with the existing house roof line. In fact, contrary to our request, the opposite was built: a new porch roof line that does not match the existing house roof line.
2). The roof lines of porch and house were connected at angles inconsistent with the house contour, contrary to what was specified and requested. 
3). In areas where house siding and underlying insulation were removed to accommodate the joining of the new porch roof line to the existing house, the insulation was never replaced when new siding was added, which is inconsistent with standard ?workmanlike? building practices.
4).The knee wall was formed with a 3 ½ gap at the bottom.  The particle board was then laid covering the gap but with no support for the long edge of the board. This is contrary to  what was requested and  to standard ?workmanlike? building practices.
5). The porch column posts were installed in such an awkward  manner that neither can the  soffit line up properly with  the existing porch, nor can the bead board on the gable be installed properly. None of these three conditions were requested nor are any of the three consistent with common ?workmanlike? building practices.
6). Interior bead board was used in place of exterior bead board on the exposed porch ceiling, an exterior structure fully exposed to the elements. The use of such an inappropriate material was neither requested nor is even practical, much less consistent with common ?workmanlike? building practices.
7). The ceiling bead board was so poorly measured, cut and installed that large and inconsistent  gaps exist  between it and the interior walls, reflecting extraordinarily poor workmanship.
8).   Rafters are spaced inconsistently, reflecting poor workmanship and  the possibility of NC Building Code violation.
9)      Contrary to both what was requested, the positions of porch ceiling lights were improperly measured and the lights, then,  improperly installed.
10). After the fact, we have learned that Triangle Area Painting has employed a non-licensed electrician to install the electrical wiring and components.
11). We have recently learned that Triangle Area Painting has neither called for inspections nor obtained the various Building Permits required by North Carolina law for such projects.

Owner either very busy or unorganized, poor response time with quote.  Was good as far as negotiating price.  Overall nice job done but most days only one painter showed up for only an hour or two.  They sprayed the house and hand painted the trim and doors.  Took them forever to complete the trim, dripped paint on patio and front porch, only cleaning up some of the paint, They did offer to come back out and clean up but they didn't do a great job on the clean up.  Poor job on doors and some of the trim, I was so frustrated that I didn't want them back to do touch ups and finish what was missed, I did it myself.
My overall feeling was that the owner needs to be present more on the job, no quality control.  The job took much longer than was expected, not due to weather but due to only one painter on job most of the time.  The owner and workers were very nice people but need to learn how to pay attention to detail and take more pride in their work.
 My take is if you want to save a few dollars they are ok, just expect delays and aggravation, if you want the job to be done on schedule pay the extra 500-600 dollars and save yourself stress and headaches.

I worked with Rick Howell of Triangle Area Painting, and I could not be more pleased with Rick's price and his service for my three room interior paint job!