SOUNDVIEW PAINTING LLC

Barton and his team were very professional and they provide five star workmanship. I appreciate Barton’s knowledge and advice on color selection! I highly recommend Soundview Painting’s services!

I hired Soundview painting for the exterior of my house. They did a great job. Very reasonable priced. Recently I then hired them for interior painting. Again a great job. They are easy to work with. They do a great job with cleanup. Bart is very professional. I recommend Soundview painting.

I highly recommend using this company for all your painting needs! The team is efficient, respectful, and easy to work with. We plan to use them again in the future.

Excellent!! Whole home done in one day! Fast and efficient, with quality work. This is the second time I have used Soundview painting.

I used Soundview Painting for the exterior of my house!! Bart and his crew did an amazing job!! They were punctual and very professional!! I would highly recommend Soundview Painting for any home project!!!

Work began on time. I was very impressed with their work, I love when contractors are meticulous. That's no usually the case.

Hired Bart and his team this past summer to paint the exterior of our home after watching his team do a great job painting my neighbor’s house. Bart was punctual, gave a thorough and competitive bid, and responded quickly to my questions and texts before, during and after the job. His pricing was fair, his team was punctual, focused and thorough. They left the jobsite each evening clean and organized. I won’t hesitate to use them again for exterior or interior jobs. Professional work at a very competitive price!

We needed an exterior face-lift in our home in Beaverton. From first contact to scheduling and executing the work things went perfect! This team is top notch and I would recommend them to anyone that needs some much needed exterior love for their home!!!

Bart is pretty straight forward with what Soundview Painting will do for the price quote he gives. The guys did a fantastic job and I would highly recommend them for the quality work they do. Thank you Bart my wife and I appreciate your service.

Bart and his crew did an outstanding job for us! I would highly recommend them which I already have! They were professional, used quality paint, responsive , on time did a great job cleaning up! and great price! We love the house color and trim color Bart helped us select!

The team was efficient and their work was great! They did excellent work at a great price!! I would definitely recommend Soundview painting

Perfect, professional, reliable, efficient, done on time. Reasonable price, and beautiful work.

Excellent work, fast and a fair price.

Bart and Shane did a top quality exterior paint job. After power washing it took a day and a half to complete this job. This is 3rd time I have painted this house since 1996. Best job ever. Thank you guts. Highly recommend

Bart and his team did excellent work on my house in a very timely manner. Got quotes from a couple of companies, Bart's was significantly better than others. Job was done while I was out of town traveling. When got back the exterior of the house looked good a new. Highly recommend Bart and his team!

Showed up on time and got the job done in a timely manner

Barton came to my home an gave a fair estimate. He said he could get the job done in one day! but we added another room so it took 2 days. I was appalled at what I seen after he was done. I called and asked if he could come back because the baseboards were all painted with his paint which was white, and my walls were all different colors. My bedroom was very dark red colors. When we spoke he got upset because he said he had pictures of my baseboards that were mark up with the paint before. I know some of it was of that color, but most of all my baseboards were full of his white paint. He said he would come back, but still was highly upset and started to curse at me and the told me to "F" OFF and hung up on me!! I went through the house some more and found paint on the floor and my sofa. He also did not paint between a door and closet door which is the same color as before!! plus the wall in master bath has a hole section missed!! and he also said he take nails out, an there is nails in with paint over them. I'm a business owner for 30 years an I would NEVER SPEAK to a customer in such language as Barton did. He tryed to tell me he did two coats of paint in my master room with dark colors and did not charge me, as we did the walk through we talked about that how many coats he said one with no problem! so its not my fault he don't know how to bid correctly!! Barton and his crew did the most horrible job.

PAINTERS CAME TODAY AND STARTED ON HOUSE. THEY SAID THEY WOULD BE DONE TODAY AND IF NOT TOMORROW. GOING GOOD SOOO FAR. WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN JOB IS FINISHED.

I have had to wait for one year to post this as Soundview painting finally finished the job they started last September 2014. The bidding process was OK, although the owner Bart stated he would give me paint samples, then said it was my responsibility to get them myself. I picked out 7 different samples (3 for house, 2 for trim and 2 for front door.) Bart said he could only sample three colors without charging me 10.00 per additional color. I thought that was a little expensive so I picked up the colors myself  (all of them) at Home Dept for under $20.00. and provided them to Bart to put on my house so I could select the final colors. This process took three weeks, even though I did most of the work! Once the colors were selected, the house was painted, which was the only process that went smooth, although, the front door was apparently not part of the original bid and I was told this after I had selected the paint for it. I was charged an additional $100.00 for the front door. Also, the bid only covered two coats of paint on the already white trim. Once the house was painted, the trim looked like it had paint marks through it and I could see through the new paint to the old paint even though both colors were white. I expected to pay for complete coverage of my house and trim, whatever that costs. It was irritating that I again had to pay another $200.00 above the bid to get coverage on the trim. I wish that the original bid would have covered the front door and however many coats to make my house look nice. Soundview did paint my shed for $100.00 which was not in the bid at my request. Once the house was done, and I paid the additional $400.00, and the job was done.
I had in my contract that after our deck was removed in the Spring 2015, Soundview would return and paint the part of the house where the deck had been covering. In early February, I noticed that our address numbers had been removed during the painting and they had forgot to put them back up. I emailed Bart and asked him to replace our address numbers as it was hard for people to find my house. Bart said he would come by and replace the numbers. This was not done for over 6 weeks and several emails.
I also had stated at that time that I would be ready for the paint job to be completed in the summer and I would be emailing them to finish the job as the deck had been removed. I understood it would have to be worked in as it is the busy season for house painters, which is why I emailed several weeks in advance, so Soundview could plan a day to finish my house, which had been paid for in advance.
The correspondence that we received from the owner Bart regarding our request was the most disappointing part of this process. Bart was rude, dismissive, short, and down right nasty in the email responses we received  when we asked him to finish a job that he was under contract and had been paid to do. We were patient in the beginning and would wait for him to respond to our request for several days to weeks. He even lied about coming by our house to finish the job in July but the paint was not left out. He never communicated to us that he was coming by so of course we never left the paint out, but we were home all summer and he did not stop by and lied and said he did. Wouldn't someone at least email, text, call, or leave a note if they stopped by to do a job they were supposed to do?
When we called him on that we received the following emails
On Aug 28, 2015, at 6:58 PM, I wrote:
    Hi Bart,
    I have not heard from you after you said you would finish my house several weeks ago, when we emailed early July you said by the end of July . Can you please make time to finish my house. You said you would get to it at the end of July? Can you let me know which day in the next two weeks you can do it please? I think we have been more than patient. Thank you.
    ES
    Have a great day!
Bart Replied- On Sep 10, 2014, at 6:44 AM, Soundview Painting wrote:
First I said middle July and second I came by twice nobody home and paint wasn't left out!! I will be working out if town until sept. 13th then I can come by when I'm back
Sent from my iPhone
we responded telling him he needed to give us notice he was coming by. He responded below
From: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:32:47 -0700
I don't need attitude!! Period it I will just say screw it
We responded saying just do your job and tell us when your will be there or forget it. He responded over three weeks later.
From:     Bart ([email protected]) You moved this message to its current location.
Sent:    Fri 9/18/15 1:53 PM
If you leave paint out Monday I can come by and touch up back side !! Don't have time but it's going to be dry ! I will come by between jobs
They finished the job on that Monday Sept 21, 2015. The work was terrible and we have to hire someone else to redo the entire back part of our house where the deck used to cover.

Showed up 5 mins early on both days. Cleanup was excellent. Painting was excellent - although a few touch ups were required, that would be expected since I change colors in all rooms. These guys are very quiet and go about their business. Excellent communication between Bart Sullivan and I and I knew what to expect before and during their work here. I would recommend them and would use them again if I needed painting done or knew someone who did.   Fast and efficient and I'm quite satisified with their work!!

We called this painter prior to subcribing to Angie's List. If we had done so we would have saved so much time, emotions and money. We would never have called this highly unprofessional painter. He gave us a price that was under competitive bids. I looked up on his website the one referral that was given and called that referral. He gave a thumbs up on his work. I have doubts if it was a genuine referral now. He bid on our kitchen cabinets, both the boxes and the doors and drawer fronts. 
He said he would have to prime all items with a special primer since the paint on the cabs were lacquer. He said he would sand everything since putting a latex paint on lacquer would not adhere. His first day he enveloped the kitchen in plastic, lightly sanded and put on a primer. Next time he came he put on two coats of latex paint. The next time he came he took down the plastic and cleaned up the area. 
I was in another town while all this was happening except for the last day. I learned from my wife that the first visit was occupied by this painter and owner telling my wife all about his physical muscle building experience, his real estate investments and a complete run down of just how great a person he was physically and so forth. Out of the four hours he was here he worked one hour while his associate did most of the work. When I came home my wife was upset that paint residue was on everything in our family room. I asked the vendor why his plastic tent failed to protect our furniture. He said my wife turned on the air conditioner and that he told us not to do so during the time he gave us his bid. My wife overheard his comment and said that on his second visit he was shown the paint residue. His response to her was "I'm really am sorry but I forgot to tell you not to turn on the air conditioning".  I told him what my wife said and he said nothing.  Caught in the act of lying.  We had to have a professional cleaning person come in and clean off everything we could.
During his clean up I mentioned he missed painting part of the cabinets.  His response was he didn't know how he missed it but would take care of it when he brought the doors back and the drawer fronts when he finished spraying them in his paint booth.  He called a couple days later and said he was bringing back our shelving and a few of the doors.  When he arrived I notice the doors were dull and chaulky, not smooth.  He said there was nothing wrong with them but I said the door should be the same as the boxes, a smooth feel and not a rough feel.  He stomped off with the doors I had pointed out.  
Two days later he called and said he was going to bring all the doors and drawer fronts over to our house since he finished painting them.  He said he would be at our place at 10:30.  I told him we had real estate appointments and would not be here but could do it in the afternoon.  He said my doors were in his way and he needed to get them out of his paint booth.  He then launched into a tirade calling me names and just before hanging up on me said he was going to take all our cabinet doors to the dump. 
The next day I called and left a message that stated what I would do if he did not return our cabinet doors and fronts which included turning him in to the police, to the BBB, to imbed a review into the internet and sign up with Angie's List and enter a review there.  On Monday he called and asked if he could bring over the doors.  We made an appointment to do so.  He brought them over and left.  He wanted the balance of his money right then and I said we would mail it to him.  My wife was gone but when she came home she took a roll of blue tape to indicate where the cabinets were still not done professionally.  They had fingerprints, hand prints, smuges, unpainted areas and areas that were already pealing of new paint.  I took a sample of the doors to another painter who was highly recommended.  He immediately asked if he could scrape a small section with his fingernail.  The paint came off like sunburned skin.  The painter did not prime the door like he said he would.  To make the doors work would mean sanding all the paint off which, on 23 door and 9 drawer fronts, would be excessive in terms of time and money.  He said the only thing we could do would be to have new doors and fronts made and painted.  And that is what we decided to do. 
We threw out the all of what the painter did and bought all new raised beveled doors.  By the time we ended this scenario for new cab doors etc. it cost us $1446, $146 over the balance of what he said we owed him.  While I was having the referred painter look at Bart Sullivan's work, Bart Sullivan happened to call.  He said for us to keep the $1300.  I told him of the evaluation regarding the fact that the paint was not sticking and came off easily with a fingernail.  He accused me of not letting the paint dry.  I had Bart on the speaker phone and the referred painter told me to ask what primer he used.  He told us the brand of primer.  The conversation continued and a couple minutes later said he didn't prime the items at all since I told him I had sanded the doors.  I told him it was not my job to do his job and so in the end we found him lying about the primer question and at the same time admitting he didn't prime at all. 
Bottom line---never let Bart Sullivan give you a bid on any project weather drywall or paint.  How this guy could be in this business and treat people the way he does is scary.  Including his personality. 

After using this company with good results for the exterior painting of my home, I accepted their bid for the interior. The work did not include priming of the doors as had been discussed when the job was bid. Now the paint is peeling in the powder room and on the powder room door. My wood floors were not completely covered so there was overspray on the floors. There was also paint on an area rug and the living room carpet. I moved most of the furniture from the rooms, but a few pieces could not be moved and they were not adequately covered which I mentioned should be covered. My suggestions were not taken seriously. The painter's assistant was a nice guy but was new to painting so the trim areas are not quite straight and patch work was not acceptable. The job took a week since they would leave for another job. There was a big difference between the interior paint job and the exterior job.