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| - I would give JRW Home Improvement a grade of D to C minus for our paint job recently completed. Preparation was clearly inadequate, as paint was sprayed on top of loose debris on many of our walls. The job was completed on Saturday night (that's when the crew left). On Sunday morning, we found peeling around trim, paint on multiple windows, overspray back onto trim and other structures. There is paint on all sorts of places where it shouldn't be. The stucco was not repaired, as far as I can tell. They used spray foam to repair cracks in our raised garden bed, and I fear that the same was done in the crack on the house. I fear that this paint job will not survive monsoon season due to the inadequate preparation of the surfaces.
On our awnings, rivets were popped off to move the fabric. Patio lights are covered in paint. This was a careless, sloppy job. Paint was applied thickly to the trim, in one coat, attempting to cover peeling. Most of the windows and trim are cracked and peeling. After meeting with father and son this morning, their conclusion was that I was being too picky, and they thought that the house looked as good as it was possible to. Our previous paint job, seven years ago, was done properly, and cost far less.
I hired them based on the reviews on Nextdoor, and because they were available on my schedule. It's going to cost a chunk of money to fix the problems that they created.
They should not be working on historic homes, because they don't understand how or why to prepare surfaces for painting. Their goal is for it to look good from the street, in their words, "a Monet."
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