Fine Touch Painting is exactly the kind of contractor everyone hopes to find but rarely does. We were asking around for the best painting contractor on the Long Beach, WA peninsula and multiple locals pointed us to Fine Touch Painting. I called and spoke with John, who turned out to be the owner. He came highly recommended by many people in the area, and after meeting him in person, I immediately trusted him with our project. Within 24 hours, John came out to look at the job and provided a very competitive, detailed bid. His pricing was spot on and he never went over the agreed cost. For the quality of work delivered, his bid was by far the most cost‑efficient option we found. Fine Touch Painting exceeded our expectations in every way: They showed up every day on time. They coordinated seamlessly with other contractors on our project. Their quality, pricing, and scheduling actually outperformed a similar remodel a friend of ours did with a different contractor. The crew was consistently polite, professional, and kept the worksite clean from start to finish. John kept every promise he made, and it's clear he takes pride in both his craftsmanship and his reputation. I honestly wish I could find a contractor like John in my own hometown to handle all of my general contracting needs. I highly recommend Fine Touch Painting to anyone on the Long Beach peninsula looking for a trustworthy, professional, and high‑quality painting contractor. read more

The owner (John) is dishonest with his responsibilities as a painter. Completely screwed up my interior paint job. The entire inside had to be repainted. I would avoid this painter like the plague. I am now finding out with talking to other painters on the peninsula that much of his work has to be redone. read more

John came highly recommended! His work is excellent He installed our cabinets precisely to the specifications of the counter installation company request. We had other odds and ends he was able to do so we could wrap up the project like install the microwave etc. He was very thorough efficient and communicative. We highly recommend him! Also very fair price in a competitive market. We will call on him again. read more

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Beware, Do not hire John - he will oversell what he can do, he will not do the job correctly, and he will continually tell you that you need to pay him more money. IMO he is intentionally fleecing people and unfortunately in many cases getting away with it. John came to bid on a project: Taping up new drywall in the basement and garage including handling a couple of tricky spots that he said he could do. Then painting with one coat of primer and in the house adding a coat of paint (primer only for the garage, new drywall primer plus one coat of paint is plenty). John's bid was 2-3 times the price of any other bid. We told him so and he agreed to lower it to the price of other bids. John required 1/2 payment up front, a warning sign always (you never pay before the work is done, you only pay for supplies upon delivery to the house). However, because a trusted friend had referred John, we unfortunately agreed. John had a clause no other contractor had that said if things were discovered during the job that required additional work the price would need to be increased. John got paid his 1/2 up front and indicated he would start work right away. After a week we called to ask where he was and he said he was finishing another job and it would be a couple days (not what he said when hired). The first visit John dropped off some supplies (we had supplied the paint) and looked around and left, not there even an hour. He then called and told us the price was going to have to be increased as he was seeing things he didn't see his first time through. Some things had been stacked against some walls at that time hiding areas so we agreed. He didn't show again until we bugged him about when was he going to work - he had long since cashed the check we had given him. Several times during the job he demand more money - he hadn't noticed something or something was more difficult than he had anticipated. We said no, he had seen everything and should have known the effort it would take to do the job and he was already getting paid higher than any other bid we had received. The garage with it's one coat of primer looked good. John did the drywall work in the house very slowly, a few hours here and there. We regularly pointed out spots he had not done, he said he just hadn't gotten to them yet. One tricky corner that needed drywall he made a suggestion to cover it with some cheap plastic - this was in the middle of a gorgeous living room. We did not agree. Suddenly John said he was doing the painting and would be finished that night and wanted the rest of his money that night before he left. A quick look was given and he was paid the other half of his money. The next day in the sunlight, the paint was streaky and didn't cover well at all. Also much of the drywall work had still not been done at all, just painting over those areas instead. John was called and he said the walls needed a second coat of paint (over the primer and first coat of paint), for more money of course. He said he would also do the drywall work he had been hired to do and hadn't done. He was hired to do a second coat of paint on top of the primer but was not paid up front for that portion. John came and spent more time at the house and wanted his payment but was told the paint would be checked out in daylight first. When checked, the walls looked the same, streaky and not covered well - in fact most walls didn't look like anything had been done. John still had not completed the drywall work. John's reply was that a third coat of paint would be required. We realized at that point John didn't know drywalling and his painting skills were very poor. The funny thing is the garage (first thing pained with primer only) looked great. But the house rooms looked awful. We became suspicious that John didn't use the correct amount of paint. We looked at how much paint John had used and it was less than half the amount the manufacturer said would be required. The paint store confirmed that John had not used enough paint and using too little paint would leave the walls streaky and not covered well. We refused to pay John that last payment (he took us to court and we won and did not owe him anything). We had to hire another painter to come and fix the job John botched so bad - they did a wonderful job with the drywall patches (they knew what they were doing) and the painting and their prices were better than Johns even before he started continually asking for more money. We reviewed the work done at the friend that had referred John, and that work had been left not fully completed. At the time John did the work for us, he was not licensed or bonded. Make sure John is licensed and bonded and call the bonding company and be sure they are still covering him and confirm he has no lawsuits against him. Even if the judge said he owed you money it is difficult to get without a valid bond to pay you. read more

John came highly recommended to us and we were super-pleased. He is professional, proficient, personable and his pricing was fair and competitive with similar services. He painted the interior of our new home, with lots of vaulted ceilings, plus our out-building. His painting deserves nothing but superlatives. He is a very kind, detail-oriented, ethical fella and everything was left in perfect order. We would highly recommend him to anyone needing the services he provides. read more

I would give 0 stars if I could. Last week this company started working on our neighbors exterior paint. They started pressure washing, sending paint chips allover the ground including our property which is around 2 feet from the exterior of their house. We asked them to please tarp the area as the house was built in 1890 and possibly contained led and we have small children and dogs that play where the paint was falling. They refused to tarp and promised to do any cleaning up of paint chips (which they assured me there wouldn't be any to clean up anyways) The workers finished for the day and left, NOT cleaning up any paint chips. We waited another 24 hours, no cleanup. My husband called to complain, the owner promised to come out and clean up. The rain and windstorm we were expecting arrived still with no cleanup. Fast forward today, they are back working and I confronted them. They claim someone came out and raked the paint chips however paint chips are still seen and a rake will not pickup all the paint chips anyways. Absolutely unprofessional. Pictures shown are after the owner claims they were out cleaning up. The other issue is, the employees were on my property without asking permission for access to begin with. read more