Work was done in my kitchen, the works. Paint, countertops, flooring and light fixtures. They did a great job and we are very pleased. Only bad part was cleaning up after themselves. They left empty packaging out front in the driveway. We were right at budget, even after adding a few extras. Would use them again. read more

Be very careful in using Lalo Painting. I was definitely overcharged for the job done. Plus, midway into the total (2400 sq ft) interior painting, Lalo tells me he needs another $1000 for additional paint cost. No receipts were produced for the additional paint. I was told that $16,000 would include the paint and labor and to install baseboards in a small area. During the estimate I was told there was no need to clean the walls or fill in the holes. Lalo and his crew would take care of that - that was a joke. They painted over the dirt and filth on the walls. They only filled in the very large holes. I ended up washing and spackling most of the walls. The walls that were pre-cleaned ended up looking the best after the painting. When they were spraying, the cupboards, banisters and rails were not covered or protected, so the banisters and rails no longer have a smooth finish to them. Some of the cupboards were re-sanded and repainted, but not all of them. Most are all "bumpy". There are many areas with drips down the walls, cupboards, trim, shutters, bannisters, and rails. The paint was not covered when they left each day. 1 and 5 gallon buckets left open overnight for multiple days. No concern for the product care. The ceilings were supposed to be painted. Lalo was only going to put one coat of paint on the ceilings. It was very splotchy and uneven. I told him that a 2nd coat was needed. Finally he did it. When the walls were painted, only one coat of paint was applied. The color was splotchy and uneven. I pointed out that it didn't look good. Another coat was finally applied. Supposably, the paint was a "one coat" application. It needed 2 coats of paint for the color to look even and cover completely. Lalo uses inexperienced and not quality painters. At one point, Lalo had sprayed the ceiling and his crew went to paint the walls. To his dismay and mine, the wall color paint was sloppily applied to the ceiling. He had to go back to repaint those areas of the ceiling. This happened over and over again to the ceilings and trim. Eggshell paint was to be applied in the closets. I asked Lalo 3 times to paint the interior of the closets correctly. They would skip (not paint) areas that weren't easily visible (like on the shelves or the inside by the doors). I realized that they were using the flat paint instead of the eggshell paint. Even now, I found a section that didn't get painted at all. Even one of the bathroom walls looks so splotchy. This also was an area that was supposed to be corrected, but did not happen. At the end, I was told to take painter's tape to mark the areas that needed to be fixed/repainted/touched up. Most of the blue tape was removed without the anything ever being done to fix the issue. I assumed that those areas were being addressed when the tape was removed. There were/are so many areas that I didn't realize until later that they never were fixed. Sometimes I put blue tape in the same spot 3 times, only to have it taken down and ignored. Go with a professional painting company, not Lalo's. I was told that LaLos painting had done an excellent job on another person's cupboards. For that person, Lalo covered and protected areas so that the spray didn't go everywhere and leave splatter marks. I was told that as he sanded their cupboards, that Lalo was vacuuming up the dust. That didn't happen in my house. Dust and paint splatter went everywhere!!! At the end of the day, I was the one who was trying to clean up after this messy crew. Daily I would sweep and vacuum just trying to reduce the dust and dirt that they created. Lalo was going to spray my shutters inside my house. I was shocked! There would have been paint everywhere. I finally told Lalo "NO" that I was not going to clean up anymore of their paint messes in my house. So he decided to spray the shutters on my front lawn. I asked him to put something underneath the shutters to catch the overspray. He said no. My grass was WHITE for over 3 months while it grew out. My front yard looked terrible. The first week, the crew left their empty drink containers on my front lawn and in the planter beds. It looked so trashy. I told them that I would not do that to their yards, so they were not to do that to mine. How difficult is it to pick up your own trash??? At the end of the project when Lalo thought he was done, he just sat there and refused to address the drips, globs, missing paint areas. I just wanted them to leave and stop making messes that I was forced to clean up after them because they were not respectful of my property . Don't waste your time or money, hire a quality company and professionals who actually know how to paint. read more

He is a "wheeler dealer" in our humble opinion. He tried to squeeze as much money out of us as he possibly could. That seemed to be his biggest and constant concern. Was there a something, that he could find, in order to up our bill. He did nothing. He stopped by to check on his painters once in a while. He treated us as a side job that didn't count. His two painters were nice and good, it didn't speak English. They used quality paint. They put a good amount of paint on the wall and overall did a good job, but LALO refused a punch list. Who doesn't do a punch list? They broke a few of our canned lights and left them hanging for us to repair. They didn't even wipe the dust off of the light figures they put back. And they were really dirty. Plus, I specifically asked them to do that because it has bothered me for a long time and I can't get to them myself. They specifically talked us into paying them an extra $600 bucks, telling us "otherwise, they doors will peel". That's what he told us. So we paid him ANOTHER $600 bucks for sanding and then they NEVER sanded a thing. NOT ONE THING! They made a minor color mistake and he charged us another $200 to fix his error. He told us he would move our furniture around, no problem. We are disabled seniors, both of us. Then they saw our house and he wanted to charge us for moving furniture, too. My husband and I ended up moving the furniture around ourselves. He could see we were old. He didn't care. You hire a professional because you don't want to or can't do it yourself. At least, that's how it is for us. He could not have cared less. He said it would be a week and it was more like a month. And that was with us pushing him. He'll just say yes to anything and everything and then he doesn't do it and doesn't care, if you are happy or not is no concern to him. He'll look right at you and pretend he doesn't hear you. Or, he did that to me, as though what I wanted was of no importance. The kicker on it was we had cabinetry that PEELED (ironically) and he wouldn't come back and fix his small mistakes even though we paid that extra $600. We paid extra for it and no sanding was done. Nor, will he come back and fix his minor eff ups. Wouldn't even bother listening to us. Walked by us as though he couldn't hear us and left. SMH. We'll get someone else to fix the minor things that peeled or whatever other issue. Really wouldn't want the guy back in our house again because we're mad that he blew us off and have been mad about it, since he finished. Thanks Lalo, sorry I had to be honest. read more