My wife and I had been debating painting our bathroom for a while. This bathroom was pretty nasty, paint was peeling off in some places starting to bubble in others and was pretty much just a black eye to the rest of our house. After the first 3 painters came by and gave me quotes I told my wife there's no way im paying someone these crazy prices to paint the bathroom and i would just suck it up and do it myself. (Im an avid DIYer, love building, working on cars laying concrete all that kind of thing but painting not so much)
So enter BJ, the 4th and final quote, he takes a good look at the job checks out what he needs to do and gives me his quote, it was literally more than half what the other guys had quoted me. When I first heard the quote I thought for sure we weren't on the same page as to what I wanted done. So we talked a little bit longer and sure enough he knew exactly what I wanted.
Fast forward a few days later call BJ and agree to his price. He was pretty flexible with the hours he could work, even offering to come on the weekend if I was not able to be home during the week. Showed up right on time and he even texted me about 15 mins before he got there which was nice. He showed up, was super nice said good morning explained to me what he was going to be doing all the steps to the process and after that he just put his nose to the grindstone and worked. He put plastic sheet and tape over everything that wasn't being painted and was pretty clean about his whole process. Every so often he would come out and tell me where he was at in the project and I would check out the work he had done so far and than he was right back to work if i didn't have any questions.
I was a little skeptical at first because his price seemed too good to be true but after watching him work and periodically checking his work through the day my mind was quickly put to ease. There was a TON of scraping of old paint, sanding of old paint and than he would spackle and feather it all in so it all looked pretty seamless. After we saw the final product both my wife and I were very very happy.
So to wrap up PROS: punctual, friendly, extremely affordable, great final product, fast hard worker but not at expense of quality, has a contractors license
CONS: My wife wants to paint everything now. read more