In case the scope of your project is a standard painting or a simple carpentry job often accompanying the painting, based on what I have seen, I would recommend them. However, if the scope is anything beyond -- do not hire them. We had a real misfortune with Precision Painting Plus, and I truly hope it does not happen to others.
First off, there is the issue of incompetent project management and supervision. This is probably not a concern if the project is small in scope, but needless to say, this is a serious problem if it is months long and the matter occurs repeatedly. As an example, they had workers coming over without a proper idea what had been done the day before or earlier by their other workers, or where they needed to continue. They occasionally missed to even perform a required step (e.g., sanding a wall) because they thought it had already been completed. (It did not occur to them that the wall was obviously and visibly not sanded or flattened.) On one occasion (and I had to explain to them that it can't happen again) they had construction waste removal at 10 P.M. Ignore the fact that it is obviously a violation of (any) village or town ordinance; it was their own safety hazard. Overall, there does not appear to be any kind of meaningful intermediate quality control which resulted in several redos of some aspects of the works. Around one third into the project timeline, it became obvious it was a runaway, downbound, train and something had to be done. I made a major mistake by not dismissing them at that point.
Next, one could interpret their sales pitch / work-order-agreement as either incorrect -- if one assumes that the salesperson is ignorant or unqualified and does not know what it takes to execute and complete the required job -- or, worse, knowingly engaged in bait-and-switch of a customer. This is a grand issue with them, but let me point out but one specific example, whereby the contract states, for the purpose of removing the existing ceiling and installing a new one, that they shall "-Remove ceiling. Install new sheetrock. Tape, compound, prime and paint. *remove and reinstall in same locations all can lights.*". Once they had demolished the ceiling, they came up with a change of order for additional (thousands of dollars) to perform "Framing: Flatten ceiling, ..." I will leave to others to judge if it is fair from a contractor to tell you they will demolish and install a new ceiling, then say, after it had all commenced, they need to charge you for the frame for the new ceiling -- as if you buy a car only to be told you need to pay for the chassis additionally (not before you put your deposit with them). However, the most egregious situation is that they failed to deliver some core promises when we negotiated the contract. Either by ignorance or by the design the contract turned out to be profoundly misleading, whereby the customer is repeatedly tripped by one sort or the other of additional charge.
A further concern with Precision Painting Plus is poor workmanship of their subcontractor. Perhaps not all of their subcontractors are inept, but one given to us was. I have to say that later they did bring in a new flooring subcontractor -- much better than the original -- to continue the remaining required work. In summary, the end result is that we need to hire a new contractor to fix and redo some parts of their (original) subcontractor's work concerning flooring.
Finally, the most depressing part of our encounter with Precision Painting Plus -- one hopefully other potential customers will choose not to experience -- is the overall shoddy work of the most important part and the ultimate target of the project -- installing new wall and ceiling. To testify to the quality of their work, and to summarize it without going into gory details, it is such that we need to hire a new, qualified, contractor to demolish what Precision Painting Plus performed -- around 20-30% of it -- and redo this (substantial) part of the overall remodel. I tried to negotiate with them that they pay for the fixes that the new contractor needs to perform, but they fell short. I don't have a problem with people making mistakes (we all do) as long as they fix it. Precision Painting Plus does not stand behind their work. We are in the process of filing legal action. I must say that they appear to be really nice and affable folk -- but unfortunately, there is lots of incompetence among them, speckled with some quality workers here and there from what I have seen. Stay safe and look elsewhere if the scope of your project involves more than painting and your house demands quality and precision work.
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