CertaPro Painters of Clifton

I contacted Certapro to paint the inside and outside of my house for around $10,000. The paint on the outside was cracking before the end of the year. I called Frank Mai. He showed up, inspected the paint and saw that it was indeed cracking. But he only spot painted the area. Less than a year later, the paint was cracking again! This time, he repainted the whole house again but the crew he hired was absolutely horrible! They left paint spatters all over my outside banisters. They left wet paint on my lawn. They broke my garden hose holder and stole the garden hose attachment. They left paint chips chips everywhere. They left me with cracked and broken shingles. I'm actually worse off than I was before hiring them! And to top it off, they went into my garden shed without permission and left a drop cloth absolutely filled with chipped paint. This was the most horrible experience I have ever had with any contractor. I would absolutely caution you to stay far away from this company.

This job was done August-September 2015. It was done badly enough I still want to review it. He hired a laborer and did not supervise him much, if at all. For instance, there was paint on the glass of my light fixutre, a lot, not just a splatter. Paint on the floor everywhere. As the months went by, I saw the coverage was very poor - close inspection showed the previous color through small voids in the new paint - a thin coat indeed. He was willing to send his guy back perhaps six times to deal with areas he missed, painting the wall the wrong color (due to misunderstanding, etc.) But after so many times, I ran out of energy to keep having it fixed. He was 4x more expensive than buying the paint myself and hiring a handyman. He hired his own handyman and made a nice sum.