Some light Exterior Home Painting along with Fence and Gazebo Staining
First off, I would like to say Sohail was a pleasure to deal with, very patient and assisted me in colour selections for the exterior garage frame and other exterior items.
The team selection to actually do the work is another story. The first team power washed our fence and gazebo horizontally, against the direction of the fence panels and gazebo panels, so you could see the power washing markings across the planks. Then they proceeded to stain on top and seal the power washing horizontal marking lines so they are noticeble ... looked just awful. Terrible lazy work.
We requested painting around our metal garage wood frame as the original builders white paint was flaking and so they did the frame around the garage but left all the white scrappings on the ground. Again, lazy and messy workmanship.
Then they proceeded to PAINT MY BRAND NEW INSTALLED WINDOW FRAMES, for which I did NOT request nor was it in the quote. When I discovered what they had done I demanded they stop immediately and they apologized for the mistake and tried to clean off the paint from my brand new installed windows. They claimed it was a properly cleaned but they had pushed the paint through the openings of where the windows open and paint actually got in on the tracks and the window was now sticking when I tried to open them. I demanded they leave immediately and they offered to come back to finish the cleaning and I told them they had done enough. I had to hire the window company back and clean the paint residue that was pushed in on all 2 1/2 window frames they had painted. The window installer had to disassemble the windows and clean each one (2 and a half large windows) with paint removal cleaner. He also had to replace the weather stripping on one window as they pushed and caked the paint onto the weather stripping in one of the windows. It was a terrible ordeal. I am just glad that our window installer was able able to get the paint off and fix the damaged weather stripping.
Long story short ... I do NOT recommend Five Star Painting to anyone and tell this awful storey to anyone that will listen to it.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $4,000.00