They came, they saw, they painted
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
United States
March 15, 2016 11:39am CST
The painters showed up yesterday morning, just 5 minutes late, not bad at all! They worked until about 3:15. They took a lunch break and a few cigarette breaks, but other than that they worked! Quite different from painters we hired 5 years ago for a different home.
Today they showed up about 10:15 or so, finished up and left about noontime. The young man, the assistant, had a lot of fun with our fancy vacuum cleaner sucking up dog hair from behind some of the furniture that hand't been moved since we moved in. That's one way to get spring cleaning started!
They did good work, the price was very fair and I would certainly recommend them. I need to go on Home Advisor and provide my glowing comments.
All's well that ends well!
Photo:pixabay.com/en/brush-paint-blue-can-color-293943/
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18 responses
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
16 Mar 16
@AbbyGreenhill Surely there are many US residents who are descended from Italian immigrants.
In fact, Julius Caesar visited England, so he may have met a local girl and one of his descendents could have been on the Mayflower.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
@Asylum Was Ceaser very tall? This guy is so short he has to stand on a ladder to reach the baseboard!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
Julius Caesar - his guy is originally from Ohio so I don't think so LOL
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
15 Mar 16
My husband's grandson is only 4 - he finger paints only LOL!
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@LeaPea2417 (36382)
• Toccoa, Georgia
16 Mar 16
I am glad it all worked out great for you.
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@LeaPea2417 (36382)
• Toccoa, Georgia
16 Mar 16
@AbbyGreenhill That is good. I remember in my younger days, helping to paint a room and the smell of paint affected me.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
Thank you - and the paint smell wasn't bad.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
17 Mar 16
@LeaPea2417 Some paint is worse than others, I think they have improved it.
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@LadyDuck (457314)
• Switzerland
16 Mar 16
@AbbyGreenhill You have a long and hard job to finish, but the house is better now.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
They finished yesterday at lunch time. Our house got lighter with all the dog hair they sucked up along the way LOL! That's one way to get some spring cleaning done. Now we have other cleaning and putting rooms back together - they moved all the furniture to do the baseboards. We have to go out soon so we're putting off doing that for a day. they did a good job and for a reasonable price.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
Free is good, but we don't have any relatives to do it for us.
@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Mar 16
Great! Glad to hear all went well. Sounds like it take them too long too. That is always nice. I'm sure they will be pleased with your positive feed back on Home Advisor.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
We also need some flooring work done and he gave us the name of man he knows who does good work, so that will be the next project, once we put this house back together! I need relaxing time between destruction!
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@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Mar 16
@AbbyGreenhill ....Yes, relaxing time is nice.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
15 Mar 16
Sounds like a successful story of the painters painting. Did you paint the inside of your home?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
15 Mar 16
One bedroom, repaired one wall in the garage and painted it and removed a few 'decals' the original owner put up and fixed those walls. Today was fixing the baseboard..the baseboard is wood, was never sanded and sealed so dust/dog hair sits/stick to the top of it - they sanded it all down and sealed it. That was today's job.
@Tampa_girl7 (48865)
• United States
16 Mar 16
We have always done our own painting. It's good that you were pleased with their work.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
We're old and we rather pay a pro - it wasn't that expensive.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
15 Mar 16
All done, now we have to clean all the rooms since the dust has been re-arranged...
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
15 Mar 16
@AbbyGreenhill I decided I had prob start with one room and one corner and start cleaning as I go, I got the desk done, will get the table cleaned off later
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
@Jessicalynnt Good for you!!! It's the 'starting' that sometimes is the hardest. Did you see all the new stuff on Crowdtap?
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
16 Mar 16
Good i'm pleased that it's done fairly quickly for you...and with some free vacuuming too... and that you are pleased with it 
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
They picked up quite a lot of 'hidden' dog hair.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
@sueznewz2 That's right! But now we have to clean and dust everything else. boo hoo
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
16 Mar 16
@AbbyGreenhill yeeeyyyy one less job for you... or hubby... ?!
@Marilynda1225 (79557)
• United States
16 Mar 16
Glad to hear your painting is all done and that you have rave reviews for them.
@JudyEv (325264)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Mar 16
That's good that it's all done and finished - and even better that they were so efficient.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
We are very happy - and I found him on my own.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
16 Mar 16
And you end up with freshly painted walls and a brand new outlook! I love the difference paint makes in a room!
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Mar 16
Especialy going from white to a dark-ish brown...quit an impact.
@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
16 Mar 16
@AbbyGreenhill OOh yea that would be kind of rich looking- nice!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
15 Mar 16
Thanks, yes, it was a real pleasure dealing with this painting company. And he loved Ruby she got a lot of attention too!
@amadeo (111948)
• United States
15 Mar 16
if your happy with it.Thats all it counts.One project out of the way.
