"The power washers were skilled professionals, arriving early, and doing an excellent job power washing our whole house and
<br /> two decks. But the two guys who came a week later could barely speak the language so we couldn't communicate, and brought their two kids with them, 16 and 12. We did not want to be responsible for two kids around a "construction site." We've had non-English speakers do excellent work on our house before, but they were supervised by someone who could communicate with them. These guys did shoddy work, caulking here and there instead of full windows etc. We called the company and they sent out the sales rep who sold us the paint job. He talked to the guys and things seemed better. But the guys went back to their usual way, rushing through the job. My husband stayed home from work for three days and checked on them every hour, making sure they did the quality work we were expecting. After prep, they were supposed to spray, then brush the paint on. But they sprayed like crazy and did minimal brushing so there's "hangnails" of paint where it ran or clustered. The house looks okay, but we've got some fix-up work to do next summer. Cityscape's price was about half the other outfits who gave us estimates (the ones we could get here, they were all so busy by May). We thought (hoped) the cheaper price was because Cityscape was experienced and efficient, but it was because they were fast and skipped over details. If I could do it over, I would have gotten estimates in March, before actual painting started and outfits would be more likely to respond. And I'd probably go with someone more expensive, or a smaller company that could supervise their jobs better.
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Margery P. on September 2014