We wanted a professional paint job on our 1300 sq. ft. condo so we contacted Harding Paint here in Airdrie. Wes was on time and gave us a quote of $3200. We decided to have them do the job. They showed up on time and prepped to do the ceilings. From then on things just kept going from bad to worse. The floors,furniture and cupboards were not covered well and were covered in paint dust. The plastic masking on the walls was removed by pulling it down. It should have been picked up by the bottom edge and raised to the ceiling trapping the wall dust. The next day wall painting started. The cut in was done with a bush that would have been better suited to barn painting. They cut all around the rooms and left deep brush marks because they didn't read the label on the paint can. That label states, cut in four feet and then roll. The two textures of barn brush cut in and rolled surface left borders around all the rooms. Wes the manager did come back and tried to fix the mess but a patch job just left us with wider borders around the rooms. They said we were getting two coats on everything, how to you have original paint showing in places with two coats? There are areas that I will have to spend hour sanding and repainting to get it to look like it should. The wife while cleaning up spent hours scraping wall paint off of the hardwood floors on the main level. There was no offer of compensation for the mess. This should have been an easy job all the baseboards and some the door casings were removed. We did a lot of the prep, filling holes and removing electrical covers. I don't do this every day and of course I missed a few spots. Instead of addressing these they were painted over, not once, but twice. The whole upstairs is getting new rugs so we told them not to worry about paint on the carpet. The whole experience has left us very unhappy. We were so looking forward to a professional finished paint job. What we got was a mess. We contacted the president of the company, Attila and expressed our concerns. He was here the next day and looked things over and was not impressed. He promised to make it right and he did. The next day there were two new painters (on time) at our door. The next two days they worked miracles on the place. When they finished they had done a fantastic job and cleaned up after themselves. Attila had promised us a cleanup crew but we passed, there was so little to clean up. After a bumpy start the place looks fabulous.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $3,200.00