W J Skouras & Co

We live in The Ledges condominium complex in Winchester, Massachusetts. There are 110 units, and WJ Skouras sent painters to power wash, prep, and paint our units with a solid stain product. In my opinion, this is a massive job to undertake.
We have been living in our unit for five years and the board has never had the entire outside painted, while we have been living here. Our board selected this company to do the work. In our opinion, they came to work to work, were extremely professional, careful, and detail oriented. This is such a major job and we felt they were an amazing group. Organized, professional, and easy to have around. I have absolutely no relationship to these people, but I felt that it was important that someone write a review and say something positive about this company. Here’s hoping you’ll keep up the great work, WJ Skouras. Tony was terrific as the lead on this job.

I am honored to be the first to review this painting company. In order to give our house a facelift before we put it on the market, my husband and I sought several quotes from painting contractors for exterior painting. From unreturned calls to quotes almost double of others to no show appointments, we were quite discouraged by the service and response from several companies (we probably contacted 8 or more inclusive of this one). In fact, some companies even came to our house, but never sent out quotes. The pursuit reminded me of dating with
Mr. Wrong standing you up, etc.
Anyhow, John, the owner of this company, was responsive and his quote was the most competitive of the few we did manage to obtain so we decided to go with WJ Skouras. We were skeptical as his price was so much lower, but we took a gamble.
Ever since the house has been painted, we have neighbors and strangers alike tell us how good our house looks. Mind you, the paint was peeling and the house was a boring white before, but we have never gotten so many compliments on our house. It is no longer the ugliest house on the block and it’s hard not to feel like a proud homeowner when you are walking the dog and random people tell you how great the house looks.
The painters were able to chip away the old paint in one day and then finish painting the ENTIRE exterior of the house on another day. Not to mention, it was almost 100 degrees both days, but the three workers slaved away and got the job done. They not only did the house and the trim, but they freshened up our railings, our front door, and the trim on a shed in the backyard as bonuses and upon the suggestion of John. The workers were sweating through the job, but never complained. It was crazy, but they never even asked to use the bathroom. I offered them water constantly, but they refused although they did happily accept some popsicles towards the end of their day.
We were excited when the job was done, but disappointed in all of the chipped paint that was disposed of in our front and backyards. Since neither my husband nor I are confrontational, we resigned ourselves to the fact that we would have to clean up the mess ourselves. However, just like he consulted with us in person prior to the project, John came back the day after the job was completed to check on his crew’s work. He also noticed the chipped paint and had his workers return the following day with a supervisor to clean up the debris and to touch up some spots they missed. We were so amazed at John’s attention to detail. I am typically a perfectionist and even I did not notice the few spots he did.
We are grateful that we have a beautiful paint job and that it was affordable. Thanks John! We already have some neighbors jotting down your phone number for their own paint projects.