College Works Painting

I recently had College Works Painting paint my entire exterior house in the Avenues, SLC. Kevin, the intern in charge, was very dependable and had a very good and hard working crew. I was amazed to see Kevin working alone a few nights after the crew had gone home to make sure things were correct and to make sure the work was getting on time. I was very impressed with his work ethic and the job that they did was impressive. The paint quality was great and the color choice was also good. I had difficulty deciding on pain color for a part of the foundation, and found Kevin to be extremely accommodating. He went on 3 separate occasions to the paint store to try 4 new paint colors when the first didn’t work. I appreciated his flexibility with this and with the rest of the work. He did a great job.

We have just had our house painted by Alfonzo Lopez with College Works Painting here in SLC. We had lived in our house for 11 years and have always thought it would be great to get the exterior painted but hadn’t done anything about it. Alfonzo was coming door to door in our neighborhood, and usually I don’t give people the time of day, but he seemed so polite we decided to have him bid and chat with us. He was upfront about this being a learning type of experience for him during his summer break, and as the price was reasonable and we felt confident, we decided to go ahead with the job.
Alfonzo did a great job. The process did take longer than he anticipated, but he worked over the weekend for us in 100 degree heat to get the job finished. He was very thorough and cleaned up each night and had us look over work that had been done. I can honestly say everyone that has seen our house painted just loves it. Alfonzo proved himself to be trustworthy, hardworking, and I am sure he has learned some good managerial experience for the future.
10 329 S State St
Sandy, Utah 84 070

This is one of the worst companies.
In April of 2013, I had this company come and do a bid to paint the exterior of my house including the garage. This company hires college students as salesman/​project manager. Alex was our sales/​pm person and assessed the house and wrote up an estimate. We decided to go with College Works based on the price and the information in the contract. The contract stated everything that we wanted to get done.
Late in June on a Monday two people came to the house and started the painting project. The lead painter was Paulette and there was one more older gentleman working with her. They power washed the the whole entire house but they also power washed the windows. We specifically told them not to power wash the windows because this house was built in 1896 and some of the windows are the originals. Water blasted through all the windows sills and created huge messes in the interior rooms. They also broke a light sconce and left the broken glass laying all over the porch. When they left for the day, they did zero cleanup. There were paint chips everywhere and broken glass on the porch. It took us an hour to clean everything up. We talked to Alex and told him about the issues and he promised that everything will be cleaned up, etc. the next day.
On Tuesday the next day, we noticed that they did very little prep work on the windows. We told Paulette and Alex we wanted the windows to be prepped better, meaning all of the loose paint scraped off and sanded down to the wood. Also they did very little clean up on the jobsite. There were more paint chips and caulk residue everywhere. Once again, we told Alex this was not acceptable. He assured us that this won’t happen again.
On Wednesday, they decided to put an insanely amount of spackle and caulk on the window frames to smooth it out. Not only were the frames not smooth but they did not take any more of the loose paint off. Instead they just used more spackle to try to smooth it out. Also they used this substance that will dry in 7 to 14 days. No way could the paint or prime this until it was completely dry. Once again we told Alex about the issues. We said we are very close in firing them and they had one more chance to fix what was being done.
On Thursday, they decided spray primer on on about 4 window frames and one side of the house. So instead of scraping off more of the loose paint and sanding it down, they put on primer to hide what they were doing. Also there were overspray everywhere. By everywhere, I mean it was on the driveway, the foliage, the lawn, and the front & back porches. We talked to Alex and fired this company.
We had put down 25% deposit which we are trying to get back because of breach of contract. The company uses fly by night painters that are NOT college students. These guys are not professional painters and do not know what they are doing.
Under any circumstance, do NOT hire this company. You will will not be happy with College Works Painting.