Six jobs, and what each one actually involved
Mostly two-families and triple-deckers built between 1890 and 1930, all within a fifteen-minute drive. The timelines below are the real ones, including repair and drying days.
Recent jobs
The part worth reading is not the color. It is what had to happen to the wall before the color went on.
Example projects The work below is illustrative. These are the kinds of jobs this business does and the timelines they really take, but the photographs are stock rather than the contractor's own, and the projects are written for a demonstration rather than drawn from completed work. A real portfolio here is the client's own before-and-after photographs.
Parlor and hallway, 1904 two-family
Forty years of settling had opened the same three cracks above the parlor doorway. Cut back, re-taped and skimmed before a drop of paint, which is why they are still shut.
Trim, portico and shutters
A pre-1978 exterior, so lead-safe containment from the first scraper. The sills came back as carpentry before they came back as paint.
Two-story stairwell and landing
The job most crews price high to avoid. Staged from the bottom flight, which meant the family kept using the stairs the whole week.
Cabinet refinish, no new boxes
Oak grain filled flat, doors sprayed in the shop, boxes done behind plastic. About a sixth of the replacement quote they had in hand.
Back porch, triple-decker
Two treads and a section of railing replaced first. Stain on a porch floor is only as good as the boards underneath it.
Two bedrooms, occupied all week
Water-stained ceiling sealed and patched, both rooms back in use each evening. Nobody moved out.
You will always know what happens next
Four steps, no surprises in the middle, and a number on paper before anyone opens a can.
Walkthrough
Ray comes out, looks at the actual condition of the plaster and the trim, and asks what has been bothering you about it. Half an hour, usually.
Written quote
A fixed price, itemized by area, with the repair work spelled out separately from the painting. No hourly surprises. It lands within two business days.
Repair, then paint
Floors and furniture covered, plaster cut back and made good, primer, then two coats. The same two or three people every day until it is done.
Walk it again
We go around together with the lights on, you point at anything you do not like, and it gets fixed before the final invoice.
What the people in those houses said
Nearly all of our work comes from someone down the street who had us in first.
They spent a day and a half on the walls before any paint came out, which I did not expect and which is obviously why the crack over the parlor door has not come back. Ray also talked me out of the more expensive option on the ceilings.
Meredith K. We had three quotes for the outside of our three-decker. Camberville was not the cheapest, but they were the only one who went up and actually looked at the rear sills before pricing it. Two were rotted. Better to know before.
Tom & Aline R. Our 1990s oak cabinets looked like 1990s oak cabinets. They came back sprayed smooth and the kitchen reads like a different room. It cost about a sixth of what the showroom quoted us.
Priya S. Two kids, one bathroom, and we could not move out. They sealed the rooms off every morning and had them back to us every evening, and the final price was the number on the quote. That is a low bar and almost nobody clears it.
Dave C.
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Yours could be on this page next season.
Tell us what is bothering you about the walls, the trim or the porch, and we will come and look at it properly.