Thick Coates

We hired for lawn work and power washing. They responded promptly and was very flexible in getting the job completed. They worked longer and harder than expected to make sure the job was completed perfectly. The completed projected was beautiful and we are already planning to hire them again for another project.

Thick Coates is a new business w/young owners, and what they can do, they do well: they paint neatly and fast. However, they lack experience with older homes and the non-standard paint situations that come w/them. In my older house, they painted latex right onto oil without priming first. When it started to flake, they first stripped some of it, then quit, leaving us with a mess & the project half-finished. They refunded some but not all of the deposit they asked for on the front end. They made amateur mistakes in our house (despite being told about the oil paint on trim), & quit rather than fix the resulting mess. Had to hire someone else.
Comment from Thick Coates
While it is true that we are a new business with young owners, we do, as noted paint both neatly and quickly. We are competent in painting with both latex and oil based paints. However, we are not certified to work with lead based paint. When the home owners decided to change the colors we just finished painting to cooler tones, we had to remove what was already painted. We asked the homeowners to obtain lead testing before we removed the new paint. The homeowners refused the lead testing, so we were unable to continue since we are not currently certified to disturb lead based paint.