What Our Customers Say
A 5.0 rating on Google from 40 reviews, 93 five-star reviews on Thumbtack, and 150 jobs booked through that platform alone. Here are the reviews in the customers' own words.
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Fredy painted our large five bedroom home including all closets and full three car garage over four weeks. Fredy and his crew were polite and respectful and left our home as clean as possible each day. Fredy learned that I am very picky when it comes to paint and we worked together to address all of my nits. I would be happy to recommend his services to other people and I would use his service again in the future.
Ken W · GoogleWe are very satisfied with the exterior painting work. The job was completed in a timely manner with great attention to detail. Fred responded quickly, demonstrated professional knowledge, and provided friendly and helpful consultation throughout the process. Highly recommended!
BO K · GoogleFred shows up as he promises and will do his everything to make sure you are pleased before he finishes.
mikki freidkin · GoogleFredy and his crew were very professional throughout the entire process. They completed the work on time and exactly as expected!
Julie Crowder · GoogleMr. Fredy was the real deal! Very responsive, very focused on me, the customer and our needs. We had a tight timeline and he was able to work with those deadlines. We would use Fred's General Painting again.
John Millward · GoogleFreddy was prompt, professional and kept our budget in mind. He did an excellent job, completed the job on time and on budget. We will call him again. I highly recommend Freddy and his painters.
lindy gelb · GoogleFred and his crew were very professional and did a beautiful job on our condo. Fred checked in with us every day to make sure we were 100% satisfied. Highly recommend.
D R · GoogleFredy and his crew did a fantastic job reviving our 20+ year old deck - cleaning, replacing some rotten wood that sat under a hot tub, and re-staining to match the existing finish (solid stain). He was easy to communicate with, reliable, fair, and did excellent work. Will hire him again and recommend to neighbors and friends.
Cabin Samuels · GoogleFred did a great job painting my daughter's condo. He was fast, courteous and fair. We are very pleased and recommend his work!
Amy Bryan · GoogleFreddy and his team did an amazing job painting the interior of my townhouse. We are very happy with the final result. They are reliable, responsible and hard workers. I strongly recommend him 100%.
Maria Cruz · GoogleI was really happy I contacted Fredy to paint a hall and small room in my mother's house. First of all, he was willing to take on a small job--no minimum. Also, I had a time constraint, needing him to do the job while I was visiting my mother, and he was able to come out within days. He even threw in some extra work, painting part of the stairwell. His workers were professional, and afterwards, it looked great.
Karin W · YelpFred and his assistant did an amazing job constructing a deck railing and painting the exterior of my home. His estimate was very competitive, he was incredibly reliable, texting arrival time and completing the job with efficiency. He is thoroughly professional, went above and beyond, touching up areas I had overlooked which needed improvement. I wish I had found him years ago; his work ethic is nothing short of outstanding. I'd give him more than 5 stars if I could!
Susan L · YelpFredy was extremely professional, completed the job on time and had very competitive prices. He used high quality paint, and didn't cut any corners. He used the same team each day, arrived reliably at the same time and takes great pride in the quality of his work!
Zahid V · YelpFred has painted our home multiple times over the span of 14 years and every time has done an awesome job. His team are always a great team to work with. Fred is honest and always gives his best advice on types and quality of paint to use. He makes every effort to make sure we are happy with the color before he moves on. He is one of the most competitive in cost wise (and believe me I've checked around) and have always come back to Fred knowing the comfort that I won't be disappointed in his workmanship. Highly recommend.
Shetal P · YelpThe theme that comes up first: he answers
Read these in order and the first pattern is communication. BO K opens with the fact that Fred responded quickly. John Millward calls him very responsive and very focused on the customer. Susan L mentions being texted an arrival time. mikki freidkin puts it in one sentence - he shows up as he promises.
None of that is about paint. It is about a homeowner not being left wondering. Most bad contractor experiences do not start with a bad finish, they start with a phone that stops getting answered and a start date that keeps slipping. Fred is the one who picks up, because there is nobody else to pick up.
The same trait shows up as a willingness to move fast when it matters. Karin W needed a job done inside the window she was in town visiting her mother, and we came out within days. John Millward had a tight timeline and we worked to it. A small crew with its own schedule can do that. A larger operation routing work through a dispatcher usually cannot.
On time and on budget, said over and over
lindy gelb wrote that the job was completed on time and on budget. Julie Crowder wrote on time and exactly as expected. Zahid V wrote completed on time with very competitive prices. BO K wrote completed in a timely manner. Four different customers, four different jobs, the same two claims.
Estimates hold here because they are built by the person who will be doing the work, standing in front of the actual surfaces, rather than by a formula. When Fred sees a wall that needs three coats instead of two, that is in the number before you sign it, not added to the invoice afterward.
Several reviews also touch on value directly. Amy Bryan calls him fair. Susan L calls the estimate very competitive. Shetal P has checked around repeatedly across fourteen years and keeps coming back. Zahid V makes the important pairing explicit - competitive prices, high quality paint, and no corners cut. Being cheap is easy. Being fair while using good product and doing the prep is the harder trick.
The same crew, and a house you can live in
Zahid V wrote that we used the same team each day and arrived reliably at the same time. Ken W, who had us in his home for four weeks painting five bedrooms, every closet and a three car garage, wrote that the crew was polite and respectful and left the home as clean as possible each day. Maria Cruz described the team as reliable, responsible and hard workers.
That consistency is deliberate. Fred and four employees, and the crew on your project does not change halfway through. The man who filled a crack and sanded it is the man who paints over it, and he will be back tomorrow to see it in daylight.
The cleanliness is also deliberate. Most of our interior work happens in occupied houses, with people sleeping and eating and working from home a room away. Covering the floors, containing the dust, keeping a clear path and packing up each evening is not a courtesy, it is the only way a four-week job in a family home is survivable.
Not finished until you are happy
D R wrote that Fred checked in every day to be sure they were 100% satisfied. mikki freidkin wrote that he will do everything to make sure you are pleased before he finishes. Ken W, self-described as very picky about paint, wrote that they worked together to address all of his nits. Susan L wrote that he went above and beyond and touched up areas she had overlooked.
That last one is worth sitting with. She had not asked. He fixed them anyway because they were going to bother him.
The same instinct shows up in Karin W's review - a small job that other companies would not take, done inside a tight window, with part of the stairwell painted for free while the crew was there. And in Cabin Samuels' deck, where twenty-plus years of wear, rotten boards under a hot tub and an existing solid stain all had to be dealt with so the repair would not read as a patch. He called Fred easy to communicate with, reliable, fair, and said he would hire him again.
Shetal P's review is the summary of all of it. Fourteen years, multiple whole-house paint jobs, price-checked against the competition every time, and back again because she knows she will not be disappointed in the workmanship. Susan L reached the same conclusion faster - she wished she had found us years earlier.
Questions about our reviews and our record
What is your Google rating?
5.0 out of 5 from 40 reviews. Every one of them is a five-star review, which is the number Fred watches most closely.
How many times have you been hired on Thumbtack?
150 times, with 93 five-star reviews. We have also been named a Thumbtack Top Pro for five consecutive years, 2021 through 2025.
What does Thumbtack Top Pro actually measure?
It is based on response time, hire rate and customer ratings. It reflects whether a contractor answers quickly and whether customers are satisfied afterward.
Are these reviews real?
Yes, and they are reproduced word for word from Google and Yelp, including spelling and punctuation. You can read them on those platforms yourself.
Can I speak to a past customer?
Ask Fred at the estimate. We have customers in most of the towns we serve, several of whom have used us more than once, and many are glad to talk.
Do you have customers who hire you repeatedly?
Regularly. One family has had us paint their home multiple times over fourteen years. Repeat customers and their neighbors are where most of our work comes from.
Are you background checked?
Yes, background checked through Thumbtack, and we are licensed, bonded and insured under Virginia contractor license 2705098145.
What do customers complain about most?
Honestly, the most common note is wishing they had called sooner. If something is not right during a job, tell Fred that day - he would rather fix it while the ladders are still there.
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Ready when you are.
Fred answers his own phone. If he is up a ladder he calls back the same evening.