Austin Exterior Painters

"Excellent!  is a master craftsman and his crew is equally skilled.  They worked hard from start to finish and all of their work was excellent.  Cabinets were transformed from old and dingy to looking like they were new and straight from the factory.  Walls and trim were painted with perfection in mind, and ...more results were picture perfect.  This was an extensive job and we ran into a number of surprises along the way (e.g., unexpected repairs that were needed), but each time,

knew just what to do to solve them.  He also has a good eye for color and made excellent suggestions.  He also listened well and was always cheerful and easy to work with.  I appreciated that he and his crew were diligent in making sure floors and other surfaces were covered and protected before painting, and they did a great job of cleaning up when they finished.  It was a pleasure working with

.  He is a professional who knows what he is doing and is happy when you are happy with a job well done. "

"They were excellent.  Everything turned out well.  They were good people and they did a good job.  I thought the price was fair.  They were very professional.  They did good prep work.  They did a good clean up.  They were very good.  I would recommend them to anybody.  I got what I paid for.  I would ...more absolutely use their services again in the future."

"All the work was done to the highest standards. The areas were left clean after the work was finished. The prices are inline with the , but the quality and professionalism are exceptional."

" was recommended to us by a friend when we were looking to replace the siding on our house. I had five different companies come out and bid on the job and finally decided to go with . I?m so happy that I did. It was a big job ($11,000) and I wanted to make sure it was done right. ...more ?s bid was one of the two lowest, which was great, but I also liked that he was knowledgeable about the work and didn?t try to sell me a lot of bells and whistles I didn?t need. They replaced all of the masonite siding on our home with

Pro siding and then painted the whole exterior of the house. The house looked beautiful afterward. Both the siding and the painting were done quickly and they started work just three days after I told

I wanted them to do the job. The guys on the crew were nice and did good work and we didn?t have any problems with them. They cleaned up well after the job was done.

was easy to get a hold of by phone and was present at the work site daily. I was so happy with their work that when we were getting ready to sell our house six months later I hired them again. I highly recommend them!"

"We'd lived in our house for over ten years, and sadly in addition to a lot of things that were structurally wrong with the house when we bought it (incorrectly installed cricket on chimney, insulation missing, flashing wrong, upstairs deck built all wrong), we hadn't properly maintained the house and it was really close to falling apart. The chimney ...more was pretty much gone, the masonite siding (common throughout our neighborhood) was cracked and peeling in a lot of places, and as

and Nic later pointed out (and showed me...they are extremely committed to educating home owners during all phases of building), we were maybe a year away from getting serious structural damage. As it was,

Property and Maintenance LLC (or

as they prefer to be called) arrived just in the nick of time. At the initial meeting when they came to look at the house to complete their estimate, these guys literally spent 90 minutes walking around the house, pointing out each problem area, telling me what needed to be done, and giving me a thorough education about what to expect from any estimates I would be getting, including common pitfalls that less-than-scrupulous builders might try to slip into estimates...warning signs (such as anyone telling you they can install siding over old siding, which believe it or not happens) and questions to ask in getting estimates. I could hardly believe that the owner and his partner personally spent so much time with me. They seemed (and later I was able to confirm that this was in fact the case) to ACTUALLY CARE about the work.

is passionate about remodeling and building. He loves his work. He actually loves it. He gets excited talking about it, and that enthusiasm is contagious - clearly, it's not just his profession, it's his hobby, and he will talk about every minute detail if you're interested. If you're not (my wife wasn't), he won't inflict a lot of information on you, but if you want to learn every detail about what he's proposing to do and why, he'll share that knowledge with you happily. I got a few estimates after I met with these guys, but to tell the truth I knew in my gut after that first meeting that

was the company I was looking for. Emotionally I knew it because of their deep knowledge and enthusiasm (and their complete lack of any kind of cheesy sales pressure or "upselling"...I never once got the feeling they were trying to "sell" me anything, and believe me that is rarely the case with companies I've hired in the past). But intellectually I understood that these were the right guys for the job because the

logic of what they were telling me made perfect sense. I could clearly see why the flashing was resulting in water being trapped and having nowhere to go but into the woodwork. I could understand that the way the trim around the windows was installed, the water would flow to the bottom piece and be trapped. Their explanation of why circulation in the roof was inadequate, resulting in horrible cooling bills, was just common sense. It horrified me that all these years these

defects in our house had been working against us. But I knew that these guys were right for the job, and after a few mediocre/bad estimates proved it I hired them for the job. Well, I won't belabor the process described above in the work that they did - I'll simply say that everything listed above was completed on time, on budget (and they refused to accept payment for overages, even when I offered to kick in a little extra - I am NOT kidding...wrap your mind around that), and everything was done beautifully. Perfectly. With attention to minute details. I work from home, so I was here the whole time, and while I certainly didn't stand outside and "supervise" or scrutinize them, I can tell you they were incredibly professional. The work didn't stop except for lunch. They didn't play blaring music, they didn't smoke (

tells me they only hire non-smokers), they didn't trash the yard, they cleaned up and secured the property everyday...in short, they were as good as you could possibly hope for. They were friendly, and clearly they shared

's enthusiasm for and commitment to quality work.

told me he'd been working with these same guys for years, and you could tell...they worked cohesively as a unit, and it showed in the completed work, which was uniformly excellent. There were a few times that

problems/damage surfaced that wasn't in the estimate (problems with the upper deck, and with the support under the siding between the garage doors). In those cases,

came to me immediately, explained the problem, offered his suggestion for addressing it and provided a revised estimate for that repair. Again, it was all very professional, and again I didn't feel like it was upselling in any way, because

could show me the damage, walk me through the implications, and make me understand what had caused it and the solution. In each case, the additional repairs made the house stronger and made me more confident that I had selected the right company. So yes, I can tell you that I was delighted with the final result. The house is beautiful, all the work was done with utmost professionalism and superior quality (I don't get the sense that any corners were cut at all...and I have gotten that feeling in the past with other contractors, especially the shady company that replaced our roof and patched parts of our chimney after a hail storm several years ago). I can attest to all that, but what I'd like to take a moment to mention all the extras they did, above and beyond what they contracted to do. Yeah, that's right...they delivered more than they promised. Countless little things (and some not so little things) that they just upped and did in the course of their other work. For instance, leaves. Our house is surrounded by trees, and the leaves are a never ending battle, a battle that we're constantly losing. Well, without being asked, because it would make it easier to make sure there were no nails and materials left behind under leaves for us to step on later, they raked the entire property, and removed about 18 huge and densely packed bags of leaves. The property, for the first time since we moved in, was leaf-free. You could walk around the house again. Can you imagine how much a landscaping company would charge for that? I can...I've tried to get the leaves removed before, raked them myself and hired people to do it. It's a pain, and it's expensive. But

didn't even include this service in their estimates, and provided this service just in the course of their work without being asked (though they did ask our permission just in case). They also cut down and removed three or four nuisance trees that were growing around the house...those kind of scrub trees that just will not die. Removed, and not a problem now. Again, free of charge. I mentioned that after they fixed the problem with the garage that the front door and door to the garage weren't sticking as much as they had been.

was puzzled by this because it shouldn't have had any impact on that. On looking at the doors he concluded that they hadn't been installed properly, and fixed them on the spot for free. Took him 15 minutes, and amazingly, the doors now open and shut effortlessly. I see I'm running out of space here, so I'll wrap it up. Why am I telling you all this? Because I want to emphasize the point, a point I have to illustrate rather than tell because otherwise you might not believe me -

is a truly great company. How many people these days deliver MORE than you pay for? How many companies actually CARE about the services they deliver? This experience has been fantastic, from start to finish. My wife and I feel like we're living in a brand-new house. It feels solid now, where for the last several years it had felt ramshackle, where we'd pretend not to see all the damage, and dread the rain because things might leak.

and Nic and their team gave us back our house. I can't recommend them highly enough. You can't go wrong with these guys. Their professionalism and generosity are incredible. (A word about the bathroom remodel...our bathroom was also in bad shape. The toilet wasn't flushing well anymore, the tub was hopelessly worn...it was the original tub, of some kind of vinyl/plastic material...very sad. We tried to just get the toilet replaced, but the idiots who we bought the house from had tiled right up to the toilet after it was installed, so we couldn't get it replaced simply.

looked at the problem, and made us a deal to remodel the entire bathroom at once that was too good to resist. The end result? Gorgeous, comfortable, and what's a big novelty for me, everything works, even the toilet! :) I know I've gushed a lot here, and I wish I could come up with something negative to say to appear more "balanced", but honestly, I have no complaints. Nothing but gratitude, and the resolve to hire

to do more work as soon as I can afford it."

"Southwest installed Hardy siding at our home approx. 5 years ago. When we got ready to replace windows we went back to them. In addition to windows they also did repairs to exterior including repacing rotted walls due to roof issues and painted some of the exterior."

"These guys were great. The sanding and staining of the cabinets was meticulous and matches beautifully. They corrected the door jam problem that two other handymen had been unable to and the work was flawlessly done. They were thrown a loop when the exisitng flooring was no longer made, but got around it by ordering unfinished and finishing it to match ...more the existing. (This was harder than it sounded because when the flooring arrived it was thicker than the existing and

had to plane it down board by board.) I was incredibly impressed with their professionalism, craftsmanship, and professionalism."

"He does beautiful work. He happened to have some real life issues that hit him hard, but he was always responsive. I was very pleased with his work, and will use him again."