From: Marcia
Subject: [workmom] Exterior Painters Compiled 
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:23:34 -0400 

After about 10 replies...
 
9 Women recommend Rutgers.
1 for Jerzy Painting in Short Hills.  Phone is 973-379-5366.

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One thing to add about Jerzy Painting.  We decided not to use them after
they came to give us an estimate.  Their rep wasn't very friendly, but
he floored us when we took him into our new kitchen, complete with
beautiful natural wood shaker maple cabinets.  He looked at them and
asked what color we wanted them painted!

Note: the painter we ended up using (King Painting in Pompton Plains) I
wouldn't recommend because the young guys who worked for him were slobs
and weren't very thorough.  I caught them washing off their paint
brushes in my new bathroom sink, scraping the blobs of dried paint off
the brushes by rubbing them under the drain stopper and walking across
my expensive oriental rug with paint on their shoes.  However, the boss
was the only painter who had a clue how to reproduce the unusual stucco
in our first floor rooms (basically you put plastery stuff on the walls
in blobs, then sand it down to almost flat to create texture), and he
was very good at matching colors so we could get away with painting only
the specific walls that were changed during our renovations. So the boss
was good, but his crew was lousy.  If you have special stucco needs like
that, maybe they would be still be useful if you keep a close eye on
them.