Asked before every job.

We do not publish prices, because a number quoted without seeing your walls is a guess. What decides the cost is ceiling height, how much trim you have, and the condition of the substrate, none of which can be judged from square footage. The walkthrough is free, takes about 45 minutes, and ends with a fixed written quote.

Yes. The walkthrough takes 45 to 60 minutes, costs nothing, and carries no obligation. You receive a written finish specification within 48 hours that names every surface, its coat count, its primer decision and its sheen. We would rather you compared that document against other quotes than compared bottom-line numbers, because three painting quotes are usually three different scopes.

The Greater Toronto Area, the City of Toronto including Etobicoke, North York and Scarborough, plus Peel, York, Durham and Halton regions. That covers Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill, Oakville, Burlington, Milton, Ajax, Pickering, Whitby, Oshawa, Newmarket and Aurora. If you are inside the GTA, we quote it.

A single room is one working day. A three-bedroom home with walls, ceilings and trim is three to five days with a crew of two to three. A larger home runs five to eight. Cabinets take five to seven days with the doors sprayed off-site, and exteriors run four to seven days weather permitting. Occupied homes take 15% to 25% longer than empty ones because we stage room by room so you always have somewhere to live.

No. Most of our interior work happens in occupied homes. We stage the job so bedrooms are finished and back in use before we move into living areas, and we specify low- or zero-VOC products so a painted room is re-occupiable the same evening. Tell us at the walkthrough if anyone in the house is pregnant, asthmatic or chemically sensitive and we will schedule around sleeping areas and specify a zero-VOC product with zero-VOC colourant.

Premium lines from the major manufacturers, selected per surface rather than per job, a washable matte on walls, a waterborne alkyd on trim, a dead-flat on ceilings, a cabinet-grade urethane or waterborne alkyd on cabinetry, and vapour-permeable coatings on masonry. The specification names the exact product line and sheen for each surface so you know what you are buying, and we leave you the product record for future touch-ups.

Two full coats on essentially every surface. One coat over a same-colour wall can look acceptable on the day and then flash unevenly within a month as the sheen settles. Genuine exceptions are rare, a brand-new factory-primed surface in a same-family colour can sometimes take one. Some situations need three, most often a dark-to-light change. Any quote advertising "one coat coverage" as standard is quoting a thinner job rather than a better paint.

A deposit of 10% to 30% depending on job size, with progress payments on longer projects and the final payment due after you have walked the job with us and signed off the punch list. We do not ask for payment in full up front, and you should be cautious of anyone who does, the final payment is your only real leverage to get the last details finished properly.

Interiors, yes, all year, and winter is genuinely a good time to book them, since crews are less stretched than in summer. Exteriors are seasonal in Ontario: the reliable window runs from late May to mid-September, with April, May and October workable but weather-dependent. The constraint is the overnight low rather than the daytime high, because acrylic exterior paint needs sustained temperatures above about 10 °C to form a proper film.

Tell us during the punch-list walkthrough, which is exactly what it is for. We walk the job together with a raking light and anything you flag gets addressed before sign-off. If something surfaces after we leave, call us so we can review it with you.