26 honest answers, including the awkward ones.

For a deck, a fence or one room we often can — text two photos and you get a range the same day. For a whole house, half the price sits in the condition of the wood and the caulk, and that cannot be seen in a photo. A guessed number is not one you can plan around.

Yes. No fee, no travel charge, no mailing list. Dmitriy drives out, measures, sends the written price the next day, and if the answer is no you hear from us once and that is it.

About forty minutes. Be there for the first ten so you can point at what bothers you — after that he measures and photographs, and you can get on with your day.

Usually two to three days. Zone 1 is often next day; further south Dmitriy comes on the next day he is already working down there.

No. Nothing is due until the final walkthrough. A date is held by the calendar, not by your money.

Yes, as long as we can get to all sides of the house. Leave the gate unlocked, and the written estimate with photos comes to you by email the next day.

Yes, if you are in Zone 1 or 2. The minimum job is $150, and a single room is often a same-week slot between bigger houses.

Only if we open something up and find damage nobody could see — rot under the siding is the usual one. When that happens the work stops, you get a photo and a number in writing, and nothing continues until you say yes. We do not add extras quietly.

A $150 half-day handyman visit in Zone 1 or 2. Further out we bundle small work with a bigger job so the truck makes one trip.

At the final walkthrough, once you have looked at everything and we have touched up whatever you point at. Zelle, cash or check — we do not take cards yet.

Yes, paint and primer are in the rate. Window units, fence material beyond the standard cedar spec and rented staging are billed at supplier cost with receipts.

Not by cutting prep. If a cheaper bid skips the wash, the scraping or the primer, that is where the difference is — ask them to write out the prep and compare the two pages line by line.

Dmitriy comes for the estimate. For the job it is Dmitriy with his sons Maxim and Nazar. We do not subcontract.

Wash, scrape the loose paint, sand the edges, caulk the open joints, prime every bare spot, and mask the windows, lights and plants. It is most of the days on site and it is inside the rate, not a line you can decline.

Four to eight days for a typical exterior, three to six for a main floor inside. The estimate names the number and Olga calls you if weather moves it.

Yes. We work one floor at a time, cover the furniture and paper the floors, and re-mask every morning so you keep a room to live in.

You pick; we put large samples on the actual wall first, because a chip in the kitchen tells you nothing about how a colour reads outside. Once two coats are on, a change is a new job at the same rate.

Access to all sides, an outdoor tap, the gate unlocked and the dogs inside. Cars off the driveway on spray days. Everything else we bring.

The way it did before we arrived. Tape off, plants uncovered, debris hauled away, and Nazar walks it with you before the invoice.

You text the same number and we come back and fix it at our cost — three years on exterior paint, two inside. It covers peeling, blistering and flaking on surfaces we prepped. It does not cover rot that started behind the siding or a fence a car backed into.

Yes. It follows the work, not the owner. Tell the buyer to text the same number with the address.

Professional-grade products chosen for the surface and the exposure. If you want a specific brand, buy it and we will hang it — the labour warranty still stands, the product warranty is then the maker’s.

No. It is written on your estimate. Text the address and roughly when we painted it, and Dmitriy comes and looks.

Interiors, always. Exteriors need the siding dry and two dry days after the last coat, so we watch the forecast and book around it. That is why spring and summer fill up first.

No. The same starting rates apply in all 21 cities — no travel line, no fuel surcharge. The distance costs us time, not you money.

Ask anyway and expect a straight answer. We have gone further for a big exterior or a house we already painted once. For a half-day job an hour out, the honest answer is usually no.