After reading Jeff's review, I felt compelled to also review Eric's Painting. I, too, dislike writing negative reviews, and in fact, I just signed up for yelp to review this horrendous company.
We also purchased a Living Social voucher for Eric's, and though we contacted them for a refund, they have not yet refunded our voucher.
We asked Eric to paint ONE coat in our living room, and two coats of paint in our bedroom. The voucher was for two rooms, two coats of paint, for rooms of a certain dimension. Since our bedroom was slightly larger than what the voucher covered, we figured that we may have to pay a bit more for the painting in that room. Of course, we also figured that since Eric (it was Eric himself who painted) only needed to add one coat of paint to one of the rooms, that his rate for the second room would not be too expensive. He charged a bit more than we had wanted, but we thought that it was not too unreasonable.
As he was leaving, he explained that the paint in the bedroom was still wet, so that any imperfections would look normal once dry. Less than an hour after he left, I noticed several places where I could see the previous color of the wall (a light green). Thus, I sent Eric a text message with pictures of these areas. I asked him to come back and put on a second coat of paint. He said that he was busy for the rest of the day, but would call back to reschedule a time when he was free.
Later that day, he sent me a text message saying that he was booked for the week, but could come back between the following week from 1-2pm. When he finally came, he showed up at 11am. As we were not prepared for him to come then, my husband asked him to come back a little later ( I was not present during this conversation, so my husband was unaware that Eric had sent me a text message confirming the aforementioned times). Eric told him that he couldn't, and that he had confirmed painting from 11-12. He told us to reschedule- My husband thought that I perhaps had mistaken the time, so agreed to reschedule- and since then (June 20th), we have called several times, sent text messages and emailed, but have not received a response from anyone at Eric's Painting.
If you do decide to hire Eric's Painting, I would heed all of Jeff's warnings. Unfortunately, my experience with Eric's Painting leads me to strongly recommend that you do NOT use Eric's painting. read more