CertaPro Painters

Services

The Largest Painting Company in North America

CertaPro has 370+ franchise locations and over 400,000 completed projects since 1992. In an industry where “painting company” often means one guy, a van, and maybe a helper, CertaPro brought franchise-level project management to residential and commercial painting.

Residential Painting

Interior: walls, ceilings, trim, molding, cabinet refinishing, accent walls, wallpaper removal. Exterior: siding, trim, shutters, doors, decks, fences, garage floors. Their estimators assess surface condition, prep requirements, and paint quality options. The written proposal breaks down costs by room or area so you can phase the work if budget is tight.

Why Prep Matters More Than Paint

Professional painters will tell you that preparation determines 80% of a paint job’s longevity. CertaPro’s prep standards include power washing exteriors, scraping and sanding loose paint, caulking, priming bare wood and stains, patching drywall imperfections, and protecting floors, furniture, and landscaping with premium masking materials (not newspaper and dollar-store tape). It’s the unglamorous part that separates a job that looks great for two years from one that lasts ten.

Project Management

Every job follows a structured process: free estimate, pre-project walkthrough with the crew leader (scope review, furniture logistics, color confirmation), daily check-ins from a dedicated project manager, quality inspections, and a final walkthrough before sign-off. This level of management is rare in residential painting and catches the small misses — a missed edge, a drip on trim — before the crew leaves.

Commercial Division

Offices, retail, restaurants, HOAs, multi-family, institutional buildings. They schedule around business hours — evenings, weekends, overnight — to minimize disruption. For property managers, they offer volume pricing and turnover painting programs that get units repainted to move-in condition within 24–48 hours of vacancy.

The Price Question

CertaPro isn’t cheap. The franchise model, project management overhead, and prep standards all cost more than the guy who quotes you half the price on Nextdoor. The question is whether that premium is worth it to you. If you’ve been burned by a cheap paint job before — sloppy edges, paint on your hardwood, a crew that disappeared mid-project — CertaPro’s systematic approach prevents those problems. If you have a trusted independent painter who does excellent work, you probably don’t need CertaPro.