In a lakefront house in the Upstate, every wall, ceiling, beam and brick surface went from knotty pine to white. That is how Jason Reyes’s Greenville painting company describes the job on its website, and the photos bear it out: a vaulted great room with exposed beams, a two-story brick wall coated top to bottom, a loft overlook with rails and a beamed ceiling, a bathroom with paneling and a vanity.
One room went the other way. The powder room was painted a deep navy, full coverage over the paneling, cabinets and casework included.
The job is a fair sample of how the company works. Reyes’s crew in Greenville takes on houses where the painting is only part of the work, and much of the rest falls to the same people.
The company says it is a licensed South Carolina contractor, holding license RBS.66933, and it sells itself on scope. According to its website, one crew and one point of contact handle painting, drywall, flooring and carpentry, so a homeowner does not have to bring in a separate drywall contractor before the painters can start. The crew works Greenville, Greer, Simpsonville, Mauldin, Taylors, Travelers Rest, Easley and Spartanburg, and the business opens at 7 a.m., Monday through Saturday.
The work the company points to most often is municipal. Its website says the City of Greenville has hired the company directly for painting, drywall and flooring at city facilities. In practice, the photos show, that has meant epoxy flake floors in public park restrooms and the corridors that connect them.
The company describes the process as grinding the concrete, patching it, broadcasting flake across the full surface and sealing it with a clear coat. Its photos show the coating running under toilet partitions and around floor drains, tight to the wall panels, finished with a dark cove base. A floor like that has to hold up to constant foot traffic and wet cleaning. According to the website, municipal work comes with specs and inspections, and the crew holds a city restroom and a customer’s living room to the same standard.
The crew also handles ongoing facility maintenance for commercial and municipal clients, the website says, scheduled around a business’s operating hours.
On exteriors, the company’s stated method is scrape, sand, prime, then the finish coat. Rotted boards are replaced before they are painted, not covered over. One porch restoration in its gallery shows rotted boards swapped out, then the porch sanded and stained in the same visit. Deck work can mean resurfacing boards, rails and posts, and rebuilding steps and treads, before any stain goes on.
Some of the work is unusual for a painter. One customer, Jeffrey M., wrote in a review that the crew smoothed out lumpy shingles and coated his 20-year-old roof dark gray with acrylic roof paint. The company’s website describes roof coating as a lower-cost alternative to a tear-off and says whether it makes sense depends on the roof’s condition, which the crew judges in person.
Inside, the company says, it protects furniture, controls dust and paints the whole room: ceilings, trim, doors and cabinets along with the walls. When a section needs patching, the crew matches the existing color so the repair does not stand out against the rooms left untouched.
One whole-home job shows how those pieces fit together. Danette J. wrote in a review that the crew painted the interior of her 4,000-square-foot home, every ceiling included. Reyes brought a Sherwin-Williams representative to the house to help the family settle on colors. Crown molding was added at the last minute. Her kitchen cabinets were refinished, and she wrote that they came out looking better than when they were new. The crew painted her deck, too.
The company also does what it calls make-ready work: full interior repaints on rentals and resales, turned around quickly and handed off clean. Its gallery has a section for those jobs, with empty living rooms, kitchens and two-story stairwells painted wall to wall.
Many of the gallery’s captions are about edges. They point to a clean ceiling line from one corner to the other, a chair rail running straight the length of a hall, and a sprayed door and jamb, shot up close, with no brush marks.