Blue Sky Painting

BEWARE: We hired Dave and John VanPatten from Blue Sky Painting in the spring of 2022 to do quite a bit of carpentry work and painting in my living room, family room, and bathroom. They dragged the project out for the whole summer, did about 60% of the work, and then totally bailed after we paid him for a majority of the project in September! They stopped answering our calls and text, and in November, we ultimately had to hire someone else to fix all the shotty work and paint job and finish the project. Also, we were constantly asked for money before our agreed-upon installment schedule. On top of that, my husband and I also noticed things missing from our garage, like two Dewalt rechargeable batteries and a hand drill! The financial loss that we incurred by initially hiring them has been enormous. I sincerely hope that other people don’t have the same experience as we did, but I just felt I needed to give anyone considering hiring them a heads-up.

Hired Blue Sky Painting on 1/31 to paint the interior of my home. They began very quickly, even working through a blizzard! Just just wrapped up the job and I couldn't be more impressed. The workmanship and professionalism from Dave and his crew were top notch. Will definitely use again for future projects. Highly recommend.

Our company has been doing business for the last several years with Blue Sky Painting. They have done outstanding, quality work and we were very pleased with the outcome for our events at Averill Elementary and Cinderella's Closet.

I hired Blue Sky for a large project including plaster repair of a ceiling, wall paper removal and plaster repair, painting a great room ceiling, ceiling and walls of two bedrooms, storage room, bathroom, dressing room and closet, three hallways and two stairwells. There was a phase one and two. Phase one was the great room ceiling plaster repair and painting and hall ceiling wall paper removal, plaster and paint. This first phase was completed when we were out of town. When we returned my baby grand piano had water marks where the painters had left cold drinks and did not protect the surface. The plaster work was not done and we waited a month until the second phase was started to complete this first job. Our home was in disarray having moved the majority of the items save a sofa and the grand piano into another room. With the second phase Dave had agreed to work room by room when he bid because there was no place to store all the contents. That did not occur. Richard, the crew leader wanted to do all the plaster work first, then paint all the ceilings and then proceed. He planned to paint all the closets in one day but allocated only one person. We emptied the closets. Only one was completed. Because of his industrial approach we were moving items from room to room to try and accomodate. Dave was no help, indeed, he told us "not to upset his workers." Our home has natural trim, new carpeting and nice furnishings. At the end of this project paint was on the slate floor, on the new carpeting (only 2 months old) , on the carpeting only a year old, on the top of a new cherry desk and on the legs of the cherry desk. When I cleaned the great room I found plaster and ceiling shards in the sofa that remained in the room. It is clear that they do not respect possessions and are only focused on doing the job as quickly as possible. There are many areas that are not done well. I would not recommend them for interior work unless you bid a room at a time. I have contacted the owner and he did call to say he and Richard would be out to examine the damage but he has not called or scheduled that second visit and the problems remain. His cost was the same as other painters so there is no financial incentive to use his company. I chose him because we had an agreement on how to proceed which he did not maintain.