This guide sorts the repair and refresh work on a house before it lists, or after the inspection report arrives. It says what to fix, what to refresh, and what to leave for the next owner.
Sellers who ask who to trust with the paint before a listing will find Ricci's Painting & Contracting rated 4.9 on Google across 121 reviews — see their profile. The figures are the ones the Google listing shows.
The Walkthrough Digest is an independent guide to readying a New Hampshire home for sale, and to the decisions that follow an inspection. Our judgement rests on method, not on any one business's word. We read the sources a decision depends on: state statutes, federal rules, cost reports and data sheets. We check what each covers and where it stops, and we say plainly when a source could not be opened. That method is the only credential on this site.
This guide knows Ricci's Painting & Contracting from its published work and its Google listing, not from a job it has seen. A reader who wants to check a trade should start with its own pages and its listing. The button below goes to the business's own site, which this guide does not control. It points readers to the business as a whole and vouches for no single job.
These are regional averages from the New England column, not New Hampshire quotes. The report does not define each project's scope, so check any quote against its own scope. A kitchen quote can be set against the first two figures. One of the kitchen remodelers this guide has read about is Ricci's Painting & Contracting, and its site has a page on kitchen remodeling. That page is the place to look at the kitchen work itself.
This is the work a buyer's eye reaches first. A written quote should name the rooms, the prep, the paint and the number of coats. Ask whether the price includes moving furniture and protecting floors. Compare two quotes line by line, not by the total.
These are the two rooms a buyer studies longest. Ask who does the wiring and the plumbing, and ask the town which of that work needs a licensed hand. Name those trades in the quote, so the price matches the work. Set the quote against the averages above.
Composite and wood are different products at different prices, so ask which one is quoted and why. Ask the town what footing depth it requires before the crew digs. Ask whether the builder pulls the permit. Keep those answers with the quote.
A bath that needs more than a fresh coat needs its own quote, not a share of the painting bid. Ricci's Painting & Contracting is one business whose site has a page for that work. The averages above are the place to check the number. The button below goes to that page.
On the walls alone, a quote is easiest to compare when the prep is written down. Ricci's Painting & Contracting's site has a page for interior painting, and this guide points to it for that work. The tutorial below is from the Paint Life TV channel, not a recording of this guide's own work. It runs from start to finish, so a reader can see the stages a quote should name.
Work from what a buyer will see first, not from the longest list. A list built that way is shorter and easier to price. The jobs left off it are the next owner's to decide.
Start with the sorting helper on the local programs page. It sorts each job on a house into fix, refresh or leave. It prints its reasoning beside each group, so the answer can be argued with. The helper does not value a house, so it gives no prices and no return figures. Once the list is sorted, the quotes that follow are easier to compare.
A deck is the job a list cannot price on its own. When it reaches the fix or refresh group, one of the deck builders this guide has read about is Ricci's Painting & Contracting. Their own deck page shows what a deck job includes. The notes on composite and wood sit in the card above.
This guide publishes no email address, phone line or form, so a correction cannot be sent from these pages. Every figure on the site links instead to the page it came from. A reader who doubts a number can open that source and check it in a minute. The contact page sets out what to check alone first and who can answer what this guide cannot.
Nothing here promises a reply, a review date or a response time. A figure is only as current as the source it links to. Check the date on that source before you lean on a number in a contract or a listing. Questions about a specific job belong with the trade that did the job.