Clever Painting
Painting in Barre, MA · ★ 5.0 Google rating
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- Address
- 449 S Barre Rd, Barre, MA 01005
- Phone
- (978) 387-1690
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About Clever Painting
Clever Painting is a Painting contractor based in Barre, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at 449 S Barre Rd, Barre, MA 01005. It has a Google rating of 5.0 out of 5. Its website is linked above. A listing here is not a license or insurance check, so verify both directly before hiring.
Service area
Based in Barre, Clever Painting is within a short drive of Oakham (4 mi), New Braintree (5 mi), Rutland (7 mi), Hardwick (7 mi), Petersham (7 mi) and Hubbardston (8 mi). Most Massachusetts painting contractors work a 25-mile radius, so homeowners in those towns can reasonably ask for a quote.
Hiring a Painting contractor in Barre
Massachusetts does not license painters as a standalone trade, and a repaint in Barre needs no building permit. A contractor doing paint within a remodel should hold Home Improvement Contractor (HIC) registration, and pre-1978 paint work requires EPA RRP certification, which covers most homes here. There is no townwide historic-district color rule, though the historic village center has documented older homes worth checking on before a major facade change. The dominant compliance item is lead-safe containment and debris handling on the old stock.
Barre sits in the lower central-Massachusetts pricing band, below Boston-metro rates. Interior whole-house repaints typically run $4,000–$9,500 by size and prep, and the older homes push the prep side because of plaster repair. Per-room interior work generally lands at $400–$800. Exterior repaints on a wood-sided single-family run roughly $6,000–$13,000, with large farmhouses and Victorian-era homes at the top. Pre-1978 homes carry lead-safe RRP containment costs, and full deleading by a licensed deleader is a separate, larger expense.
Massachusetts requires a written contract and a Home Improvement Contractor registration for most residential painting work; ask for the registration number and check it before paying a deposit.
More on permits, costs, rebates and common questions, plus every other painting contractor serving the town, on the Painting in Barre page.
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