Cumberland Foreside is a community that takes pride in how its homes look and that pride deserves a painting contractor who matches it. A contractor who was late, wouldn’t communicate well, left unfinished work and presented work that peels before the season changes. We started this company because that kind of contractor was far too common and far too easy to find. We use our own guys every time, and we’ve been doing it for years and developed the process to treat your home the way we know you think it should be treated. It’s what hiring the right people, with the right process, actually feels like.
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Cumberland Foreside’s waterfront character and established neighborhood streets bring a specific set of surface conditions that reward experience and punish shortcuts. Having been in the Maine residential market for 20 years, we’ve seen it all. The older Capes and colonials with layers of paint history, the newer construction where preparation was rushed, and every home sitting somewhere between those two. That experience isn’t just a number we put on a website, it’s the reason our process is sharper, our product knowledge is deeper, and our ability to anticipate problems before they become your problem is something no newer company can replicate. We’ve finished enough homes to know exactly where things go wrong and how to make sure they don’t. That unchanging standard is what keeps clients calling back and sending their neighbors our way.
Homes in this community carry real character and protecting that character while delivering a finish that lasts requires more than just picking up a brush. Homeowners come to By The Number Painting for four core services: interior painting, cabinet painting, drywall repair, and residential painting, and every single one is handled with the same preparation standards and finishing quality. We evaluate what every surface actually needs before we touch it because the right primer on the wrong surface is still the wrong call. The standard of cabinet painting is the same as is applied to a professionally sprayed, factory-smooth finish that is impossible to tell apart from brand new without the $15,000 replacement cost. Homeowners who’ve seen our cabinet work rarely talk about replacement again; the result makes that conversation unnecessary.
Waterfront proximity means moisture levels here work against your walls in ways that purely inland homes simply don’t experience at the same rate. Maine puts residential walls through conditions that homeowners in milder states simply don’t deal with. Year after year, the expansion and contraction caused by the temperature change from the freezing first month of the year to the humidity of summer pushes nail pops through finished surfaces and opens stress fractures around door frames and works hairline cracks open along ceiling joints. Every repair we take on starts with a question most contractors skip entirely: What actually caused this? This is not a maintenance failure it’s physics. A repair that doesn’t answer that question will be back on your list before the next season ends.
Cumberland Foreside homeowners have options, but what they’ve told us is harder to find is a contractor who actually does what they said they would. For Cumberland Foreside homeowners, there is no dearth of painting contractors to choose from. What is really uncommon is someone who arrives on time, is clear about their communication throughout the project, knows which products to use for the specific surface, has a trained crew that they employ, and backs the job when it is completed. This company has run entirely on referrals for twenty years and referrals only come from genuinely impressed homeowners. We are not the lowest bid in Cumberland Foreside, we are the contractor worth every dollar of the right one.
The homes in this community have been here a long time and will be here long after we finish, and we paint them accordingly. As we’ve learned in 20 years of working in the Maine residential market, homeowners remember not just the finish of the paint on their walls, but the entire experience. Whether the invoice matched the quote to the dollar. Whether the crew treated the property the way the owner would. If the painter who walked in the door treated their house with respect or like just one more job to complete. Those details have never been optional for us; they are the job. To make your home worth it, we use the best materials. We communicate at every stage, finish what we start, and never hand over a result we wouldn’t put our name on.
Every project we take on in this community comes with the same ironclad standards because no home here deserves anything less than our absolute best. No matter how large or small, or what neighborhood, we always strive for the same non-negotiable standards with each project.
We don’t consider a job done until you do, and we provide a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.
If you’ve been putting this off because a past contractor left you cautious, we understand and we’d welcome the chance to change that. By The Number Painting is now taking new residential projects in the Cumberland Foreside area, ranging from a single room to a complete interior refresh, a kitchen cabinet refresh or walls that need to be properly repaired before anything else. Contact us today for your free estimate. Your home has waited long enough.