The last time we conducted our Chooz Score analysis, Roca's Painters LLC had over 380 Google reviews with a 4.9-star rating. This company earned a Chooz Score of 91.1% and has built a reputation that extends well beyond Google:
"Jose and his team of painters are outstanding. They are excellent painters, are extremely polite and professional, are respectful of our property and our preferences. We can give them nothing but a glowing recommendation without reservation." - Bob V., Google Review
If you're looking for a painting contractor you can call for years to come, this company has built serious loyalty. High marks on the Chooz Score's customer retention indicators: multiple reviewers mention returning for 2nd, 3rd, and even multi-home projects:
"This is the third time we have used Roca's. This time was my daughter's house. Always a pleasure. From the initial estimate to the completion of the project I could not be happier." - Monica L., Google Review
Customers consistently mention the same thing: Roca's crews leave spaces cleaner than they found them. The meticulous prep work comes up repeatedly in reviews:
"They did all the prep work of taking off the light switch & electrical covers instead of painting around them. They took down the blinds so that they could paint the inside of the windows. They even pulled out the Refrigerator and painted the walls behind it so that the space is cohesive!" - Carol S., Google Review
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Get StartedFREE SERVICEOver 650 five-star reviews is a lot to keep clean, and Zarazua hasn't slipped. The last time we conducted our Chooz Score analysis, the company held over 650 Google reviews with a 5.0-star rating, with fresh five-star reviews still landing most weeks. That kind of number is hard to fake and harder to sustain.
The picture holds up wherever you look. Zarazua is 96% recommended on Facebook and carries 4.5 stars on Yelp across over 40 reviews, and it's Accredited with the Better Business Bureau since 2017.
Family-owned and women-owned, with nearly two decades in business and registered in North Carolina as NC Business Entity No. 1056288, Zarazua earned a Chooz Score of 91.6%. The Chooz Score's cross-platform analysis shows steady ratings from one review site to the next, not a single strong platform propping up the rest.
"From start to finish, the experience was exceptional! The owner's kindness, honesty, and genuine care for customers is rare to find these days." - Rachel G., Google Review
Read enough of these reviews and a pattern jumps out. People don't use Zarazua once. They hire them, then call again a year or a decade later.
Reviewers describe coming back for a fourth project across 15 years, for a second whole-home job, for trim and decks after an earlier interior. Floyd Wiseman, Wei You, and Julia Jessop all mention second and third rounds of work, and Sam Rodgers sums the whole thing up in five words, calling Zarazua the go-to for any painting the house needs.
What's telling is how ordinary they make it sound. A re-caulk here, a porch there, another room next spring. That's what loyalty looks like when it's earned slowly.
"This is the 4th time in the past 15 years or so that Zarazua has done some painting for me. This time was to re-caulk and paint the interior and exterior of our screened porch. Juan and his team are awesome." - Viki P., Google Review
Osiris supervising a bedroom-and-exterior job. Alexander managing a full renovation. Erick out doing estimates, Juan Ramon running interiors, Cesar leading an install crew. Read across Zarazua's reviews and the same first names keep surfacing, which is exactly what you'd expect from a company that keeps its crews in-house instead of rotating subcontractors. Customers name them, thank them, and request them by name on the next project.
The Chooz Score's in-house crews component reflects the same thing, with recurring crew names appearing across review after review rather than a churn of unfamiliar faces. It shows in the detail people bother to include. One homeowner credited Alexander and a crew led by Cesar with a whole-home transformation, popcorn ceilings taken down to smooth white, a walk-in shower built into the master suite, and new engineered flooring run through the house.
"Alexander brings creativity and passion as a project manager. He helped us envision what we could do with our project and his implementation team - lead by Cesar - made it a reality with expert craftsmanship and attention to detail. They transformed our popcorn ceilings into smooth white..." - Joseph D., Google Review
With this many happy customers, the rare misses stand out, and they cluster around bigger exterior and staining jobs. A few reviewers felt a large exterior project didn't match the precision Zarazua shows elsewhere, and at least one of those reviews drew only a brief, general reply rather than a real fix. It's a fair thing to raise before you sign. Ask them directly: "For an exterior or staining job my size, which crew and supervisor will run it, what's the prep and product plan, and how does the satisfaction guarantee work if the finish doesn't hold up?"
"Unfortunately that was not our experience, which I why I'm writing this as a cautionary review to make sure future potential clients know they may, or may not, receive a positive set of services." - Michael B., Google Review
96% Recommended (26 Reviews)
What sets Matrix Painting apart starts with a number most contractors can't claim. At the time of our last Chooz Score analysis, the company held a perfect 5.0-star rating across over 130 Google reviews, and it wasn't coasting on old goodwill. New five-star reviews kept landing month after month. Pair that with 100% recommended on Facebook and accreditation with the Better Business Bureau since 2015, and the reputation holds up on every platform we checked. Matrix has been in business since 2008, registered with the North Carolina Secretary of State, and it earned a Chooz Score of 89.6%. That's the kind of cross-platform consistency the Chooz Score is built to catch: the same five-star story, told the same way, in one place after another.
"I called SO MANY COMPANIES for quotes and testimonials... let me save you the work. Hire Matrix!" - Sarah G., Google Review
Five painters. One morning. Each already knowing the job. That's how Kathy Underdown described her first day with Matrix, and it captures something the reviews return to constantly: the same crew coming back each morning, working in sync, with people who specialize. Tom Hurley noticed his crew carried individuals dedicated to prep, drywall patching, trim, and the main painting, the sort of division of labor you only get from a team that works together regularly instead of a rotating cast of subcontractors. Owner Ryan Critoria runs it hands-on, walking each property himself before pricing and staying in touch while the work is underway. The Chooz Score's in-house crews component keys on this exact pattern, the same faces showing up project after project. Read enough of these reviews and you notice how often people simply stop shopping around.
"The same crew came everyday and worked together seamlessly, came in first morning and each of five immediately started on preassigned tasks. They finished the interior walls and baseboards of our entire house in 3 days and did an excellent job. I have found my permanent painting company." - Kathy U., Google Review
Homeowners keep reaching for bigger words than a paint job seems to call for. Best I've ever had. Transforming. Flawless. What earns that reaction is usually the work that happens before the paint. Jeff Newton said it plainly: carpentry expertise is what separates Matrix from other painters. Read the reviews and you see why. Rotten columns, masonite siding, and damaged trim get repaired before a brush comes out, while inside, popcorn ceilings come down and drywall gets made right. The prep is relentless, pressure washing, scraping, sanding, caulking, floors and furniture covered, the site cleaned up at the end of every single day. It holds up on the hard jobs, too. Kim Darroch hired Matrix for a historic home that grew into rescreening a back porch, replacing porch stairs, and building new basement doors, and still called Ryan very knowledgeable about historic homes. None of it reads like a company that just rolls paint.
"They repaired and evened out all the rough edges and casual construction blemishes hidden underneath that popcorn coating... The results were transforming and literally brought our ceiling from the 1970s to the 21st century." - George H., Google Review
100% Recommended (9 Reviews)
One customer has hired Socaz for interior and exterior work across more than fifteen years, and she's far from the exception. Read through the reviews and the pattern is hard to miss. People bring Socaz back for a second project, then a third, then a job at a different property. John Adams calls his most recent job his third great experience with the company, Andrew Graves points to multiple contracts fulfilled over time, and con ure lists an exterior, a few interior rooms, and a deck all handled over the years.
High marks on the Chooz Score's customer retention indicators back this up, with roughly one in six reviewers signaling a return visit or a long-running relationship. When people keep calling the same painter for well over a decade, that says more than any single five-star rating can.
"The crew at Socaz Painting shows up on time, does extremely good work, and then leaves the place clean! We've used them for interior and exterior painting - many projects over 15 years - and highly recommend." - Michelle M., Google Review
Registered as a North Carolina corporation back in 2001. Still painting the Triangle more than twenty years later. That kind of staying power tends to show up in the numbers, and Socaz's hold up. The last time we conducted our Chooz Score analysis, the company carried over 270 Google reviews with a 4.9-star rating and had earned a Chooz Score of 89.9%.
It is Accredited with the Better Business Bureau since 2004, and its North Carolina business registration has stayed active and current the whole way. That's more than two decades of one company answering the same phone in the same market. Different sources, same story.
"STOP LOOKING FOR YOUR PAINTER! You found them!! We have had the most incredible experience with SOCAZ. What a refreshing relief to have found a company that does EVERYTHING they say they will do, FAR BEYOND the quality they promise." - Karen W., Google Review
Noe, Chris, Luis, Angel, Ken, Thomas. Reviewers call Socaz's painters out by name so often you start to recognize the roster. That's the tell of an in-house team rather than a rotating cast of subcontractors, and the Chooz Score's in-house crews component picks up on it directly, with the same names recurring project after project. Customers ask for specific crew leads on return visits, and the office tends to accommodate.
Take Jimmy Robinson's job. Twenty-foot ceilings across the foyer and family room, plus a dining room, master bath, and three long hallways. Luis led the crew with Angel, Jayleon, and Darius, Noe ran the final walkthrough and caught a couple of spots Jimmy had missed, and a color consultant named Thomas helped his wife settle the palette. Jimmy closed by saying he'd ask for the same group on his next project.
"I had a large interior painting project that included foyer, family room (both with 20 foot ceilings), dining room, master bath, and three long hallways... The team, Luis (team lead), Angel, Jayleon and Darius, got things going fast... This is a great group to work with and I will ask for them again on my next project, later this year." - Jimmy R., Google Review
100% Recommended (3 Reviews)
What sets CPM Painting apart is what happens before the first coat goes on. Most painters will paint over trouble. Kevin Cook's crews stop and fix it first. Review after review describes extensive wood rot, failing masonite siding, and carpenter-bee damage that CPM tore out and rebuilt, swapping bad trim and window sills for PVC and old siding for Hardie plank before a brush ever touched the house.
The finish work earns the same care. Customers describe primer under two coats of high-end paint, meticulous prep, and a walkthrough where Kevin catches flaws before they do. One homeowner said the result looked better than it did when new, and that phrasing shows up here more than once.
"We had extensive wood rot and siding issues and these guys handled it all! They replaced all the bad wood trim and window sills with PVC to end that issue and replaced much of the old masonite siding with Hardie plank. They even rebuilt our deck!" - Haywood P., Google Review
Kevin Cook, the owner, doesn't run this company from a desk. He writes the estimates himself, breaks every line item down so a homeowner can see where the money goes, and then shows up while the work is underway. Customers describe him stopping by most mornings to check progress, and doing a final walkthrough where he's a tougher critic of the crew's work than they are.
That hands-on habit carries into how he handles feedback. The Chooz Score's owner engagement indicators are strong here, reflecting how often Kevin is named directly in reviews and how consistently he answers them himself. His name isn't buried in the fine print. It's usually the first word.
"Kevin, the owner, stopped by every morning to check on things and make sure we were happy." - Diane, Google Review
In business since 2000. Twenty-five years, one phone number. That kind of tenure is rare among painting contractors, and it's why so many CPM jobs start with a neighbor's recommendation or a truck spotted around town.
The numbers hold up across the board. The last time we conducted our Chooz Score analysis, CPM carried a perfect 5.0-star rating that stayed consistent across Google, Yelp, and the Better Business Bureau, with over 70 Google reviews behind it. The Chooz Score's cross-platform analysis shows that consistency plainly. CPM is Accredited with the Better Business Bureau and has been named a Nextdoor Neighborhood Favorite across 17 Raleigh-area neighborhoods.
Add a North Carolina Business Entity No. 2295203 in active standing and more than two decades in business, and the picture is a company that earned its standing the slow way. It all adds up to a Chooz Score of 89.8%.
"We discovered CPM after noticing that many houses in our neighborhood had been beautifully painted by Kevin's team." - Erika C., Google Review
Nearly every CPM review raves about the finished product, but one recent customer felt the communication along the way could've been smoother, pointing to slow responses on scheduling and some uncertainty about the number of coats and the final cost. It's the rare exception in an otherwise glowing record, and the owner did reply to address it. Even so, it's worth locking the plan down up front. Ask them directly: "Who is my point of contact once the job starts, and how will you keep me updated on the schedule, the number of coats, and any change in cost?"
"Scheduling was difficult. I had to reach out multiple times, sometimes waiting weeks for a response, and even had to follow up the night before to confirm arrival time." - Veronika M., Google Review
100% Recommended (2 Reviews)
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