7 Best Painters Near Castle Hayne, NC Ranked by Chooz Score

At the time we analyzed Anderson Painting, the company held over 250 Google reviews with a 4.8-star rating, along with 96% recommended on Facebook across over 20 reviews and 3.9 stars on Yelp across 10 reviews. The Google profile alone carries over 250 ratings, a high review count for a regional painting company.

The company earned a Chooz Score of 89.7%. Anderson Painting is family owned and operated, has served the Raleigh area and the greater Triangle for nearly two decades, and is registered in North Carolina as Business Entity No. 1088021. Its crews are trained for EPA lead-safe work on older homes, and the company handles carpentry, siding, and drywall repair alongside interior and exterior painting.

Communication & Responsiveness

If you're a first-time customer who wants guidance through the painting process, JBG Services delivers the kind of attentive service that puts minds at ease. The owners respond to over 90% of Google reviews with personalized replies that reference specific project details and team members by name—not generic thank-yous (Source: Chooz Score - Review Response Rate 3.0/3.0 and Review Response Quality 3.4/3.5). This carries through to the actual work:

At the time of our analysis, Freedom Painting carried a Chooz Score of 86.4%. The family-owned company has been in business for about two years, has been Accredited with the Better Business Bureau since 2025, and is registered under NC Business Entity No. 2701869. It is owned and operated by Byron and Dawn Bailey and serves Wilmington along with Leland, Hampstead, and the nearby coastal communities.

Across its review profiles, the company held over 60 Google reviews with a 5.0-star rating, along with 5.0-star ratings on Yelp and Angi and 100% recommended on Facebook across 6 reviews. The ratings read uniformly across every platform where the company has reviews, though the counts outside Google are small.

At the time we analyzed CertaPro Painters of Wilmington, NC, the company held over 100 Google reviews with a 4.9-star rating, along with 100% recommended on Facebook across six reviews and 1.6 stars on Yelp across seven reviews. The Google rating sits near the top of the scale across a triple-digit review count, while the low Yelp figure comes from only a handful of ratings.

The company earned a Chooz Score of 85.6%. It is an independently woman-owned and operated CertaPro location, led by owner Barbie Dorsey since 2019, and it paints homes and businesses across Wilmington and the Cape Fear coast, from Wrightsville Beach to Leland, Southport, and Ocean Isle Beach.

At the time of our analysis, R3 Painting carried a Chooz Score of 85.5%. The company has operated in the Hampstead area since 2016 and is registered as an active North Carolina business entity. It is locally owned and run by owner Scott Reitan, and its service area covers Hampstead, Wilmington, Jacksonville, and the surrounding coastal communities.

Across its review profiles, the company held a 5.0-star rating across over 40 Google reviews, along with 3.5 stars on Yelp from just two reviews. The Google rating is unusually clean at this volume, and the thin Yelp profile is the one place the picture is less uniform.