Any painter can make your house look great the week they finish. Five years later is the real test, and that comes down to who did the work and how much they cared while they were doing it.
Nice painters. Nice paint job.
Twice nationally awarded · 400+ foothill homes
You got here about thirty seconds ago, so there's no reason to take our word for any of this yet.
Before you call anyone
Who is actually going to show up at my house? Is the price fair? How much money do I hand a stranger up front, and what happens if I see something I don’t like halfway through the job? Here's where we answer all of that, in writing.
The painters on your project work for Michael Hines Painting. We don’t sell the job and then find a subcontractor to do it. An experienced crew leader is on site each day, and the same company you hired is responsible for the work from start to finish.
See who shows upYou shouldn’t need three bids to figure out whether a price is fair. Ours are published for anyone to read before we ever meet, and every proposal you get from us is a fixed price in writing.
Read our pricing guidesHanding a big deposit to someone you just met should feel uncomfortable, so we don’t ask for one. We’re a family business. Projects here start with 10% or $1,000, whichever is less, which is the most California allows anyone to ask for. You pay the rest as the work gets done.
Book your estimateIf something catches your eye mid-job, you shouldn’t have to work up the nerve to say something. Ask on day two, ask on day six, whenever you notice it. The job isn’t finished until you and your crew leader have walked the whole thing together.
How that works on siteThe part you never see
You've probably watched a paint job give out years before it should have, peeling on the sunny wall while the shady side still looks fine, and nobody wants to pay for that twice. A name you recognize on the can is no promise on its own. Every big manufacturer makes several different lines, and which one goes on your house changes how long it holds up.
We put premium coatings on every project. But good paint can still only do so much when the prep underneath it gets rushed.
Most of how a paint job ages is settled before the first coat, during the washing, sanding, priming, masking and little repairs nobody sees. All of that ends up hidden under the finish, which is exactly why it's easy to skip and tempting to hurry. On your house we give it the time it takes.
Your project is assigned to a Michael Hines Painting crew, not a rotating collection of whoever is available that morning. Every painter on your project is our employee, and an experienced crew leader stays with the job from beginning to end.
They know what you asked for, what has already been done, and what comes next. They’re also the person you talk to each day. You never have to find out who’s in charge.
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Fewer than 1%
of completed projects have required a callback for touch-up work after the final walkthrough.
Awards do not paint houses. People do.
Still, winning that kind of recognition year after year tells you what the people doing the work are held to. It's the same bar we work to on every home we paint in Diamond Springs.
Your kitchen table, tonight
It's nine at night, and three bids are spread across your kitchen table: seven, eleven and sixteen thousand dollars. Now you have to figure out why.
The gap is rarely about the paint itself. It's usually buried in the details one bid spells out and another leaves vague: how much sanding, patching, and repair happens before anyone opens a can, which surfaces are actually included, how many coats go on, and whether the crew is part of the company team or random subcontractors they've found to work that week.
None of that shows up while you're just comparing prices. It starts to matter once the work begins, when something you assumed was included turns out to cost extra, or the prep gets trimmed to hold the number, or the finished job doesn't hold up the way you hoped.
That's why our pricing is online. The pricing pages lay out what a job like yours might cost, and what moves the number, before we ever meet.
From there, your written proposal locks in the scope and the price: which surfaces, which products, how many coats, what prep comes first. If something needs to change once we're into the job, you approve it in writing before anything on your house changes.
Read before we ever meet
Read the actual numbers before we ever ring your doorbell. You don’t hand over your name or email just to see them.
See our painting cost guidesNo guessing after your written proposal
We're rarely the cheapest bid, and I'd rather you hear that from us now than feel blindsided by it later. Sometimes it goes the other direction. A job might not need everything we bring, and if yours doesn’t, we'll tell you that while we're standing in it.
Book Your Estimate OnlineAfter you tap the button
Six steps, and you can see every one of them coming.
You book online: pick a real time on a real calendar, about ninety seconds.
The visit: we come measure, and you walk us through whatever’s been on your mind.
A written proposal: the scope and the price, fixed.
Your crew arrives: floors, furniture and landscaping covered before any painting starts.
Every day after: a crew leader on site, with an update going to our office and to you.
The final walkthrough: we walk the whole job together before anyone calls it done.
Pick a real appointment time on a real calendar, whenever works for you. If you decide to hire us afterward, 10% holds your project dates, never more than $1,000.
Day three, on your job
It's day three, and there's a drip mark on the hallway trim. You've noticed it every time you've walked past since yesterday, and you're rehearsing how to mention it without sounding difficult.
On our jobs you never have to rehearse it. Your crew leader is standing right there, and the small stuff is exactly what you want to raise early, while it's still small. We get an update from the crew every day, and so do you.
Anybody can type the word care onto a website. On your property it means floors and furniture and landscaping covered before painting starts, the site left orderly every evening, and cleanup good enough that customers mention it in their reviews before we ever ask them to.
By the time we get to the final walkthrough, you've had the whole job to speak up. We walk it together at the end as one last check that nothing slipped past either of us before we call it done.
These are screenshots straight off Google, so what you're reading is what these homeowners actually typed. Zoom in on them, then go read the rest at the source.
The founder answers to his own name in every review.
Read them all on GoogleStraight answers
Answered here the same way we answer them standing in your driveway.
It changes enough from one house to the next that any honest number needs us to get out there and look first. Our pricing pages lay out what drives the cost and the ranges you can expect before we ever visit, and your written proposal is what fixes the final price.
Ask every bidder the same handful of questions and watch who answers straight. Who is actually going to be on your crew, their own employees or subcontractors? What does the written proposal really pin down, right down to products and coats and prep? And what happens if you spot a problem while they're still working? A painter worth hiring won’t dodge any of it. Ours are answered right here on this page.
Michael Hines Painting handles interior painting, exterior painting, cabinet painting and refinishing, deck staining, and commercial projects across Diamond Springs and the Highway 50 corridor. Each service has its own Diamond Springs page with full details.
No. Every painter on your project is a Michael Hines Painting employee.
Yes. Diamond Springs is well within our service area, our crews make the drive for scheduled projects, and booking works exactly the same as it does for our neighbors in Amador County. One thing we're used to off our home turf: if your homeowners association requires color approval before an exterior repaint, your written proposal spells out the products and colors in exactly the form most HOAs ask to see, and we include a digital rendering of the proposed colors on your home for the submission, at no charge.
Whatever brought you here
House painting nearby: Placerville · Shingle Springs · or see everywhere we work.
The same kitchen, before and after the cabinets were sprayed.
The 90 second step
Reach us however suits you, by the form here or a call or a text. Whichever you pick, we come out and see it, then a written, fixed price. Nothing is due until you decide to hire us.
Michael Hines Painting · Ione, CA 95640 · (209) 256-4587