About Level Best Painting

Our Story

Level Best Painting is owned and run by Tim Dodaro. He grew up serving customers in their homes in his father's carpet cleaning business and has worked in home services his whole life. Early on his dad taught him three things: do what you say you'll do, answer your phone, and pay attention to the details.

Tim also buys, sells and rehabs houses. For years he hired painting crews for his own properties, paid the bills, and walked the finished work as the customer. Some crews were fine. Plenty skipped prep, rushed the second coat or left a mess behind. He never found the crew he wanted to call every time. So he built it.

Level Best isn't a franchise. Tim has run franchised businesses before and didn't like what they put between the customer and the person responsible. Here there's one local owner and one standard, and the person who prices your job is the person who answers for it.

Tim wants every customer to be happy with the job. If you're not satisfied, it isn't done.

How We Work

Tim comes out to look at every job and writes the estimate himself. It's itemized. It lists the prep, the number of coats, the paint brand and line, and the schedule. If your job only needs a small repair, he'll tell you that too.

The painting is done by vetted crews who run their own jobs day to day. Tim picks the crews, checks in on the job while it's going, and walks the finished work with you before it's called done. If something isn't right on that walk, it gets fixed.

You get Tim's direct number for the whole job. If you have a question or a problem, you call the person who priced it.

Where We Work

Level Best is run from Huntley, with our office in Crystal Lake at 135 Erick St Unit F. We paint homes and businesses across McHenry, Kane, Lake and northwest Cook counties.

That covers Huntley, Lake in the Hills, Algonquin, Crystal Lake, Cary, McHenry, Woodstock, Barrington, Lake Zurich, Elgin, St. Charles and Carpentersville, plus the smaller towns around them. We know the housing out here. Sun City ranches, subdivisions coming up on their first repaint, and older homes in Woodstock and Elgin all need different prep, and we price them that way.

What You Can Expect

You'll hear back within 24 hours of reaching out. The estimate is free and written down, with every item listed, so you can compare it line by line against anyone else's.

On the job, our crew covers your floors, furniture and landscaping before the work starts. They do the prep that's on the estimate, put on two coats, and clean up at the end of every day. When the work is done, we walk it with you. We don't call it finished until you've seen it.

How Every Job Works

1. 1

   Free Estimate

   We come out, look at the job with you, and you get a written, itemized price. No pressure.

2. 2

   Color Selection & Schedule

   Pick your colors. We can help if you want it. Then we set a start date and tell you who's coming.

3. 3

   Prep, Paint & Clean-Up

   Our crew covers your floors, furniture and landscaping, does the prep right, puts on two coats, and cleans up every day.

4. 4

   Final Walk-Through

   We walk the job with you before we call it done. If something isn't right, we fix it.