Huntley, Illinois · McHenry & Kane Counties
Trusted House & Commercial Painters in Huntley, IL
Free written estimate · no pressure
Free estimate
Itemized, in writing
Two coats
Brand & line named
Clean every day
Floors & furniture covered
2-yr warranty
In writing
About Our Huntley, IL Painting Services
Meet Your Local Painting Company
Huntley is the owner's home town, and it's where Level Best is run from, with our office up the road in Crystal Lake. That makes Huntley the easiest town on our calendar. Estimates are close, follow-ups are close, and if something needs a second look after the job, we aren't driving in from another county. We paint inside and out, refinish cabinets, fix drywall and take on commercial work across the 60142 ZIP, on both sides of the McHenry and Kane county line.
Level Best is owned and run locally. The owner prices your job, our crews do the work, and he walks it with you at the end. Every estimate is free, written and itemized, so you can see the prep, the paint line and the number of coats before you say yes. Call or send the form and we call you back within 24 hours.
Painting in Huntley splits two ways. Del Webb's Sun City has more than 5,400 homes, most of them ranches, and the people who live there want a quiet crew that shows up when it said it would. Then there's the family side of town. Wing Pointe went up in the early 2000s, Covington Lakes came after it, and Talamore is still adding houses. Around the downtown square, where the farmers market sets up on summer Saturdays, the homes are older and the prep runs deeper.
Serving all of Huntley (60142) in McHenry & Kane Counties.
Interior House Painters of Huntley, IL
A lot of Huntley interiors are due for their first real repaint. Plenty of Wing Pointe and Covington Lakes homes still have the builder colors they came with, usually a flat beige that marks up if you brush past it. We move those rooms to a finish you can wipe down, cut a clean line where the wall meets the ceiling, and give the trim its own coat of enamel. The two-story foyers in these floor plans take planks and tall ladders, so we plan for them at the estimate instead of finding out on day one.
In Sun City the interior job is often the whole house at once, timed before family comes in for the summer. Most of these homes are one level, which helps, but you're living in the house while we paint it. So we keep it tight. Furniture goes to the middle of the room and gets covered, floors get covered, and at the end of each day the house is put back so you can use it that night. Nail holes get filled, trim gets caulked, and walls get two coats.
Winter is a good time for inside work here. From November through April there's no weather to wait on and the schedule has more room in it. If you also want the outside done, paint the inside over the winter and hold a spring spot for the exterior while we're already on your calendar.
Exterior House Painters of Huntley, IL
Most Sun City ranches have vinyl siding with a brick front, so the siding itself doesn't get painted. The exterior job there is the trim, fascia, soffits, shutters, the front door and the garage door. It's a smaller job than a full repaint, but it's what people see from the street. We wash the chalk off first, cut out caulk that has split, prime any bare wood, and put on two coats in the color your association approved.
On the family side of town the lots are open and the trees are still young. South and west walls take full sun all summer and fade first, and in winter the wind comes straight across the fields. Freeze and thaw opens the caulk joints around windows and doors every year. On fiber-cement or hardboard homes we paint the whole house, siding included, and we spend the prep time on the joints and bottom edges where water gets in.
Our exterior season runs May through early October. Paint needs warm surfaces, dry wood and nights that stay above freezing, and the calendar fills up by March. If you want a summer exterior in Talamore or Wing Pointe, get on the list over the winter. Most of the newer neighborhoods here have color rules, so send us the palette and we'll put the product and color in writing for your board.
Cabinet Painters in Huntley, IL
Many Sun City and Wing Pointe kitchens still have the oak or maple cabinets they came with around 2000. The boxes are usually solid. It's the color that dates the room. We take the doors and drawer fronts off and label them, then degrease and sand everything, prime with a bonding primer, and spray a cabinet enamel. The boxes get masked and finished in place. Plan on three to five working days for most kitchens. If your boxes aren't worth painting, we'll tell you before you spend the money.
Drywall Repair in Huntley, IL
Huntley's newer homes are still settling, and the walls show it. In Talamore, Wing Pointe and Covington Lakes we see hairline cracks running off the corners of doors and windows, nail pops down the hallways, and ceiling seams that opened up as the framing dried. Those get taped and mudded so they stay closed, not smeared with spackle and left to crack again next winter.
Sun City repairs tend to be smaller. A crack over a door, a ceiling stain after an ice dam, a few anchor holes from a TV that moved. We match the builder's texture, prime the patch and paint it out so it blends into the wall. Most small repairs take one visit, and a few phone photos are often enough for a written price. If a ceiling stain is still wet, the leak gets fixed first. We don't close up a wet ceiling.
Huntley, IL Commercial Painters
We also paint for Huntley businesses. That means storefronts and offices around the downtown square, shops and offices along the Route 47 corridor, and common areas for associations and townhome buildings. Commercial work starts with a site walk and ends with a written proposal that spells out the scope, the product and the schedule. We plan the painting around your open hours so customers and staff can keep coming and going.
What Sets Us Apart?
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Free Estimate
We come out, look at the job with you, and you get a written, itemized price. No pressure.
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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.
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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.
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Final Walk-Through
We walk the job with you before we call it done. If something isn't right, we fix it.
What You Get With Level Best in Huntley
- Free written, itemized estimate
- Paint brand and line named on the estimate
- Two coats
- Floors, furniture and landscaping covered
- Clean up every day
- Final walk-through with you
- Locally owned, not a franchise
- 2-year workmanship warranty in writing
Painting in Huntley: Common Questions
We're in Sun City. What's it like having your crew in the house?
Quiet and tidy. We confirm the schedule before we start, cover floors and furniture, keep the work area small, and clean up at the end of every day. Most Sun City homes are one level, so the crew can work room by room without moving your whole house around. If your street has rules about trucks or work hours, tell us and we'll follow them.
Can you paint the vinyl siding on a Sun City or Talamore home?
Yes, with two rules. The color has to be vinyl-safe and no darker than the original, because dark colors soak up heat and can warp the panels. And the siding has to be washed clean of chalk first, or nothing sticks. Most association palettes already keep you to colors that pass both tests, so we start with the palette.
Our subdivision has color rules. Do you deal with that?
All the time. Sun City, Talamore and most of the newer Huntley neighborhoods have approved colors. We match the color exactly and give you the product name, line and color code in writing so you can turn in your approval before we start.
Is winter a good time to paint inside?
Yes. Interiors, cabinets and drywall repair are all inside work, so the weather doesn't matter, and the winter schedule has more open days than summer. Plenty of Sun City owners do the inside between November and April and book the outside for the following summer.
Are you actually local to Huntley?
Yes. Huntley is the owner's home town and the company is run from here, with our office in Crystal Lake at 135 Erick St Unit F. Estimates are close and so are follow-ups. Call or send the form and we call back within 24 hours.
How much does it cost to paint a house in Huntley?
It mostly comes down to how much of the house takes paint. A Sun City ranch with vinyl siding and a brick front is a trim, shutter and door job, and the price moves with how much fascia and soffit there is and how chalky the old paint has gotten. A fiber-cement two-story in Talamore needs siding, trim and caulk, which is the full job. We walk the house and give you an itemized written number.
Proudly Serving McHenry, Kane, Lake & Northwest Cook Counties
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