Search “painters auckland” and Google shows you three adverts before a single painter on the map: a painting company, a handyman on the Hibiscus Coast and an insulation and decorating firm. Scroll past them and the most-reviewed painter in the city turns out to have collected all of its 189 Google reviews since April 2024. We ran that search on 19 October 2026, took the 12 painters Google puts in front of you, downloaded all 1,459 of their Google reviews and read every website, guarantee and quote form. Below: what a repaint costs, what a quote must include under New Zealand law, what homeowners write about, and a close look at each painter.
Quick answers
- An interior repaint of a 3-bedroom house costs $4,500 to $10,000 or more, according to the only painter in the top 12 that publishes prices. A single small room is $500 to $1,200.
- Labour runs at $35 to $70 an hour, or $20 to $50 a square metre including paint, in the same guide.
- Residential work of $30,000 or more, including GST, needs a written contract by law, plus a checklist and a disclosure statement before you sign.
- Clean Finish Painting in Henderson has the most Google reviews (189) and the most new ones: 105 in the last 12 months.
- Only 18 of the 1,459 reviews give one or two stars. The ones with text mostly describe a small job left unfinished, skipped preparation or a project that ran long.
In this guide
The top 12 painters in Auckland
How we chose them: the three painters in Google’s map results for “painters auckland”, plus the nine with the most Google reviews among the painters on the first two pages of Google’s places list. Adverts, builders and handymen are left out. Six of the twelve list a central or eastern suburb, four are in the west or on the North Shore, and Pakuranga and East Tāmaki cover the south-east.
The adverts were for Vortex Painting, a Hibiscus Coast handyman called Atherden and APG, an insulation and decorating company. Vortex also bought the top spot in the map, where it is listed as a home builder. Under the map came Auckland City Painters, Auckland Premium Painters and Smart House Painters. Then the ordinary results: The House Painters, MoneyHub’s list of Auckland painters, Eastern Painters, Master Painters NZ’s “find a painter” page and NoCowboys.
Google’s “People also ask” box shows what people want to know first: “How much does a painter charge per hour in NZ?”, “Is it worth paying a painter?” and “How much does it cost to paint a house in Auckland?”.
| Painter | Based in | Google rating (reviews) | Guarantee on the website | Master Painters NZ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clean Finish Painting | Henderson | 5.0 (189) | “Under 5 years warranty” | Not listed |
| Nice Painting Company | Stonefields | 5.0 (180) | Not stated | Not listed |
| Smart House Painters | Greenhithe | 5.0 (171) | 5-year workmanship warranty | Not listed |
| KEMPT Painting & Decorating | St Johns | 5.0 (147) | “Satisfaction guaranteed”, no term | Not listed |
| Emaan Painters | Te Atatū Peninsula | 5.0 (132) | Not stated | Not listed by that name |
| Auckland Premium Painters | Epsom | 5.0 (116) | Warranty, no term given | Not listed |
| Auckland City Painters | Grafton | 4.9 (114) | 5-year workmanship guarantee | Listed |
| Go 1 Day Painting | Ellerslie | 4.7 (109) | “100% satisfaction guarantee” | Not listed |
| Baban Painters | Bayview | 5.0 (99) | 5-year guarantee | Listed |
| Onyx Painters | Pakuranga | 5.0 (75) | Not stated | Listed as Malaysia Chinese Painter Ltd (see card) |
| Kowhai Painters | Grey Lynn | 4.7 (65) | Warranty certificate, no term | Not listed |
| Auckland Roof Painting | East Tāmaki | 4.7 (62) | 10 to 15 years on paints and coatings | Not listed (Roofing Association member) |
Tip: click or tap any chart or screenshot in this guide to open it full screen.
Just outside the twelve: Restorative Painters (5.0 from 37), Davis House Painters (5.0 from 36) and Trusted Painters NZ (5.0 from 36).
What painting costs in Auckland
Eleven of the twelve publish no prices at all. Their websites say “competitive pricing”, “affordable prices” or “no hidden costs”, and leave the number for the site visit. That is normal in painting, because two 3-bedroom houses can need very different amounts of work. It also means the one painter that does publish figures gets a lot of attention.
Smart House Painters’ guide to interior painting in Auckland puts a small room at $500 to $1,200, a medium room at $1,200 to $2,500 and a full 3-bedroom interior at $4,500 to $10,000 or more. Its labour figures are $35 to $70 an hour for smaller jobs, or $20 to $50 a square metre for a full repaint including paint.
| What it covers | Smart House Painters’ figure |
|---|---|
| Labour, small jobs | $35 to $70 an hour |
| Full repaint, labour and paint | $20 to $50 per m² |
| Budget paint (PPG, Wattyl) | $30 to $50 a litre |
| Mid-range paint (Dulux Wash&Wear) | $50 to $80 a litre |
| Premium paint (Resene SpaceCote) | $80 to $120+ a litre |
| Filling cracks and holes | $200 to $800 |
| Sanding rough surfaces | $300 to $1,000 |
| Wallpaper removal | $500 to $2,000 |
| Mould treatment | $300 to $1,200 |
| Priming bare surfaces | $200 to $600 |
Read the guide on the website and you will notice something odd: the dollar signs have turned into repeated numbers, so “$500–$1,200” shows as “500–500–1,200”. The figures above are the corrected ones.
Exteriors are harder to price from a distance. Access, scaffolding, the state of the weatherboards and the age of the paint all count, and Kowhai Painters says a full exterior repaint generally takes one to two weeks, against one to three days for an interior room.
Repaint cost calculator
Pick the size of the job and the preparation it needs. The calculator adds Smart House Painters’ ranges together:
What might your interior repaint cost?
Ranges from the one painter in our top 12 that publishes a cost guide. Your quote will depend on your walls, ceilings and access.
Default: a 3-bedroom interior with no extra preparation, $4,500 to $10,000. Figures from Smart House Painters’ Auckland interior cost guide, viewed 19 October 2026; the two house sizes are “and up”. A guide only, not a quote.
How the calculator works
The painting range comes from Smart House Painters’ table for the size you choose; the two house sizes are open-ended (“and up”). Each preparation item adds its own low and high figure from the same guide. Low end is the painting minimum plus the preparation minimums, high end the two maximums. GST treatment is not stated in the guide. Your painter’s quote replaces all of this.
Quotes, guarantees and the law
A painting quote in New Zealand is more than a number. If the job is residential building work worth $30,000 or more, including GST, the Building Act requires a written contract, and before you sign, the painter has to give you the consumer protection checklist and a disclosure statement covering their skills, insurance and any guarantees. You can ask for those two documents on smaller jobs too. After any job, whatever the size, the painter must give you maintenance and warranty information, and must fix defects you report in writing within 12 months.
From the quoting desk
What’s the difference between a quote and an estimate? About three weekends and one long conversation about the skirting boards.
The difference is real, though. Consumer Protection describes a quote as an offer to do the job for a set price, which can only change if you agree to extra work or the scope changes. An estimate is a best guess, and the final cost should generally land within 10 to 15% of it. Of the twelve, Auckland City Painters, Auckland Premium Painters, Smart House Painters, Onyx Painters and Kowhai Painters explain on their websites how they quote: a site visit, a written quote, and in Kowhai’s case how long the work usually takes. Onyx will also give an online estimate from photos and plans, “subject to change”.
Built before 1980? Ask about lead
Houses painted before 1980 may have lead-based paint. Health New Zealand’s guidance is to avoid dry sanding and heat stripping, to use wet methods, and to clean up with a HEPA-filter vacuum. Ask your painter how they will manage it before work starts. Scaffolding is another question for the quote: WorkSafe must be told 24 hours before work with a fall risk of 5 metres or more, but residential buildings of up to two full storeys are excluded.
Guarantees vary more than ratings do. Five of the twelve give a length on their websites: five years at Auckland City Painters, Smart House Painters and Baban Painters, “under 5 years warranty” at Clean Finish, and 10 to 15 years on roof coatings at Auckland Roof Painting. Four mention a guarantee without a term, and three mention none. Master Painters NZ lists only two of the twelve under their own names, Auckland City Painters and Baban Painters.
What 1,459 Google reviews tell you
Every one of the twelve has 4.7 stars or more, and 1,441 of the 1,459 reviews give three stars or better. So we looked at when the reviews were written, who answers them and what homeowners say.
Who is collecting reviews now
Clean Finish Painting got 105 new Google reviews in the 12 months to 19 October, more than the next three painters put together (Smart House Painters 38, Emaan Painters 31 and Auckland City Painters 26). At the other end, Auckland Premium Painters got 6. It is one of the three painters in the map results, on the strength of 116 reviews, 80 of them written between 2019 and 2021.
Reviews rarely arrive one at a time. Clean Finish had 30 in September 2024, eight of them on the 21st, and 35 in April 2026. Nice Painting Company got 10 on 23 August 2025. Smart House Painters is the exception: a few a month for two years, never more than eight.
Waves usually mean a painter has asked a batch of past clients for a review, which Google allows as long as nobody is paid or rewarded for it and every client gets asked, not only the happy ones.
Who replies
Emaan Painters and Auckland City Painters have answered every Google review they have ever had: 132 and 114. Smart House Painters answered all 38 from the last year. Baban Painters has 99 reviews, all five stars, and has not replied to any of them. KEMPT replied to 45 of its 48 reviews in 2024, then to none of the 35 since.
What homeowners write about
We searched the 1,299 reviews with text for recurring themes. Quality comes first, in the plain words people use: “professional”, “finish”, “high standard”. Then time (on time, quick, efficient), communication, and the quote or price. Tidiness gets 9%, and preparation, the part painters say counts most, only 7%. Homeowners judge what they can see.
Overheard on a West Auckland deck
“When can you start on the outside?” “First dry Tuesday.” “This year?” “I said dry. I didn’t say soon.”
The 18 one- and two-star reviews tell a consistent story: a small part of the job left unfinished after a promise to come back, preparation skipped (a house not washed, windows not masked), a subcontractor nobody mentioned, or work that took longer than expected. Seven of the 18 are for Go 1 Day Painting, spread over 2020 to 2025. Almost none are about the colour or the paint itself.
Years on the website, years on Google
Most painters here say they have been at it a long time: Kowhai Painters since 1977, Auckland Roof Painting for 35 years, Onyx since 2000. Their Google histories are much shorter, which is common for trades that won work by word of mouth long before Google reviews existed. The gap that stands out is Clean Finish: “17 years of experience” on the website, a first Google review in April 2024, and “3+ years in business” on its own Google profile.
SEO4 Local Score
For painters, and for anyone curious how these businesses present themselves online, we scored each one on eight checks, 0 to 2 points each, out of 16. None of them are our clients. This is a public snapshot from 19 October 2026, written in good faith, and a website score says nothing about the quality of anyone’s painting.
| Painter | Title and heading | Prices | Guarantee | Credentials | Quote process | New reviews | Replies | Housekeeping | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland City Painters | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Smart House Painters | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Baban Painters | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| Auckland Premium Painters | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Go 1 Day Painting | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Onyx Painters | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Emaan Painters | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Nice Painting Company | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Kowhai Painters | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Auckland Roof Painting | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Clean Finish Painting | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| KEMPT Painting & Decorating | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
How we score
- Title and heading: 2 if the service (painters, painting) and Auckland or a suburb appear in both the home page title and its main heading, 1 if in one of them, 0 if in neither.
- Prices: 2 for a price list on the painter’s own website, 1 for a cost guide with price ranges, 0 for no figures.
- Guarantee: 2 if the website states how long the guarantee or warranty lasts, 1 if it mentions one without a term, 0 if it mentions none.
- Credentials: 2 if the painter is listed in the Master Painters NZ directory under its own name, 1 for another trade body or a paint maker’s programme (such as Resene Eco Decorator) or a listing under another company name, 0 for none shown.
- Quote process: 2 if the website explains how quoting works (site visit, written quote, timing), 1 for a quote form or button only.
- New reviews: 2 for 30 or more Google reviews in the last 12 months, 1 for 10 to 29, 0 for fewer.
- Replies: 2 if the painter answered 80% or more of its Google reviews in the last 12 months, 1 for 20% to 79%, 0 below 20%.
- Housekeeping: 2 if names, contact details and claims agree across the website and Google, 1 for small slips such as typos, placeholder text or an old footer year, 0 for conflicting addresses, phone numbers or business names.
The 12 painters in detail
In order of Google reviews, most first. For each: the numbers, what the website and Google profile do well, and what we would change if it were ours to fix.
1. Clean Finish Painting (6/16): the review leader nobody can find by name
- 189 Google reviews, all since 9 April 2024
- 105 new reviews in the last 12 months, the most in this guide
- Interior, exterior, roof, fence and spray painting, plastering and water blasting
- Replied to 40 of 189 reviews
On Google, Clean Finish is the busiest painter in Auckland. Homeowners praise the finish and the speed, and one review in six mentions time: on schedule, quick, efficient. Its website offers 20% off and a step-by-step quote process, and lists painting from fences to roofs.
Search for the business by name, though, and two other West Auckland painting sites come up first, ahead of Clean Finish’s own. Its website title is just “Home” and the home page has no main heading, so Google has little to go on. Its contact page gives the address as 3/29 Garelja Road, while Google says 27 Mildmay Road. There are two phone numbers, the second with an extra digit, the 20% offer button links nowhere, and the Facebook, Instagram and YouTube icons all open the About page. “17 years of experience” sits awkwardly next to Google’s “3+ years in business”.
What we would change:
- One address and one phone number on the website and Google.
- A page title such as “Clean Finish Painting | House Painters in Henderson, West Auckland” and a heading to match.
- Explain the 17 years, for example “painting since 2009, our own business since 2023”, if that is the story.
- Answer the reviews. 105 a year is roughly two a week.
2. Nice Painting Company (6/16): seven teams and a sense of humour
- 180 Google reviews since 2018, 165 of them answered
- “Possibly the nicest painters in New Zealand”
- Seven teams across Auckland and Nelson; spraying to levels 4 and 5, gib fixing and stopping
- Testimonials from Harcourts, Ray White and Barfoot & Thompson agents
The mission statement is “Be Nice, and Do Nice Paint Work”, and the reviews suggest it works: “friendly” and “lovely” show up often, and one review in seven says the client had used them before or would again. The real estate agent testimonials make sense too. Agents need a painter who turns a house around before an open home, and three of Auckland’s biggest agencies vouch for this one.
What’s missing are the details a homeowner wants. No guarantee, no explanation of how quotes work, no prices, and the testimonials on the page date from 2017 to 2021. Owner Steve is “Steve” in some places and “Steven” in others. Google also shows a second copy of the site on a netlify.app address, which splits attention between two versions of the same page.
Where we would start:
- State a guarantee, even a simple one, with its length.
- A short “how we quote” section: visit, written quote, start date.
- Retire the netlify.app copy so Google only sees nicepaint.co.nz.
- Add the newest Google reviews to the website; there are 35 from 2025 alone.
3. Smart House Painters (12/16): the only one that publishes prices
- 171 Google reviews since 2017, none of them one or two stars
- 2025 and 2026 are its best years: 32 and 33 reviews
- Answered all 38 reviews from the last 12 months
- 5-year workmanship warranty, “19+ years experience”
Smart House Painters is the only painter in the top 12 that tells you what painting costs before you call, and its cost guide is detailed: rooms, whole houses, labour, paint grades and preparation. That page gives Google a reason to show the business to people searching for prices. Reviews mention exteriors more than any other painter’s, and communication comes up in a third of them.
The guide needs fixing, though: the dollar signs have broken, so prices read “500–500–1,200” instead of “$500–$1,200”. The site also names the business six ways (Smart Painting, Smart Painting Ltd, Smart House Painters Auckland, Smart Painters and more), says “170+ Google reviews” in the heading and “over 200 five-star reviews” lower down, and uses a Gmail address.
If we were fixing it:
- Repair the dollar signs on the cost guide. It is the most useful page any painter in this guide has.
- Pick one business name and use it everywhere.
- One review number, with a date.
- Add an exterior cost guide; exteriors are what its clients write about most.
4. KEMPT Painting & Decorating (5/16): great reviews, and then silence
- 147 Google reviews since September 2021, 26 of them that month
- Replied to 45 of 48 reviews in 2024, none of the 35 since
- Resene Eco Decorator, Site Safe member, BNI Metro
- Dulux, Aalto and Porters paints; “over 20 years” in New Zealand, Australia and the UK
KEMPT’s clients name Miles in more than half of their reviews, and write about the detail of the work. KEMPT’s site is clean and confident, with project videos and a clear call button. Using Aalto and Porters, paints most painters never mention, tells a design-minded client something too.
Underneath, the site looks unfinished. The main heading is not marked up as one, the page title has no Auckland in it, and there are leftovers from a template: “New Page” links, “Describe what you’re all about”, an image called “Draft Kempt Logo”. There is no guarantee term, no quote process and no prices. And after answering almost every review in 2024, KEMPT has stopped.
Three quick fixes:
- Clear out the template text and give the home page a real heading: “Painters and decorators in Auckland”.
- Answer the 35 unanswered reviews; it reads as if the business has gone quiet.
- Say how long the satisfaction guarantee lasts.
5. Emaan Painters (7/16): every review answered, and a heading that needs a badge
- Replied to all 132 Google reviews, back to 2020
- 31 new reviews in the last 12 months
- Interior, exterior, roof, spray, bathroom, deck and fence painting, gib stopping
- “Zero travel premiums” across Auckland
Emaan does the review habit better than almost anyone here: every review answered since 2020, and only one review below five stars, a four in 2020. Its site is modern, covers the whole region suburb by suburb, and has a “Latest Snaps” section with photos from current jobs, which is a good way to show work in progress.
The main heading reads “New Zealand’s Trusted Master Painters”. Emaan is not in the Master Painters NZ directory under that name, so a visitor could read the heading as a membership claim. If the business is a member, a logo and membership number would settle it; if not, “Trusted painters” says the same thing safely. There is no phone link on the website either, and no guarantee.
Our list for Emaan:
- Clarify the Master Painters wording.
- Add a tap-to-call phone number at the top of the page.
- State a guarantee and its length.
6. Auckland Premium Painters (8/16): in the map on the strength of 2020
- 80 of its 116 Google reviews were written in 2019 to 2021
- 6 new reviews in the last 12 months
- $5 million public liability insurance
- Free on-site visit and written quote with a timeframe
Auckland Premium Painters is one of three painters in Google’s map for “painters auckland”, and its reviews are excellent: clients name the painter, Danny, in most of them. Its site explains the quote process clearly, lists the suburbs it covers and mentions its insurance, which few painters do.
Search for it by name and two other painters advertise on that search: Better House Painters and AA Boss Painting. The site’s heading says “House Painters in North Shore, Auckland” while the About page says the team is based in Epsom. The footer still says © 2024, the testimonials heading has no testimonials under it, and one sentence reads “The take pride in our quality”. The warranty is mentioned without a length.
What would help most:
- Ask recent clients for Google reviews; the map position rests on old ones.
- One home base in the heading and the About page.
- Fill the empty testimonials section with real Google reviews.
- Give the warranty a term.
7. Auckland City Painters (12/16): the most complete website in the guide
- Registered Master Painters member, listed in the directory, with Gold Award wins
- 5-year workmanship guarantee and full liability insurance
- Replied to all 114 Google reviews since 2015
- “857+ homes painted”, an 8-step process from quote to handover
If you want to see what a painter’s website can do, start here. The heading has the service and the city, the trust signals are verifiable (Master Painters membership, awards, a guarantee with a term), and the quote process is spelled out. Director John Pujol’s team has answered every Google review for 11 years. Reviews talk about communication more than at most painters.
The rough edges are small: every service card’s link goes to the interior painting page, two links on the page lead to “about:blank”, testimonials repeat, and the privacy policy mentions “design services”, which looks copied from another business.
Next steps we’d suggest:
- Point each service card to its own page.
- Fix the blank links and the duplicate testimonials.
- Add the price ranges that Smart House Painters already shows. With a 5-year guarantee behind them, they would carry weight.
8. Go 1 Day Painting (8/16): a memorable name with nothing explained behind it
- 109 Google reviews since 2016
- Answered all 9 reviews from the last 12 months
- Resene Eco Decorator; NoCowboys member
- 7 of the 18 low ratings in this guide
The phone number is clever and so is the name. The site explains each service, offers eco-friendly paints and a “100% satisfaction guarantee”, and takes quote requests through a proper form. Recent reviews have all been answered.
What “one day” means is never explained, which leaves the name doing a lot of work. The low ratings, spread across five years, mention preparation that was skipped and work passed to a subcontractor. There are typos in the main buttons (“Book you FREE QUOTE here!”), two links to “about:blank” and no guarantee term.
Where we would start:
- Explain the name: what can be painted in one day, and what can’t.
- Say who does the work, and if subcontractors are used, say how they are checked.
- Fix the button typos; they are the first words many visitors read.
9. Baban Painters (9/16): 99 five-star reviews and not one reply
- 99 Google reviews since 2019, every one five stars
- No replies to any of them
- Master Painters member, listed in the directory
- 5-year guarantee, “over 19 years’ experience”
Baban is one of only two painters in the top 12 listed by Master Painters NZ under its own name, and it says so at the top of the home page, next to a five-year guarantee. Its reviews mention price and value more than most (“fair”, “reasonable”), and time almost as often.
Some template leftovers remain: a “Contact Form Demo” heading, the main heading repeated twice, an “Email Us” button that does nothing and video links that go to “about:blank”. And 99 unanswered five-star reviews is a missed chance: a reply under each one is free advertising.
Three quick fixes:
- Remove the demo heading and fix the email button.
- Reply to the most recent 20 reviews this month.
- Name the paint brands used, as most of its competitors do.
10. Onyx Painters (8/16): award-winning work, a website still pointing elsewhere
- Master Painters Gold Awards of Excellence for an exterior and an interior
- Quotes in person; online estimates from photos and plans
- Posts on its Google profile every month
- Replied to 11 of the 13 reviews from the last year
Onyx has the strongest credentials story after Auckland City Painters: two Master Painters gold awards, Dulux and Resene logos, and a family business handed from founder James to director Jeremy. Its Google profile is active, with a new post every month.
The website has not caught up. The Contact menu and one email address point to malaysiachinesepainter.co.nz and a Hotmail address, and Master Painters NZ lists “Malaysia Chinese Painter Limited”, not Onyx. Visitors can easily wonder whether they have the right company. The footer says ©2017, the site lists “Eest Auckland” among its areas, and leftover text such as “Anchor 1” shows on the page.
What would help most:
- Point every contact link to onyxpainters.nz and Jeremy’s address.
- Explain the name change in one line, and ask Master Painters to show the Onyx name.
- Show some of the 75 Google reviews on the website; there are none there now.
11. Kowhai Painters (6/16): since 1977, but 2026 has been a hard year
- Founded in 1977 by Lance Russell, “1000+ projects”
- Free on-site quotes, written quote upfront; timing explained
- 7 reviews in 2026, averaging 3.86 stars
- Replied to 2 of 65 reviews
Kowhai explains the job better than most: on-site quotes, a written quote before work starts, one to three days for a room and one to two weeks for an exterior, and a warranty certificate at the end. A painting business that started in 1977 has a story few competitors can match.
The numbers don’t agree with each other. It says “30+ years” in one place and “40+ years” in another, opening hours are “Mon – Sun 24 Hours”, the phone number differs from Google’s, and the menu links to service pages for Queenstown, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. The testimonials section is empty. On Google, two one-star reviews in August 2026 describe jobs that took longer than expected.
If we were fixing it:
- One phone number, one set of hours and one experience figure (since 1977 is the strongest).
- Respond to the August reviews, calmly and with the facts.
- Remove the pages for cities Kowhai doesn’t work in, or explain them.
12. Auckland Roof Painting (6/16): the specialist that guarantees for longest
- Roofs only: painting and restoration, residential and commercial
- 10 to 15 year warranty on paints and coatings
- Member of the Roofing Association of New Zealand
- “35 years experience”
A roof is a different job from a living room, and Auckland Roof Painting says so plainly. It offers the longest stated guarantee in this guide and belongs to the roofing industry’s association. Almost two thirds of its reviews mention the roof, and about a quarter name staff, often Wayne and Eric, which suggests clients deal with the same people from quote to finish.
Its own site shows “4.7 from 59 reviews”, which has since become 62, says ©2024 in the footer and shows a piece of Google Tag Manager code as visible text. On Google, it replied to 1 of the 9 reviews from the last year, and one recent low rating describes a garage door left unpainted after a promise to return.
Our list for Auckland Roof Painting:
- Remove the visible tracking code and update the footer.
- Start answering new reviews, the low ones first.
- Add a roof painting cost guide by roof type; nobody else in the top 12 has one.
For painters: quoting faster and winning more of them
Three things separate the painters who collect reviews from the ones who don’t, and none of them is the quality of the paintwork. The reviews say that is excellent almost everywhere.
- Quote quickly and in writing. Clients compare two or three quotes. The one that arrives first, clear and with GST shown, starts ahead.
- Ask every client for a Google review when the job is signed off, not months later. A request after every job beats a burst once a year.
- Answer every review. Emaan, Auckland City Painters and Smart House Painters do. Baban and KEMPT, with 161 unanswered reviews between them, show what it looks like when nobody does.
- Put one guarantee, one phone number and one address everywhere. Three of the twelve have conflicting details somewhere.
Check a quote before it goes out:
Painters: check a quote before you send it
Labour, paint and materials, and GST in one place. Use your own numbers.
Defaults are an example: 40 hours at $55 (inside the $35 to $70 an hour in Smart House Painters’ Auckland guide), 20 litres of mid-range paint at $65 a litre and $150 of other materials. Not tax advice.
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- A PDF on the spot, shared by email, SMS or WhatsApp from your phone, only when you choose to send it.
- Accepted quote becomes a job automatically, with the client, description and value carried over.
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Common questions
Smart House Painters, the only one of Auckland’s 12 most-reviewed painters that publishes prices, puts a small room at $500 to $1,200, a medium room at $1,200 to $2,500 and a 3-bedroom interior at $4,500 to $10,000 or more (October 2026). Preparation such as filling, sanding or wallpaper removal costs extra.
Smart House Painters’ Auckland guide gives $35 to $70 an hour for smaller jobs, or $20 to $50 a square metre for a full repaint including paint. Most painters quote a fixed price for the whole job after a site visit.
For residential building work of $30,000 or more, including GST, yes. Before you sign, the painter must also give you the consumer protection checklist and a disclosure statement. You can ask for these on smaller jobs too, and the painter must fix defects you report in writing within 12 months of finishing.
A quote is an offer to do the job for a set price, which can only change if you agree to extra work or the scope changes. An estimate is a best guess; Consumer Protection says the final cost should generally be within 10 to 15% of it.
On 19 October 2026, Clean Finish Painting had 189, Nice Painting Company 180, Smart House Painters 171 and KEMPT Painting & Decorating 147. Clean Finish also had the most new reviews in the previous 12 months, 105.
Sources and how we checked
- Google search, Google Places results (first two pages) and Google searches for each painter by name for “painters auckland”, viewed 19 October 2026 from New Zealand. Results depend on where you search from.
- Google reviews: SEO4 collected every public Google review of the 12 painters (1,459 reviews) on 19 October 2026, with date, stars and owner reply. Themes are keyword matches in the 1,299 reviews with text; one review can match several themes.
- Prices: Smart House Painters, Interior Painting Cost in Auckland, viewed 19 October 2026.
- Painters’ websites: Clean Finish Painting, Nice Painting Company, Smart House Painters, KEMPT, Emaan Painters, Auckland Premium Painters, Auckland City Painters, Go 1 Day Painting, Baban Painters, Onyx Painters, Kowhai Painters and Auckland Roof Painting, all viewed 19 October 2026.
- Membership: Master Painters NZ, Find a Painter, 19 October 2026.
- Rules: building.govt.nz, consumer protection measures; Consumer Protection, quotes and estimates; HealthEd, safely removing lead-based paint; WorkSafe, notifiable hazardous work.
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