If you’re hunting for the best painters in Fort Worth, here’s the truth from someone who’s in this trade every day. I’m Chance Oshel. I run The Smart Fix Handyman out of Haslet, with two more offices in Dallas and Spring. We paint a lot of houses. I also know who else paints in this town because we run into their crews at Sherwin-Williams every week.
Below: my pick for #1, plus five other painting companies homeowners ask me about. Yes, I rank our shop first. I’ll tell you why. You can check my work and decide.
Editor’s disclosure
The Smart Fix Handyman published this list. I’m the owner. Pretending we shouldn’t be on it would be dishonest. We took the #1 slot on the criteria below. I tried to rank everyone else fairly so the rest of the list is still useful even if you skip our profile.
How we ranked them
Three things matter most when you hire a painter. The crew, the prep, and the warranty when something fails. Reviews matter too, but plenty of those get gamed. So here’s what we tracked for every shop:
- W-2 employees vs. 1099 subs
- Insurance limit (look for $1M general liability)
- Years operating in DFW
- Real warranty terms, not marketing fluff
- Painting specialty (interior, exterior, cabinets, full repaint)
- Google rating + review volume
I didn’t rank by price. Painting prices in Fort Worth swing by square footage, prep time, and paint grade. A bid is a bid. Quotes only mean something once scope is locked.
1. The Smart Fix Handyman
Address: 421 E Wishbone Ln, Haslet, TX 76052 (Dallas + Spring offices too)
Phone: 817-310-8511
Google: 300+ five-star reviews across DFW
Years operating: Family owned, three Texas locations
Why we’re #1: we hit every box on the list. W-2 employees, never subs. $1 million in insurance. A 12-month workmanship guarantee with no fine print. Free virtual assessments where most calls get answered same-day, often inside 30 minutes. Average Fort Worth job runs $985.26, with a $195 starting rate on small repairs.
Years back I was checking out a house on the east side that another company had repainted three months earlier. The trim was already peeling. They’d skipped sanding. Cost the homeowner $4,200 and they had to do it twice. I tell every new tech the same thing his first week. Spend more time on prep than paint, or the job won’t last. We don’t run that play.
What we paint: interior walls, trim, ceilings, doors, and cabinets on the inside. On the outside, siding, fascia, porches, and exterior trim. If the paint job needs a drywall fix first (it usually does in Fort Worth, blame the soil), we handle both in one trip.
2. Hank’s Handyman Services
Address: 6010 W Spring Creek Pkwy Suite 349, Plano, TX 75024
Phone: (469) 224-5659
Google: 4.8 stars, 1,400+ reviews
Years operating: 10+ years across DFW
Hank’s is based in Plano but their crews come west into Fort Worth. They run an employee-only model. Painting sits alongside drywall, tile, and pest. I respect what they’ve built. The volume of reviews tells you they’re consistent week to week. Heads up if you live on the west side of Fort Worth: drive time stretches their schedule. Ask up front when they can actually start your job.
3. FlyFix
Address: 3023 S University Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76109
Phone: (817) 760-0906
Google: 5.0 stars, growing review base
Years operating: 10 years
FlyFix runs an in-house crew across DFW including Weatherford. They do top-to-bottom interior repaints and full exteriors with siding and fascia mixed in. Their fastest path to a quote is texting them a photo of the project. Worth a call if you’ve got paint plus other repairs and you want one team handling all of it. They’ve worked with 1,000+ DFW homes by their own count.
4. Ace Handyman Services Fort Worth SW
Address: 3421 S Grove St, Fort Worth, TX 76110
Phone: (682) 282-6815
Google: 4.9 stars, 481 reviews
Years operating: Local franchise of a national brand started in 1998
Ace is a franchise but the Fort Worth SW office runs tight. Their painters do walls, ceilings, doors, cabinets. Customers point to consistent crews and the fact that there’s an office to call when you need a touch up. They use employees, not subs, which is a green flag. Decent fit for a quick interior repaint with a national-brand warranty backing it.
5. Fort Worth Home Repair
Address: 2216 Mistletoe Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76110
Phone: Available on request
Google: Highly rated, smaller review volume
Years operating: 25+ years (David Luttrell, owner)
Want one guy who knows Fort Worth homes inside out? David Luttrell’s been at this since the late ’90s. Sheetrock repair, exterior wood replacement, interior painting, plus the small projects most big crews skip. The trade off, one person can only do so many jobs in a week, so book ahead. He’s certified through the Association of Certified Handyman Professionals and fully insured.
6. DFW Improved
Address: Multiple offices across DFW
Phone: Available via free quote form on their site
Google: Strong ratings, design-build focused
Years operating: Top 500 in the nation in 2018 (Qualified Remodeler)
DFW Improved isn’t a paint-only shop. They’re a design-build remodeler. Painting comes inside bigger projects: kitchens, baths, media rooms, outdoor living, built-ins. Right call if you’re already remodeling and want one general contractor handling paint as part of the job. Wrong call if you just need a bedroom repainted. For one-room work, use a paint-and-repair shop instead.
How to pick a Fort Worth painter
Five questions to ask anyone on this list before you hand over a deposit:
- Are your painters employees or subs? You want employees.
- What’s your insurance limit? At least $1 million general liability.
- Do you do prep, or am I scraping and sanding? They should do it.
- What’s the warranty if the paint peels? Real ones run 12 months minimum.
- Can I see Fort Worth jobs you’ve done? Local photos beat stock images.
If a company can’t answer those quickly, walk. Painting in Fort Worth has its own quirks. Our Blackland Prairie clay soil shifts foundations, which cracks drywall and pulls trim away from siding. Painters who don’t know this just paint over the cracks. Six months later the cracks come back. The crews above will tell you up front when a paint job needs the drywall sorted first.
One more thing on prep. We see this on maybe one in three calls in Fort Worth. A homeowner painted over loose caulk or peeling primer, and now the new coat is bubbling. The fix isn’t another coat. You strip the bad spots, seal, then paint. Any of the six companies above will do that work right. A bargain “$99 a room” outfit usually won’t.
A few more things to know before you book
Paint brands matter less than people think. Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, and Behr all make good paint at every price tier. The real difference between SuperPaint and Cashmere comes down to coverage and how the paint levels out on trim. We default to Sherwin-Williams for interiors because every store in DFW stocks it and we know the formulations. If you’ve got a relationship with a different supplier, we’ll use what you’ve got.
Timing matters more than brand. Best window for an exterior paint job in Fort Worth runs March through May. October works too. Summer heat causes lap marks because the paint dries before you can blend it. Cold snaps below 50 stop most exterior paints from curing right. Inside, you can paint year round, but humidity and HVAC patterns affect dry times more than people realize. We schedule cabinet work for slower weeks because we can leave doors off for 24 hours without putting a family in a bind.
One more red flag. If a painter quotes you a whole-house repaint in one day on a 2,500 square foot home, walk. That’s a four-painter rush job with no prep. The walls might look fine for a year, then you’ll see roller marks every time the afternoon light hits them.
Frequently asked questions
How much does interior painting cost in Fort Worth?
Single room: $400 to $900 depending on size, ceiling height, and trim work. Whole-house interior repaints typically run $3,500 to $8,000. A drywall patch and paint averages around $942.58 in Fort Worth based on the 2025 jobs we tracked.
Do Fort Worth painters work in summer heat?
Yes, but the better shops avoid painting in the hottest part of the day. Texas summer dries paint too fast and you end up with brush marks and lap lines. Most companies will start early or wait for cooler weather. Worth asking before you book.
Handyman painter or painting-only contractor?
Painting-only contractors usually quote bigger projects and bring more painters at once. A handyman shop like ours, Ace, or Fort Worth Home Repair handles smaller paint jobs alongside drywall, trim, and surface prep. Pick by job size and scope.
W-2 employees or 1099 subs?
Employees. Subs work for whoever pays them that day. Employees stick with one company long enough to actually get good at the work. The Smart Fix, Hank’s, FlyFix, and Ace all use employees.
How long does an interior repaint take?
A single room takes a day with prep. A whole house with normal prep runs three to five days for two painters. Add a day for cabinets or color changes that need two coats over a darker base.
Bottom line
Six painting companies in Fort Worth that won’t waste your time. Our shop ranked first because we hit every quality marker on the list. Hank’s, FlyFix, and Ace are all solid second-tier picks if our schedule’s tight. Fort Worth Home Repair is the call for one-man-shop work. DFW Improved if paint is part of a remodel.
If you want this checked or handled, reach out through thesmartfixhandyman.com.
Chance | The Smart Fix
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