About Rise and Prime Painting.
Rise and Prime Painting is Raymond Gomez's company, opened in Baltimore in December 2016 and working Houston since November 2023. On Houston jobs, Ray still walks your house and writes the price, and a crew sized to your job paints it.
- 125 Google reviews, 5.0 average
- 3-Year Workmanship Warranty
- Call (443) 743-8052
Baltimore first, Houston second.
The business started in Baltimore at the end of 2016, working the housing stock that city's made of: rowhouses, formstone, painted brick, stone and stucco, and a lot of wood that's been through a lot of winters. That's where the lead-safe work came from. Many Baltimore rowhouses predate 1978, and the rules around disturbing old paint aren't optional.
Houston opened in November 2023. Ray's in Houston, so Houston jobs get the owner at the walkthrough. In Baltimore our crew works to the same standards, and the work carries the same 3-Year Workmanship Warranty. We'd rather say that plainly than let you picture him being in two places at once.
Rise and Prime also works with experienced painters across Houston, and there are four kinds of painter we want to hear from.
Certifications, and one of them is the useful kind.
The lead-safe certification is the one to ask any painter about if your house predates 1978.
EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm
The RRP certification. It decides how any home built before 1978 gets prepared, inside and out.
Aerial lift certified
Three-story exteriors and warehouse ceilings.
PCA member
Painting Contractors Association, active membership.
MHIC #120401, Maryland
Maryland licenses home improvement contractors and Ray holds one. Texas issues no equivalent for this trade.
Fully insured
A certificate of insurance goes to you or your HOA if you ask for one.
Hablamos español
Ray speaks it and so does the crew, in Houston and in Baltimore.
Take it from the people who've hired us.
What the work looks like from the inside.
Masking, doors off, a wall opened up, a fascia board pulled. The parts of a painting job that decide how the finished photo ages.
Want a walkthrough?
Tell us what needs paint. Ray walks Houston jobs himself.
- 125 Google reviews, 5.0 average
- EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm
- Fully insured
- 3-Year Workmanship Warranty
About the company.
Who is Rise and Prime Painting?
Rise and Prime Painting is Raymond Gomez's company. He opened it in Baltimore in December 2016, started working Houston in November 2023, and he's been in the painting trade more than twenty years in total. On Houston jobs he still does the walkthrough and writes the estimate himself, and a crew of typically two to four painters, sized to the job, does the prep and the painting.
Are you licensed?
In Maryland, yes: MHIC #120401. In Texas the honest answer's more useful than a yes. Texas doesn't issue a state license for painting contractors at all. What protects you here instead is insurance, the EPA Lead-Safe certification on anything built before 1978, and a written scope you signed before work started. We carry all three.
How long have you been doing this?
Ray personally, more than twenty years in the trade. The company, since December 2016. They're two different numbers and they're worth keeping apart. One is Ray's own time on the brush, the other is when Rise and Prime opened its doors.
Do you work in both Houston and Baltimore?
Rise and Prime Painting works in both Houston and Baltimore, and the two run a little differently. Houston is where Ray is, and he walks the jobs here himself. Baltimore is the original market, and our crew there works to the same standards under the same 3-Year Workmanship Warranty, but the owner isn't the person on your doorstep.
What does Lead-Safe Certified mean for me?
If your home was built before 1978 it may have lead paint in it, and disturbing it carelessly is dangerous, especially with small children in the house. An EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm is trained and certified in how to contain and clean up that work. For homes built before 1978, it's a federal requirement.
What will you not tell me?
Anything we haven't checked. You won't find a price per square foot on this site for work that gets priced by scope, a promise about how many coats your walls need before anybody's seen them, or a claim about how fast we can get out to you. Those are the easiest things to say and the hardest to keep.