Virgil Hemphill
Owner and estimator
Walks every house first, writes every proposal and goes over every color schedule with the owner before it is submitted.
About the firm
A small crew for old exteriors
Hemphill Historic Painting is five people who repair and paint the outsides of old houses.
Virgil Hemphill walks every house, writes every proposal and stands at the door at the end. The same crew stays on a job from the first scraper to the last coat, so the person who finds the rot is the person who repairs it.
The owner walks every house first
The same crew from first day to last
One carpenter on the team, for sills and sash
One person for color research and approvals
The crew
Who will be on your scaffold
Danita Kemp
Crew lead, wood and trim
Leads the scraping, wood repair and priming, and is on the scaffold every day of a job.
Hernan Guillen
Carpenter, windows and sills
Repairs sills, casings and clapboard before anything is primed, and matches profiles when a board can't be saved.
Alexa Dearborn
Color research and approvals
Takes the paint samples, reads the layers and puts together the packet your district asks for.
Davion Finch
Painter, shutters and doors
Brushes the trim, shutters and doors, and keeps the old hardware with the house it came from.
Credentials
The paperwork, in one place
What the district, your insurer or your lender may ask to see. Numbers are in the footer and in each proposal.
Business license
Business license
SC Registration 000000 · City of Charleston
Issued by the city to businesses that work in it
EPA certification
EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm (Renovation, Repair and Painting rule)
Firm number added by the owner
Insurance
Certificate of insurance
Sent with every proposal
Meet the crew at your house
We start with a walk around every elevation.