LeadQuasar lists 388 residential painting businesses in the United States. 367 have a phone number and 110 have a business email address. These are the painting contractors themselves, not homeowners looking for a painter, so the list serves suppliers, software vendors, insurers, recruiters and painters looking for trade partners.
Is this a list of homeowners who need a painter?
No. If you run a painting company and searched for residential painter leads hoping to find homeowners ready to book an estimate, this list will not give you that. Every record is a painting business. LeadQuasar sells business contacts, and it does not sell homeowner or consumer leads.
There are still two honest ways a painter can use it.
Other painters are partners as well as rivals. A firm that does interiors and repaints often turns away exterior jobs, cabinet refinishing or commercial work, and the reverse is true too. A short call to a painter outside your specialty, offering to pass work both ways, costs nothing and can fill a slow month. The same list finds subcontractors for the weeks when you book more work than your crews can paint.
The businesses that send painting work are on LeadQuasar too. Homeowners ask the people around a sale or a renovation who to call. Property managers repaint between tenants, real estate agents get listings ready for market, home inspectors flag failing paint, and remodelers and interior designers need a painter at the end of most jobs. Each has its own guide: property management, real estate agents, home inspectors, home remodeling and interior designers. One property manager who sends you every turnover brings repeat work that a one-off estimate never will.
Who sells to residential painting contractors?
If you sell to painters rather than compete with them, this is the list for you. Most residential painting firms are small and run by an owner who still quotes jobs, so the owner usually buys everything:
- Paint and sundries. Painters stay loyal to a supplier and switch for price, job-site delivery or a rep who answers the phone.
- Spray equipment and access. Airless sprayers, ladders, scaffolding, lifts, and repairs that do not cost a working day.
- Estimating and job software. Quotes sent the same day, job photos, scheduling and invoicing.
- Marketing. Websites, reviews, local search and homeowner lead services. Painters do buy homeowner leads; they buy them from marketers, which is why marketers want this list.
- Insurance. General liability and workers' compensation, renewed every year.
- People. Painters, prep crews and subcontractors, which makes this a recruiting list as well.
- Vehicles. Vans, ladder racks, trailers and wraps.
The pitch that works is concrete. "Your quotes go out the same afternoon" lands; "we help contractors grow" does not. Name a problem the owner has this month and ask whether it happens to them.
Where are the residential painters on the list?
Three states have enough residential painters for a page of their own. They are ranked here by number of records, largest first, in the same order the residential painter hub uses.
Records in other states sit on the national hub until a state has enough to earn its own page. If you sell locally in Texas, Illinois or California, start with the state page. If you sell across the country, work the whole list from the hub.
At 388 records, this is a list you can work by hand. It is big enough to test an offer and hear what painters say about it, and small enough that you can read each website before you call. If you need thousands of contractors for a national campaign, treat it as a test group and widen the search with Find Leads.
Should you call or email painting contractors?
Call. 367 of the 388 records (94%) carry a phone number, against 110 (28%) with an email address. Painting owners answer the phone because that is how jobs come in, while a cold email from a stranger competes with supplier invoices and homeowner inquiries. Use email as the follow-up where you have an address.
Timing matters more than the script:
- Early morning, before crews and materials leave for the first job, is the best window.
- Late afternoon is quote and invoice time, and owners often return calls then.
- Midday they are on site, walking estimates or checking work.
- Rainy days are underrated. An exterior painter who cannot work outside is often at a desk.
Seasons matter too. Exterior work runs through the warmer, drier months, so owners buy equipment, hire and plan their marketing before it starts. The season runs longer in Texas than in Illinois, so pace your outreach by state.
How do you work the list, step by step?
- Browse free. Open the residential painter hub or filter in Find Leads by state and data quality. Searching needs no account.
- Check each record's quality score before you unlock it, and start with the strongest.
- Unlock 50 a day free. A free account unlocks 50 contacts a day, which covers the whole list in a little over a week.
- Read the website before you dial, where there is one, to see whether the firm does interiors, exteriors, cabinets or new builds.
- Call early, log every answer, and set a callback before the next busy season.
To take all 388 into a dialer or CRM at once, Pro costs $9.99 a month for unlimited unlocks and CSV export, and you can try Pro free for 7 days. If you add email to the follow-up, follow CAN-SPAM, and see the cold email guide for structure. To build a larger contractor list around this one, read how to build a B2B lead list.
Frequently asked questions
How many residential painter contacts does LeadQuasar have?
388 residential painting businesses in the United States. 367 include a phone number and 110 a business email address.
Can I buy homeowner painting leads here?
No. LeadQuasar lists businesses, not homeowners. A painter can use it to find trade partners, subcontractors and the businesses that refer painting work, such as property managers and real estate agents.
Which states have the most residential painters?
Texas, Illinois and California, in that order. Each has its own state page, and records elsewhere are on the national hub.
Browse residential painter leads free, then create a free account to unlock 50 contacts a day.
