1Boston Energy

Every one of the 74 ratings 1Boston Energy has collected on Thumbtack is a five — a clean sweep across 118 hires and 165 projects, with Top Pro badges in 2022 and 2023. The work is Boston-area heating and cooling with a distinct oil-heat streak: burner service, oil tank service and installation, fuel delivery, gas and oil heating, hot water, and central AC repair and installation. The company says it runs three employees, has been in business five years, brings more than 20 years of experience through its technician Theodore Brantley, and has worked in 9,000 homes — its own account of itself. What customers actually write about is speed, and one name keeps surfacing: Theo. A Winthrop homeowner writing in January 2025 described him driving to Woburn for a part, coming back to install it past 7:30 in the evening, then stopping by the next day to confirm the heat was holding. A December 2024 customer said the phone rang seconds after the request went in and the problem was gone within the hour. This past July, someone with a dead AC called the work thorough and the response quick. Price is the thing to settle first. That July 2026 customer put it plainly — "Price seems high but it's fixed and that is what is most important" — and Thumbtack publishes the numbers: $185 an hour weekdays from 8am to 4pm, $238.25 for the first hour after 4pm, then $92.50 per half hour. An after-hours no-heat call adds up quickly. All of this praise sits on a single platform. Thumbtack also lists an EPA 608 certification and describes the technician as state licensed — those are the platform's own entries, not confirmations. For an urgent oil-burner or AC call around Boston and Winthrop, the written history runs one direction; agree the rate before the visit starts.