A P Plumbing

A P Plumbing is a one-person shop out of Medford — Al Parziale has run it as a sole proprietorship since 2009, and Massachusetts's own registry confirms his plumbing license is active. BBB gives the business an A+ grade with zero complaints on file, and it's been going for 17 years. Reviewers across HomeAdvisor, Angi and Porch put it around 4.6 stars from roughly 90 ratings each. The specifics that repeat are speed and price: in a 2021 review, a customer needing a new boiler said Al removed the old one and had a replacement installed in two days, cheaper than competing quotes; another 2021 review describes a gas-piping job for a condo's washer/dryer line completed, permitted and inspected two weeks before other contractors said they could even start. Most of the written record dates to 2020-2022 rather than the last few months, so treat those specifics as history — a 2022 review, for instance, describes him staying until a water heater job was fully finished and hauling away the old unit. Not every account is glowing. A 2021 review described a $795 repair the customer called outrageous after hiring AP out of desperation during an active leak, and another from the same year described being rescheduled three times for a water heater install before Al arrived hours late on the appointed day. Get a clear price and arrival window in writing before the job starts — pricing and scheduling are the two things that show up in the handful of critical reviews on file. A P Plumbing suits homeowners with a straightforward plumbing or heating repair — a water heater, a boiler, a gas line — who want the owner himself doing the work and are comfortable working directly with a one-man operation.