Advantage III Plumbing and Heating

Advantage III Plumbing & Heating works out of 562 Shirley St in Winthrop — three people by the Better Business Bureau's count, with Joseph Ciampa III as owner and a start date of January 2012. What they actually do shows up clearest in the permit trail: 27 permitted jobs, eleven of them in the last three years, and the descriptions repeat — bathroom and kitchen fixtures, gas piping and water heaters, spread across Malden, Revere, Marblehead and Danvers. The company describes itself as family owned and residential, working the greater Boston area, taking emergency calls and speaking Spanish. Two things are worth pinning down before you call. BuildZoom lists Massachusetts licence #188244 for the company as expired since July 2023 and, at one point, cancelled — and it prints that same number under two different licence types, HVAC/Mechanical Contractor in one place and Home Improvement Contractor in another. Ask for the current licence number and check it yourself with the state plumbing and gas fitting board before work starts. The tenure claims don't line up either: the BBB start date works out to fourteen years, while HomeAdvisor shows a fifteen-year badge next to a blurb saying over twelve. Nobody has written a review on the BBB, Angi, HomeAdvisor, Porch or BuildZoom pages, so there is no customer history to weigh and no rating to give here. The A+ BBB grade is the only third-party mark on the business, and it sits next to a line saying they are not BBB accredited.