Carl-Louis & Co., Inc.

Carl-Louis & Co. has been plumbing out of Dorchester since 1996, by the Better Business Bureau's account — a five-person shop, with Louis Penheiro listed as its owner. Its Massachusetts plumbing licence, 1294-PL-C, is active on the state registry. What it carries beyond that is state certification: the Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office lists the company as an active Minority Business Enterprise and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise under certificate 19820005, the MBE side carrying an expiry of 2027-02-01 — the credentials public agencies and general contractors ask for on bid work. It also turns up on a Massachusetts Gaming Commission page among certified plumbing, pipe fitting and heating firms. The trade press noticed it once: a March 2015 item in ACHR News named The Carl-Louis Co. of Dorchester a $25,000 grand-prize winner. For a Boston-area homeowner, this is a licensed plumbing and heating outfit three decades into the work. Call with the job in hand — a boiler, a repipe, a bathroom rough-in — and ask for a written scope and price, proof of insurance, and a couple of recent local references before anyone starts.