Carriere Heating and Air Conditioning

Six decades of furnaces and boilers, and not one customer review anywhere to go with them. Carriere Heating and Air Conditioning works out of 50 Winter St in North Reading; its BBB profile lists the legal entity as Carriere, Inc., established in 1967 and incorporated in Massachusetts in 1972, with five employees and Peter Carriere as owner. What exists instead is a permit trail. BuildZoom shows 15 pulled permits between 2005 and 2022 — gas furnaces, boilers, sheet-metal and HVAC electrical work on single- and two-family homes — spread across Billerica, Methuen, Salem, Peabody, Beverly, Malden, Burlington and Roslindale. That is a heating shop's permit list, and it lines up with what both directories say the company does: heating and air conditioning service and installation, gas piping, and plumbing work. Two things to sort out before booking. BuildZoom's licence panel is not a verification — every record on it is labelled "License Not Verified," and the expiration dates BuildZoom shows have already passed, so ask Carriere for current licence numbers and check them against the state yourself. And BBB shows the business as Not Rated for lack of sufficient information: no letter grade, no reviews, no complaints and no government actions published. BuildZoom reports no reviews either, which is why its score of 94 reflects permits and licences rather than anything a customer said. If you want a long-established North Reading heating contractor and are willing to do the legwork, Carriere fits — but you would be going on the permit history and your own reference calls, not on anyone's written account of the work.