CommTank, Inc.

CommTank is the company a lot of Wakefield-area homeowners call when an oil tank is rusting, leaking, or simply old — usually swapping it for a Roth double-wall unit and hauling the failed one away. Reviewers describe the same routine again and again: a crew shows up on time, cuts the old tank apart to remove it, and has a new one running the same day or within a few hours. Its Google page carries 116 reviews stretching back to 2021, and the same few installers get named again and again (Jonathan, Marcos, Jaime among them) for walking customers through the process and leaving the site clean. In a pair of 2025 Reddit threads, Massachusetts homeowners pointed others to CommTank directly, one describing a 275-gallon steel tank swapped for a Roth replacement for a little under $4,500. The last six months brought 18 more reviews with none negative among them. Its BBB page shows an A+ rating. There's real history worth asking about before booking, though. In 2021, state regulators reported that CommTank agreed to pay up to $250,000 and close an unpermitted well to resolve alleged hazardous-waste and groundwater violations at its Wakefield headquarters. Separately, its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is listed as expired on the state registry — the company's own site lists several other credentials, including a City of Boston G-12 license, a Department of Public Safety oil-burner certificate, a hoisting-engineer license, and an underground-storage-tank operator certification, though those aren't independently verified. A handful of reviewers described real problems with the work itself: one said fumes leaked from a newly installed tank until a loose gasket was caught, and another said outdoor pipes began rusting within two months of an install. CommTank is a reasonable call for a homeowner who needs an oil tank replaced or removed and wants it done quickly — ask directly about the lapsed HIC registration and what the installation warranty covers before signing off.