Cosentino plumbing and Heating Inc

Cosentino Plumbing and Heating works out of 121 Loring Ave in Salem and pulls permits steadily — 135 permitted jobs on file, 45 of them in the last three years — but not one customer has written about them anywhere we could find. The company describes itself as residential and light commercial plumbing, hydronic heating and gas fitting, and says it traded previously as Independent Mechanical of Salem, MA since 2003. BuildZoom lists the trades as boiler and water heater work, gas and piping, and plumbing. The permit trail is the most concrete thing here, and it reads like a bread-and-butter North Shore plumbing shop: bathroom and kitchen repipes, gas lines for ranges and fireplaces, water heaters and boilers, with the jobs clustered in Marblehead, Manchester, Beverly, Salem, Danvers, Byfield and Rowley. Typical permit value sits around $3,000, so most of it is component and repair work rather than whole-house projects. One number on that page needs reading carefully. BuildZoom gives the company a score of 108 and calls that the top 5% of Massachusetts contractors — that ranking is calculated from permit volume and licensing, not from anything a customer said. It is not a rating. BuildZoom also lists two active Massachusetts records against the name, a Plumbing Business registration numbered 4559 and a Plumber licence numbered 17037, both flagged on the page itself as 'License Not Verified'. We did not confirm either against the state registry, so treat them as the directory's entries rather than as confirmation. Who this is for: a homeowner in Marblehead, Salem or the neighbouring towns who wants a plumber with a documented local job history and is comfortable doing their own reference-checking. Ask for the current licence number and check it directly with the Commonwealth's licensing board, and ask for two or three recent customers you can call — with no written reviews anywhere, references are the only read available on how the work actually goes.