Dave the Plumber has worked out of Dennis Port since 1988, and the one thing that keeps showing up across more than 130 Google reviews is how fast the phone gets answered — often the same day, sometimes within the hour, including nights and weekends. Founder Dave McCrossin says he came up in the trade carrying tools for his father, the late Robert E. McCrossin, who ran an oil-burner business on the Cape; the company he built is now a family operation, with two sons, Jake and Joe, working alongside him.
The everyday work covers faucets, sinks, showers and outdoor showers, sewer lines, boilers, water heaters, baseboard and radiant heat, winterization, and burst-pipe repair. Its Massachusetts plumbing license is registry-verified active, and the Better Business Bureau rates the company A+.
What separates the reviews is the emergency pattern. In a July 2025 review, a customer described Dave arriving within the hour — with his son alongside him — after a sewer ejector pump failed over a holiday weekend, even though he was already booked on another job. A January 2024 review recounts him showing up the next morning after a boiler flooded a basement overnight, and a December 2024 review describes him pumping out six inches of water and fixing a burst pipe within thirty minutes of being called. Pricing comes up as reasonable and quoted up front: in an April 2025 review, one customer said he 'was true to his word re verbal pricing over the phone.' And in a June 2025 review, a customer who'd tried two larger Chatham plumbing companies first — calling the experience 'horrible' — says Dave answered the phone and fixed the problem within the hour.
A 2022 Cape Cod Times profile described McCrossin, whose full name is David McCrossin, as a Cape character who drives a truck decorated with a giant spigot — a detail that lines up with the recurring reviewer note that he's easy to talk to and explains the work in plain terms before starting it.
The reviews on file run from 2021 into 2026, with three more landed in the last six months and none of them negative — a long, consistent stretch rather than a fresh handful. Its stated service area is Dennis Port, though the reviews describe calls answered as far as Provincetown and Chatham, so it's worth confirming your town is in range before calling. For plumbing emergencies on the Mid-Cape — a burst pipe, a dead water heater, a clog nobody else will touch — this is a small, family-run outfit with a long history of showing up fast.
