First Class Plumbing

First Class Plumbing & Heating has run out of 20 Jewett St in Quincy since 1998, according to its own site, with David A. DiBona listed as president. It's a member of the Quincy Chamber of Commerce and describes itself as a plumbing, heating, and cooling outfit covering Quincy, the rest of Greater Boston, and the South Shore. Its Massachusetts Master Plumber license is active, and the Better Business Bureau has it accredited at an A+ since 2003 — a credential that predates most of what shows up about the company online. Written customer reviews are harder to find: the most recent, from this January, describes a same-day fix on a leaking exterior pipe with the pricing explained up front before the work started. Quincy's own permit records back up a longer history behind that one review — more than 100 plumbing permits pulled over the years totaling roughly $214,300 in work, the kind of steady volume that never shows up in a star rating. It's also OSHA 10-hour and NFPA hot-work certified, and holds a Baxi certification for servicing European combi boiler systems — equipment that turns up in older Quincy-area homes and can stump plumbers who don't work on it regularly. What's thinner is an independent review trail: outside BBB and a scatter of small directories, there isn't a large, current sample to check that one recent review against. For a routine leak or an older heating system, the combination of an active license, a two-decade BBB record, and specialty boiler certification clears a reasonable bar — just ask directly about current turnaround time, since the public review count is too small to gauge consistency on its own.