Goyette Plumbing & Excavation

Goyette Plumbing & Excavation is a small, personally-run outfit led by Shane, who says on his Thumbtack profile that he's been in business since 2017 after learning plumbing and heating from his father. The name covers both trades literally: reviews describe everything from trenching for gas and electric lines to a plumbing job squeezed in on the same visit. The work people describe leans as much toward dirt-and-drainage jobs as classic plumbing. In a June 2026 review, a customer said Shane gave a clear price breakdown before he and his crew cleared a yard of invasive kudzu vines, roots and all. Another June 2026 review credited Shane and a second worker, Donnie, with working through a few hurdles to install an underground drainage pipe for a gutter system, finishing on time despite the setbacks. What stands out is a 2024 review describing an honest no: called in for flooding, Shane explained that a high water table meant there wasn't much that could actually fix the underlying problem, and rather than sell an expensive project he charged only for the smaller things that would help. A 2022 review described a similar pattern — digging a trench for both a gas line and an electric line, then patiently working around an electrician's and a plumber's separate schedules until the job was done. Across Thumbtack, Angi and HomeAdvisor, every rating on file is five stars, and Thumbtack marks the profile a 2023 Top Pro with a background check on record. Reviews go back only to 2022 so far — 8 in all — so it's worth asking directly about availability and how a bigger job would be scheduled, since Shane appears to run jobs personally rather than dispatching a larger crew. For excavation, trenching, drainage work and everyday plumbing around Lowell, Goyette is a small operation with a clean five-star run so far, and more than one review specifically credits Shane's honesty about what a job actually needs.