Green Tech Plumbing & Heating

Green Tech Plumbing & Heating runs a busy, wide-ranging operation out of Somerville — reviews come in from Cambridge, Medford, Charlestown, Malden, South Boston, even as far as Natick — and the same two names, Dave (also written David) and Hector, turn up constantly as the technicians people ask for by name. The through-line in hundreds of reviews is speed: a water heater replaced within hours of a Sunday-morning call, a gas leak found and fixed the same day no other plumbing company could get out, a mini-split fixed within an hour during a heat-wave AC failure, a no-heat call at night handled in 30 minutes with the part already on the truck. Some of the specific work goes beyond routine. In a 2022 review, a shower-valve leak that "many people could not figure out or did not want to deal with" got solved through persistence and a staged approach that started with the cheapest fix and escalated only when needed. In a 2021 review, a gas smell traced to a newly installed kitchen floor got tracked down with a leak detector and fixed on the spot, including two additional leaking valves found along the way. The recurring issue worth knowing about before calling is pricing, and it isn't a one-off. Across 2023 through 2026, a string of reviews describe flat-rate charges that felt out of proportion to the work: $1,200 to swap a part available for $48 at a hardware store (2023), a $975–$1,275 quote for a basic toilet install with no cost breakdown beyond "the iPad says $975" (2025), a $475 charge for a water-pressure issue the customer said wasn't actually fixed, a $300–$600 toilet quote that became $575 plus a $100 fee for what a reviewer called the simplest possible snake job, and a series of $100 "booking fees" charged across repeat visits for one unresolved water heater. One recent review describes paying $100 to diagnose an AC issue, then $300 more for maintenance, only for the system to fail again days later with no response to calls or texts. None of this is the majority of the record — the volume of fast, positive, detail-rich reviews is large and consistent across years — but the pricing pattern recurs often enough, and independently enough, that it's worth asking for an itemized quote and a firm number before work starts, especially on anything beyond a quick same-day fix.