H.B. Plumbing & Heating, Inc.

H.B. Plumbing & Heating has been at the same Dorchester address since 1980 — 46 years, by the BBB's count — and it is still a one-person shop. The Greater Boston Plumbing Contractors Association lists it at 37 Callender Street with Hilliard Baker as president and owner, doing plumbing, heating and gas service installations. What the business actually does shows up best in its permit record rather than in reviews. BuildZoom samples nine jobs, all residential: a stove replacement and gas-line retest in Revere in December 2023, two combi-boiler installations on Newman Street in Revere in 2021, a basement water heater and gas dryer with a bathroom demolition in 2019, water heaters and fixtures at a Waltham storefront in 2018, and a shower-and-tub renovation in Milton in 2018. That is a working plumber's list — boilers, water heaters, gas lines — spread across Revere, Milton, Waltham and Boston. Nobody has written a review anywhere. BBB is Not Rated for lack of information, BuildZoom has none, and no Google profile exists for the business, so there is no rating here. Two things to check before you call. The corporate form is muddled across sources: BBB records a sole proprietorship while the company's own name and its association listing both say incorporated in Massachusetts in 1980. And BBB's profile still carries a note that mail sent to the firm in June 1998 came back undeliverable — old, but worth confirming the address and phone are current when you make contact. For a Dorchester homeowner wanting a boiler, water heater or gas line done by a long-established local plumber, this is a reasonable call. Ask for the master plumber's licence number and check it against the state Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters yourself, since no licence number is published anywhere here.