Hegarty Plumbing

Hegarty Plumbing is a Quincy shop that's become a go-to for a striking number of long-term customers — several reviewers describe using owner Gerry Hegarty and his team for 20 to 25-plus years across multiple properties, both their own and family members'. The Better Business Bureau gives it an A+ and lists plumbing and HVAC as its services. The written record, 39 reviews spanning 2019 through 2026, is overwhelmingly positive and heavy on real detail: reviewers describe boilers and oil tanks from the 1960s and '80s swapped for new Burnham units with gas lines mapped out and re-run, central air and mini-split systems installed with Mass Save rebate paperwork handled for the customer, and a 2023 review recounting three of four water heaters replaced starting at 7:45 a.m. with careful attention to fitting shorter, wider tanks into the old footprint. Emergency calls come up often — Gerry answering a spigot leak the night before a family vacation, or a water heater fixed on Christmas Eve — and a 2024 Reddit thread has someone thanking him for being willing to take on an oil-to-gas steam boiler conversion at all, calling the work quick and easy. Two things are worth knowing before calling. First, two reviews stand out against the otherwise five-star record: in a 2019 review, a customer hired through an insurance claim said the owner showed up late, spent only a few minutes assessing the job, and the same-day work they'd taken time off for didn't happen as promised; separately, a 2022 review describes two unanswered attempts to reach the company at all. Second, the licensing picture on BuildZoom is a mixed bag rather than a clean one: it lists a Massachusetts plumbing business license and two sheet metal licenses as active (one BuildZoom itself verified as of November 2025), alongside a plumber license it has not independently verified, and separately reports that a Pipefitter Master license tied to the business shows as inactive, citing a state record that it was at one point cancelled. None of that is enough to outweigh two decades-plus of consistent, detailed, repeat-customer praise — but it's worth confirming which license and technician will actually be on your job, and getting a clear same-day-vs-estimate-only expectation in writing before the visit.