Holland Plumbing & Heating, Inc

Thirty-four years in business, three employees, and a permit trail that has thinned to roughly one job a year. Holland Plumbing & Heating works out of 57 Southern Ave in Essex. BBB records it as established in 1992, incorporated in Massachusetts in 1998, with Timothy Holland as president and a staff of three. The permitted work is small and domestic: kitchen sinks, gas piping, bathroom jobs, one fire-damage repair — mostly in Rowley, Beverly and Danvers, and typically under $5,000 a ticket. Twenty-seven permits all told, three of them in the last three years. Its BBB grade is an A+, with no complaints on file, though the business is not BBB accredited. Neither BBB nor BuildZoom shows a single customer review, which is why there is no rating here. A clean grade at a quiet shop tells you nobody has filed against them; it does not tell you how the work went. The licence picture needs care. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts plumbing business registration, #3429, that it says ran to May 2026 — but it labels that record "not verified". Under the same number it also shows a Massachusetts gas fitter registration the state e-licensing board recorded as cancelled at some point, and a plumbing corporation record it says lapsed back in May 2016. None of that has been checked against the state registry here. This reads like a small, long-settled North Shore shop that fills its schedule by word of mouth rather than through directories. If you call, ask Tim Holland directly for the current plumbing and gas fitting licence numbers and check them yourself with the Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, and ask for two or three recent Essex-area customers you can call.