Houghton Mechanical Corp

Houghton Mechanical Corp works out of 50 Sherwood Road in Swampscott, and its own website is unusually specific about what it does: ice rinks. The company describes itself as a contractor in the ice rink industry, installing and servicing rink bed piping, ice-making refrigeration chillers, mechanical and desiccant dehumidification systems, and cooling towers, pumps and condenser water tanks. It puts its own experience at over eighteen years. That matters for anyone arriving here looking for home heating or cooling. Nothing on the company's site offers residential furnace, boiler or air-conditioning work. The directory listing that carries it does file it under sheet metal work, mechanical work and HVAC, and its three permits on record - all filed in Arlington in 2012 - are for two boilers and a water heater backflow preventer. Licensing is the other thing to check. Massachusetts refrigeration contractor licence RC-125347 is recorded as inactive, with an expiration date of 9 October 2016 and last verified inactive in February 2016, and the directory carries an alert that no active licence is on file. Those are the directory's records rather than a live registry check, but they are old enough to be worth resolving before any work is agreed. No customer reviews are published anywhere on file, so no rating is assigned. If you need rink refrigeration this is a specialist worth calling; if you need a home system, ask first whether they take residential work at all, and ask for a current licence number.