Joe Deschamps Plumbing & Heating

Nine permitted jobs in three years, 109 over the life of the business — and not one customer review anywhere. Joe Deschamps Plumbing & Heating is a one-person shop at 25 Stevens St in Methuen, run by Joseph Deschamps, and its whole visible history is written in building permits rather than star ratings. The work those permits describe is bread-and-butter residential plumbing and gas: bathroom and kitchen fixture swaps, water heater replacements, sink and dishwasher lines, piping for new construction. BuildZoom files the company under HVAC and sheet metal work, but the jobs on file read as plumbing. BBB lists it plainly as a plumber. On tenure, the company's BBB file puts the start date at January 2001 — 25 years — though BBB opened that file only in 2017 and says outright it lacks enough information to rate the business. It is not BBB accredited, and no complaints are published against it either. What to ask about is the licence. BuildZoom shows a Massachusetts plumbing licence numbered 3333, but it prints that same number four times under two different licence types with expiry dates six years apart, and stamps every one of them "License Not Verified." That is the directory's bookkeeping, not a credential — ask for the licence in hand and check it against the state Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters before work starts. The BuildZoom score of 98 is worth understanding too: it is built from permit history, not from anyone's opinion of the work. Nobody has published a review of this business. For a homeowner, that makes this a call worth making only with references gathered directly. A quarter-century of permits pulled across Methuen, Lexington, Merrimac, Burlington and Danvers says the business is real and working; it says nothing yet about how the finished job looks or how the customer was treated. Ask for two recent local references and confirm the licence number yourself.