John R. Paradise

John R. Paradise is a plumber working out of Swampscott, and his Massachusetts master plumber licence, number 12025-PL-M, is active on the state register under his own name. That is worth stating up front, because the directory listing suggests otherwise. BuildZoom's profile carries an alert that no active licence is on file and marks the same number "License Not Verified", citing last-seen expiration dates of May 2024 and May 2016. The state's own record is the authority, and it says the licence is current. The work itself is well documented through building permits: 52 permitted jobs in total, 26 of them in the last three years, and the great majority filed in Marblehead. The pattern is renovation plumbing rather than emergency call-outs - installing two bathrooms and a kitchen in one unit and a kitchen and two baths in another on Summer Street, remodelling a second-floor kitchen and two full bathrooms on Hathaway Road, running complete waste and vent piping for two bathrooms plus kitchen and laundry on Brookhouse Drive. Alongside those sit the smaller jobs a working plumber picks up: water meters and backflow preventers, a mop sink, an irrigation meter, capping off piping in a former dentist's office. In Beverly he has also fitted gas insert fireplaces and replaced gas stoves. Typical permit size is around $7,000. What is missing is any customer feedback at all - no reviews are published anywhere on file - so no rating is assigned. Ask for references from recent Marblehead jobs, which is where nearly all the recent work has been.