Joseph T. Grattan

289 permits is a long paper trail for a one-name plumbing shop. BuildZoom's permit records put Joseph T. Grattan, working out of 96 Indian Spring in Quincy, at 289 permitted projects all-time, 14 of them in the past three years — five in 2025, eight in 2024, one in 2023 — at a typical permit value near $4,000. The work reads as plumbing and gas fitting straight down the line: bath and kitchen rough-ins, basement piping, on-demand and direct-vent water heaters, a high-efficiency boiler replacement, new gas mains, commercial kitchen and bar fit-outs, gasfitting for pool heaters. The towns cluster south and west of Boston — Milton, Randolph, Braintree, Brookline, Hingham, Norwell. BuildZoom scores him 103, which it places in the top 10% of the 139,240 Massachusetts contractors it tracks. What nobody has written down is what it was like to hire him. BuildZoom reports no reviews at all for this contractor, and that is why there is no rating here — a deep permit history says someone works steadily and pulls permits properly, not that the customers were happy. Settle the licence before you call. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts plumber's licence, #13574, but flags that entry 'License Not Verified' and says the number carried a May 2026 expiration when it last looked; a second Massachusetts entry, #25591, is likewise unverified, with a last-seen expiration of May 2016. Ask to see the current licence and check it against the state's e-licensing board yourself. The BuildZoom profile is unclaimed, so nothing on it was put there by him. For gas and plumbing work around Milton, Quincy and the South Shore towns, the permit trail is real, varied and recent. Ask for two or three references from the past year before booking.