Local Plumbing & Heating

Local Plumbing & Heating is Andrew's Arlington-based plumbing operation, and what stands out across 55 reviews since 2022 — every one of them five stars — is how often people describe him showing up on short notice: a furnace failing on a Sunday morning, a pipe bursting overnight, a water heater giving out the morning of New Year's Eve. The work itself ranges from routine to genuinely hard. In a 2022 review, one customer described Andrew replumbing an entire 1920s house — new drain and vent lines for a kitchen, two bathrooms, a washer, and a tankless water heater, done to code with PEX-A tubing. In a 2025 review, another described him pulling a stove out of the way to reach a stripped shower valve through a kitchen wall rather than tearing up the tile. More recently, he's rerouted a forced hot water heating loop around a slab leak without breaking up the concrete floor. Several customers are on their second, third, or sixth job with him, and pricing comes up again and again as fair: in a 2025 review, one client said his estimate came in well under what another company had already misquoted them, and in another, a customer said what started as a small leak turned into a bigger repair without the price creeping up to match. Recent months keep the same pattern — seven five-star reviews with zero complaints, jobs handled quickly and explained clearly before and after. His Massachusetts plumbing license is active, verified with the state. There isn't much to flag going in — the record here is unusually consistent, with no complaints across four sources and four years. The practical thing worth knowing is that this is a small, in-demand operation built around one lead plumber, so working around his schedule during busy stretches is worth planning for.