Michael N. Capeless

385 permits. That is the striking number on Michael N. Capeless, a Woburn plumber whose paper trail is one of the longest you will find on a one-name shop — 46 of those jobs pulled in the last three years, and 39 of the recent ones under $5,000. This is the everyday-repair end of the trade: water heaters, gas runs, fixture work, the jobs that take a morning rather than a month. What is missing is the other half of the picture. No customer has written a review anywhere; BuildZoom has received none at all. The 109 score on its page, which puts him in the top 5% of Massachusetts licensed contractors, is built from permit volume and history, not from anyone's opinion of the work. It tells you he is busy and consistently permitted, not that homeowners were happy. The licence block needs sorting out with the state before you read anything into it. BuildZoom prints nine records across seven types, every one headed "License Not Verified": plumber, plumbing business, gas fitter and master gas fitter numbers with expiries running from May 2016 to May 2026, a cancelled sheet metal record, and number 15851 shown at once as an active state plumber licence and as cancelled City of Newton plumbing and heater registrations. A sensible call for routine plumbing and gas work around Woburn if you do your own diligence: ask for the current licence numbers and check them against the Commonwealth's registry, and ask for two or three recent customer references, since there is nothing written to go on.