Perricone Home Services

Perricone Home Services is a one-owner-operator plumbing and heating shop in Burlington, run by Darren Rania, a Massachusetts Master Plumber who shows up himself for nearly every call reviewers describe. The company says it's family-owned and covers Middlesex County towns including Chelmsford, Lexington, Woburn, Wilmington, Bedford, and Billerica. What shows up again and again across 170 Google reviews dating back to 2023 is how fast Darren answers a real emergency: a customer whose water heater burst and flooded a Burlington basement says he came right over and installed a new tank the same visit; another whose water went out entirely got scheduled within a few hours; a third says he came out to fix a problem on a holiday. Google shows a 5-star rating from 185 ratings, and the 41 reviews posted in the last six months include no negative ones. The jobs described go beyond quick fixes. In a review from July 2024, a customer says Darren replaced a boiler and hot water heater and, in the process, caught that the boiler had shipping damage and the water heater was a recalled model before either became a problem. A review from December 2025 describes him converting an entire house's iron pipe to PVC while keeping the customer informed on the schedule, and another from the same month says he reglazed a 1960s cast-iron tub and replaced the surrounding piping. Several customers mention calling him back for more than one job,. Pricing draws one mixed note: one reviewer called the work "expensive... but worth it", while others describe quotes as fair given rising material costs,. The company's site lists a Massachusetts Master Plumber registration number for Rania, though that comes from the company's own site rather than an independent state-registry check. For a same-day leak, a dead water heater, or a full plumbing overhaul in an older Middlesex County home, Perricone is the kind of call reviewers keep making again. Worth confirming pricing up front, since that's the one recurring wrinkle in an otherwise consistent record.