Peter Sakalis

Nearly every homeowner who wrote about Peter Sakalis had the same problem: a water heater. Working out of 70 Howard Street in Norwood under the name Poseidon Plumbing & Heating, he turns up in review after review as the plumber people call when the tank goes, and the through-line is speed. A homeowner writing in November 2024 laid out the whole sequence: Sakalis came by around 9 AM, gave a verbal quote, went and got the heater, and had hot water running by noon. A 2019 customer whose heater started leaking late one evening said the emergency call was finished inside two hours. The jobs run bigger than swaps, too. A May 2020 review described a chimney-vented heater replaced with a power-vent unit on the far side of the house, which meant new gas lines, new water lines and two days of work. The other thing customers kept coming back to, through 2019 and 2020, was tidiness: arrived when he said, did what he said, left no mess. That block of praise is real, and it is also old. Twenty-three of the twenty-six written accounts predate 2021, so the most specific material describes how he worked five and six years ago. What breaks the pattern is a one-star from December 2024. That customer described staff — office, manager and technician alike — as consistently disrespectful and unprofessional, with hostility reaching the point of involving law enforcement to have them removed from the property. It is the only complaint among the twenty-six reviews, and it is also the most recent thing anyone wrote. Angi and HomeAdvisor both publish 4.8 from 26 ratings, which is the same review set carried on both sites rather than two independent ones; BuildZoom shows a single 5.0. For a residential water-heater or gas-line job, the history behind him is specific and consistent. Before booking, get the scope and the total in writing rather than as a verbal quote, and settle who is pulling the permit.