Porcaro Plumbing and Heating

Porcaro Plumbing and Heating is a small, owner-run plumbing shop based in Melrose, run by a plumber named Chris. The company describes itself as locally owned and focused on quality workmanship, and on Google it holds a 5-star average from nine ratings. Reviews from 2023 and 2024, spread across three separate listing sites, keep circling back to the same thing: careful, precise work, especially a full bathroom installation that more than one write-up singles out for its attention to detail. A repeat customer who hired Chris for several different jobs — a gas hookup, a leaky drain, a sump pump — calls him responsive, flexible, and reasonably priced, and says he communicates well even when a job hits a snag. What's public is thin: nine Google ratings and a small cluster of written reviews are what's available, and none of them are newer than 2024. Some of what's out there — the description of the company's mission and values — comes only from Porcaro's own website rather than an independent source, so it reads more like marketing than verified reputation. For a straightforward job — an installation, a leak, a water heater swap — the reviews that exist are consistently positive with no complaints showing up anywhere. Given how few of them there are, it's worth asking for a couple of recent references before committing to anything bigger, like a full bathroom project.