R E Coakley Plumbing & Heating

R.E. Coakley Plumbing and Heating is a one-man plumbing business at 40 Lincoln St in Medway, run by Robert Coakley. Its Better Business Bureau file records it as a sole proprietorship with one employee that started trading on 1 January 1978, which makes it one of the longest-running plumbing names in the town. What customers have written is short but consistent. In a May 2022 review a homeowner described leaving a message, getting a quick call back, and a van that turned up stocked with what was needed to solve the problem in a single visit, at a price they called very reasonable. A second May 2022 reviewer described the same pattern - quick to call back, honest, reasonably priced - and said they would use RE Coakley for all their plumbing from then on. Two things are worth checking before you call. Google shows 4.2 stars from 10 ratings, but only those two review bodies are retrievable and both are from 2022. And in January 2026 a neighbour on Nextdoor, trying to trace a plumber who had worked for Coakley, wrote that Coakley seems to be out of business although its Facebook page is still up. If you want a long-established Medway plumber for a straightforward repair, this is a name with decades behind it - but confirm the business is still taking work before you plan around it, and confirm the current Massachusetts plumbing licence with the state Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, which is the authority BBB points to for this trade.