R. K. Mechanical

R. K. Mechanical's paper trail stops two decades ago. The three permits BuildZoom holds for the Swampscott company are a 2006 gas and plumbing job on Manet Road in Chestnut Hill and two plumbing permits in Peabody from 2001 and 2002. BuildZoom flags the profile with an alert and scores it 0, saying it has no active license on file and that this does not rank in the top 50% of Massachusetts contractors. The Massachusetts plumber license the site lists for the business, #12540, shows as inactive, and BuildZoom says the state e-licensing board recorded it as cancelled at one point. A Massachusetts HVAC license carrying that same number, 12540-SM-J1, is active in the state registry — but the registry's holder of record is Alexis Hung, a different name from this business, so it should not be read as the company's own credential. Start any call with licensing: ask what current Massachusetts license the company holds and in whose name it sits, then check it with the state yourself. And because the documented work here ends in 2006, ask for references from jobs done this decade.