Robert S. Callan

Robert S. Callan is a Reading plumber with a permit trail that runs seventeen years deep — 36 permitted jobs from 2003 through 2020, spread across Essex and Middlesex counties, one of them in Methuen. Plumbing, gas piping, boilers and water heaters, septic systems and fire sprinkler work are what the profile lists. No customer has written about him. BuildZoom has received no reviews at all, which makes the 91 score on that page — top 37% of Massachusetts licensed contractors — a measure of permit history and nothing else. It says he pulled permits properly and often; it says nothing about how the work went or how he was to deal with. The licence bundle is the part to treat carefully. One number, 9414, appears under six different labels on BuildZoom — state plumber, state master plumber, two City of Newton registrations, and an electrician record marked inactive and cancelled — with two expiration dates that contradict each other, May 2026 on one entry and May 2016 on another. Every record carries BuildZoom's "License Not Verified" flag, so none of it stands as a credential. If you are in the Reading area and need plumbing or gas work, ask him directly for his current Massachusetts plumbing licence number, check it yourself against the state registry, and ask for a couple of recent job references, since the written history stops in 2020 and there is no customer account of the work.