Shaun P. Parsons

Two hundred and twenty-six permits. That is the shape of Shaun P. Parsons — a Methuen plumber working out of 3 Fulton St whose footprint is written in town permit books rather than review pages, with the trade name Parsons Plumbing & Heating attached to it on BuildZoom. The work is bread-and-butter residential plumbing: repiping bathrooms and kitchens, swapping toilets, sinks, tubs and dishwashers, gas piping for stoves and fireplaces, water heaters. Sixteen of those permits fall in the last three years, mostly in Danvers, Beverly, Methuen, Burlington and West Newbury, and the typical job is a small one — around $2,750. BuildZoom also lists sewer laterals and septic systems among the services. What is missing is the customer side. BuildZoom carries no reviews for him at all, so there is no homeowner voice here to weigh, and the BuildZoom score of 0 attached to the profile is derived from permit and licence records rather than from anyone's experience — read it as a filing status, not as a verdict on the work. The licensing picture is the thing to sort out before you call. BuildZoom flags a Quality Alert reading 'No active license on file', and the four licence records it prints do not agree with each other: a Massachusetts plumber record #12465 marked active but carrying a May 2024 expiration, a second Massachusetts record #23775 with a May 2016 expiration, and that same number 12465 listed twice more as Newton city registrations — Plumbing Contractor and Heater Contractor — that Newton says were at one point cancelled. None of those is a verification; they are BuildZoom's own listings, and we did not confirm any of them against the state. So: a working local plumber with a long permit history and small, ordinary jobs, and no customer reviews to go on. Before hiring, ask him directly for his current Massachusetts plumbing licence number and check it yourself with the state Board of Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, and ask for two or three recent local references.