Skill Pro Services Plumbing & Gas-Fitting

Skill Pro Services is one licensed plumber and his phone. Joe — Joseph Green on the state licence — runs it as a sole proprietorship out of 460 Boston Road in Billerica, and the company says he does the work himself, with no dispatchers or answering service in between. The jobs are the everyday residential kind: water heaters, fixtures, drains, piping, and natural gas appliance hookups. The credential holds up. Massachusetts plumbing licence 11482-PL-M is active and registered to Joseph Green — the same number printed on the company's own site. Its BBB page shows an A+ with no complaints or government actions, though the business is not BBB accredited. The written history is thin. In April 2025, a neighbor answering a Billerica Nextdoor post about a kitchen-sink leak told the asker to call or text Joe at Skill Pro Services — an unprompted referral from someone with nothing to sell, which counts for something, but it is one comment and no posted customer reviews sit beside it. BuildZoom credits the business with 125 permitted projects, 17 of them in the past three years; that same list holds roofing permits in Boston and Dorchester and electrical work in Danvers, which a one-person plumbing shop would not have pulled, so the count is loose. Two things to sort out on the call. BuildZoom's profile carries an alert reading "no active license on file" and says it could not verify the licence — the state registry says otherwise, and the registry is the one that counts. And the tenure story comes in two versions: the site describes a third-generation business and forty-plus years of the owner's experience, while the BBB dates this business to December 2016. For a leaking valve, a dead water heater, or a gas line for a new range around Billerica, this is a licensed local plumber who answers his own phone. Ask for two or three recent local references before handing over anything bigger.