T A Martin Plumbing & Heating

T A Martin Plumbing & Heating is a one-man shop: its BBB page names owner Trent Martin as the sole proprietor and only employee. The company describes itself as a family-owned plumbing and heating business covering the Metro South, South Shore and Cape Cod areas, and says it has been at it since 1990 — though its BBB file lists a start date of 2000, and the two directories can't agree on whether home base is Holbrook or Hanson. What stands in for a review history here is a paper trail. Nobody has posted a customer review on its BBB, Porch, or BuildZoom pages, so there's no firsthand word on how jobs actually go. What the directories do show: an A+ grade from the BBB with accreditation going back to 2014, and building permits for plumbing and gas work — heating system replacements, bathroom rough-ins, water heater jobs — pulled in Randolph, Braintree, North Easton, Newton, Hanson, Wareham and Burlington between 2002 and 2022. One flag worth running down: BuildZoom scores the company a zero because the local Newton license it tracks (#25829, plumbing and heating contractor) expired in May 2016 and is listed as cancelled. That's a municipal record, not the state plumbing license, but it means you should ask for a current Massachusetts license number and check it with the state board before any work starts. This is the profile of a small, long-running solo operation rather than a shop with a public reputation you can read up on. If you want an owner-run plumber for heating or plumbing work south of Boston, it may fit — but with no reviews anywhere, ask for a couple of recent local references and confirm the license is current before booking.