William T. Harrington

Sixty-nine permits, and sixty of them within a few miles of his own front door. William T. Harrington is a Methuen plumber whose work stays close to home — the permit trail runs through Methuen almost exclusively, with occasional jobs out toward Lowell and Sterling. The work itself is the everyday backbone of the trade rather than showpiece renovation: bathroom and kitchen replumbs, boiler and water-heater replacements, gas piping, the odd pool heater. He also lists septic systems and fire sprinkler work. Permits from 2018 through 2023 carry both residential and a handful of commercial addresses, so this is a working one-man operation, not a showroom. What people who hired him wrote is the thin part. Three reviews sit on his BuildZoom page, all five stars, and they run from 2014 to 2018 — a dated record with nothing written since. Three unanimous accounts across one directory is real, but it is not the kind of history that supports a confident number, and the rating here is held down accordingly. The BuildZoom score of 0 on the same page is calculated from licence and permit records rather than anything a customer said; it is not a verdict on his work. The licence is the thing to settle before he starts. BuildZoom lists two Massachusetts records for him, #13779 as a plumber and #26757 with no type given, and marks both "Active" — while also flagging both "License Not Verified" and printing a banner on the same page reading "No active license on file." One of those entries carries an expiration the site last saw in May 2026, the other May 2016. That is a directory contradicting itself, not the state speaking. For a Methuen homeowner who wants someone with a long, documented local track record on ordinary plumbing and gas work, the permit history is the substantive argument in his favour. Ask him for his current plumbing and gasfitting licence number and check it against the Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, and ask for a recent reference or two — the written record simply stops in 2018.