Find Plumbing Permit Info?
Sunday, December 20th, 2009 at
9:23 pm
I hired a plumber to put in a boiler and foolishly paid him in full before job was finished. All he needs to do is install a hard wired CO detector and remove my old boiler (in my back yard). Also there is a very slow leak in one of water pipes into the boiler he needs to fix.
This plumber has disappeared off the face of the earth. He was supposed to have pulled a permit for the job although I never actually saw it.
My questions are:
I live in Massachusetts. What office do I call to find out if he actually did pull permit.
What should I do to handle this other than call Better Business Bureau.
Thanks in advance.
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look in the blue pages for your local town hall number, they should be able to send you in the right direction. Then call the state licensing offices (maybe consumer affairs in Mass). If all that fails go ***** Sporting Goods and get a baseball bat.
You can go on the city, state or county website for your area and see if a permit was issued. Sometimes these agencies have ways you can find these things out online, or at least have a number where you can ask for help. Also you can find out if your contractor is licensed with the state by checking his references on the state website.
If you know where he purchased the new boiler you could give them the information you have about it (serial number etc) and they might be able to trace it back to whoever bought it .