el barrett

E.L. Barrett Company, Inc. isn't a furnace-and-AC outfit — it's a specialist in Testing, Adjusting and Balancing (TAB), the commercial HVAC discipline that checks a building's air and water systems actually perform the way an engineer designed them to. The company says it was incorporated in Quincy in 1985 and is still run by the Barrett family, with Edward L. Barrett, Jr. as owner and his son Ryan as project manager — a third-generation shop, by its own account. There isn't a customer review trail to check that story against. No ratings turned up on Google, BBB, or the usual home-services sites, and one directory listing notes flatly that none have been posted there. What does hold up independently is the license: its Massachusetts HVAC license (282-SM-B) is verified active, and the company has been carried in the Blue Book trade directory since 1987 and belongs to the Quincy Chamber of Commerce. It is not BBB Accredited, and BBB has issued no rating on the business. This reads as a fit for commercial building managers or mechanical contractors who need TAB work done on an HVAC system, not a homeowner chasing a same-day furnace repair. Worth confirming directly before hiring: recent project references, since there is no public review history to lean on here.