Wildcat Plumbing

Water pooling in a basement at six in the morning is the kind of call Wildcat Plumbing is built for. Across 331 Google ratings averaging 4.9, the story that repeats is speed — a leak found and fixed inside an hour, a dead water heater swapped the same morning, a stubborn drain cleared on the first visit. The Weymouth shop's Massachusetts plumber's license is active, and its BBB page is an A+. What people actually hire them for is everyday residential plumbing: drain clearing, faucet and spigot replacements, toilet swaps, water heater installation, corroded pipe repair. One technician's name, Camilo, surfaces over and over, usually attached to the same two details — the options explained before any work starts, and no mess left behind afterward. The specifics are what sell it. In March 2026 a homeowner described Justin replacing a corroded pipe and then vacuuming up 15 gallons of standing water. In February 2026 another wrote that Camilo took before-and-after photos of a tub drain repair so they could see exactly what had been done. In May 2026 someone with a burst water heater had a new unit in and running within three hours of the flood. The history runs deep — 285 reviews on file from 2022 through 2026 across six sources — and the current stretch holds: 22 reviews in the last six months, one of them negative. Pricing is the thing to pin down before the truck rolls. In June 2025 a customer wrote that the $99 service-call fee was disclosed but the hourly rate was not, and the quote to replace a disposal and faucet landed at $1,200 against $600 from a Home Depot contractor. In May 2026 another left two stars, having been told up front about the $99 fee and its credit toward the work. Neither complaint is about the workmanship — both called the plumber polite and professional — it is about learning the number after the diagnosis rather than before the visit. Wildcat is a sensible call for an urgent residential repair or a water heater that has to be replaced today, and the crew's habits — boot covers at the door, cleanup, walking you through the fix — recur too consistently across too many years to be accidental. Get the full price in writing once the tech has diagnosed the problem, and confirm what the $99 covers if you decide not to proceed.