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Plumbers in Red Bank, NJ

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Looking for a Plumber in the Monmouth Coast? Here’s What I’d Want to Know

Nobody goes looking for a plumber because they suddenly have a free afternoon and thought it sounded fun. Usually something is leaking, clogged, making a weird noise or producing water somewhere water absolutely should not be.

If I were looking for a plumber in the Monmouth Coast, my first question would be pretty basic: Who actually works here? Not who bought the biggest Google ad. Not who has the fanciest website. Who regularly serves homeowners in this area and handles the kind of job I have.

Then I’d want to know what they actually do. A plumber who is great for a water heater replacement may not be the first call for a backed-up sewer line. Some companies focus heavily on leaks and everyday plumbing repairs. Others handle water treatment, boilers, drain cleaning, sewer lines or larger plumbing projects.

I’d also want to know whether they take smaller jobs. Sometimes you do not need a bathroom renovation. You need somebody to fix the toilet, replace a valve, figure out why the water pressure suddenly stinks or stop the mystery drip that is slowly driving you insane.

Emergency service matters too. If a pipe bursts at 9 p.m. on a Saturday, “Monday through Friday, 8 to 4” becomes fairly important information. We looked at what each company actually publishes about emergency and after-hours service rather than assuming every plumber who answers the phone is available 24/7.

Then there is the whole question of “local.” To me, local does not necessarily mean the company has an office three miles from my house. It means they actually work in my town, will come out for the job and know the area. A great plumber in the next town over is still pretty local when there is water coming through the ceiling.

I also want to know who is behind the company. New Jersey plumbing businesses operate under a Master Plumber license held by a named individual. That does not tell you whether someone will do beautiful work or show up exactly at 8:03 a.m. It does give you something concrete to check instead of relying on the words “licensed and insured” on a website.

That is why we included the license information businesses publish and checked it against the state record when we could. We also show when information is not published or when we could not match it. That is not a judgment on the company. It is simply the information we were able to check.

You will also see specialties, location information and published emergency service in the guide below. The idea is not to tell you there is one “best plumber” for every homeowner in the Monmouth Coast. There usually isn’t. The best call depends on whether you have a leaking pipe, a dead water heater, a clogged sewer line or a much bigger project on your hands.

So start with the problem you actually need solved. Then use the guide below to narrow down who serves your area, who handles that type of work and what we were able to check about the business behind the name. That feels a lot more useful to me than scrolling through 14 nearly identical websites that all promise “quality service.”

The Guide: Plumbers in Red Bank, NJ

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New Jersey licenses plumbing to a named person. Every company that repairs a burst pipe, replaces a water heater or reworks a bathroom in this state works under a Master Plumber license held by an individual, registered with the State Board of Examiners of Master Plumbers, and searchable by anyone in about ninety seconds.

The state also requires that the number appear in the company’s advertising. Under N.J.A.C. 13:32-3.1(c), all advertising by a licensed master plumber must carry the plumber’s name, the New Jersey business address, and the words “Plumbing license number” or “Plumbing Lic. #” followed by the number.

Most companies serving these towns do not publish it. This guide reports, for every company, exactly what it publishes about its own license and exactly what the state record returns when that number is run. Where a company publishes nothing, the guide says that too — and says nothing further about it.

How We Selected These Plumbers

This guide covers Red Bank, Fair Haven, Rumson, Little Silver, Shrewsbury Borough, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright and Middletown Township (Lincroft, Navesink, Locust).

A company appears here if it performs residential plumbing work for homeowners in those towns, and if it says so itself — by naming one of them on its own website, or by holding a state registration at an address inside one of them.

The license is not a condition of entry. It is the first column, and a blank in it is not a mark against a company. Several of the shops on this page have served these towns for generations and publish no license number anywhere. Every qualifying company is listed, and the column reports what each one publishes and what the state record returns.

Six companies meet the test. They are listed alphabetically.

About This Guide

This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Companies appear here because they meet the criterion described above — they perform residential plumbing work for homeowners in the towns this guide covers. That is a test, not a judgment, and it is the only route onto this page. No company can pay to be included in this guide, to be listed higher, or to change what the comparison table says about it. Companies are listed alphabetically, and every detail in the table was verified against each company’s own website and against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee record in September 2026.

Everything under the heading that begins this guide is governed by the rules above, on every guide we publish. Where a sponsor’s message appears above that heading, it is paid for and labelled, and it buys nothing in the guide. Garden State Circle is supported by the businesses that participate in it. Participation pays for our ongoing work: keeping a business’s entry accurate, re-checking its record, and publishing a page of its own details that the business maintains. There is no paid placement in this guide. Participation does not buy a place here, a position here, or anything the comparison table says. Every detail here was verified on the date shown on this page.

Garden State Circle is published in New Jersey by Tiffany and Jake Slowinski and covers Red Bank, Fair Haven, Rumson, Little Silver, Shrewsbury Borough, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright and Middletown Township (Lincroft, Navesink, Locust). Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.

How to Read the License Column

New Jersey issues more than one kind of plumbing license, and they are not interchangeable.

Master Plumber is the contractor’s license. A master plumber may hold out to the public, take contracts and qualify a business. Every plumbing company operating lawfully in New Jersey works under one, held by a named individual.

Journeyman Plumber is a license to do the work, not to sell it. A journeyman plumber is genuinely licensed by the state and is not qualified to contract in their own name. A company described only as employing “licensed plumbers” has not told you which of the two it means.

The column reports state licensure on the date shown, and nothing else. It is not a rating, not a measure of quality, and not a statement about insurance. A number prints only where a single state record matches; where more than one person shares a name, the guide says so and prints no number.

Three phrases appear in the column and each means one thing. Not published means we read the company’s website and the fact is not on it. Not found by us means we searched the state record and did not find a match. Neither is a statement about the company.

Plumbers Serving Red Bank

Listed alphabetically. Verified September 2026.

Company Town Master plumber of record New Jersey license, checked September 2026 Emergency service, as published Known for
Brown’s Heating, Cooling & Plumbing Red Bank James D’Annunzio Publishes NJ Master Plumber, James D’Annunzio, lic. # 36BI01277900 “24 hours 7 days a week” Three generations in Red Bank; water heaters, plumbing and HVAC
First Degree Plumbing Fair Haven Not published Master Plumber lic # 11263 Not published Tankless water heaters, winterisation, outdoor plumbing
Garon T Plumbing, Heating & AC Red Bank Not published Publishes Plumbing Lic. #13784 “Available 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week” Same-day appointments, gas lines, water heaters
Hancher & Ellison Plumbing & Heating Little Silver Not published Not found by us Not published Personalised residential plumbing repair
Risitano Plumbing LLC Red Bank Not published Not published “Emergency services available when possible” Residential repair, fixtures, boilers
Stewart’s Plumbing & Heating Fair Haven Chad Watson Publishes NJSPL #12969 Not published Residential diagnostics and quick repairs

Checked against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Master Plumbers licensee search.

The Companies

Brown’s Heating, Cooling & Plumbing

Brown’s is at 176 West Front Street in Red Bank, having moved from Little Silver and before that Shrewsbury, and names three generations of the Brown family on its own site. It is the only company on this page that publishes the license the way the state rule describes it — the credential, the holder’s name and the number together: “NJ Master Plumber, James D’Annunzio NJ lic. # 36BI01277900.” It also publishes an HVAC contractor license and a home improvement registration, and it states availability 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

First Degree Plumbing

First Degree works from Willow Street in Fair Haven and names Fair Haven, Little Silver, Rumson, Red Bank and Ocean Township among the towns it serves. Its published work covers tankless water heaters, winterisation and outdoor plumbing. It publishes an HVACR license and a home improvement registration; no plumbing license number appears on the site.

Garon T Plumbing, Heating & AC

Garon T works from 54 Broad Street, Unit 200 in Red Bank, with a second location in Brick Township, and names ten staff on its own site. It publishes Plumbing Lic. #13784 alongside HVAC and electrical licenses, and states availability 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Its published work covers same-day appointments, gas line diagnostics and water heater replacement.

Hancher & Ellison Plumbing & Heating

Hancher & Ellison works from Branch Avenue in Little Silver and is known locally for personalised residential plumbing repair. The company publishes no website and no license number, and no state record has been matched to it.

Risitano Plumbing LLC

Risitano Plumbing works from Red Bank across Monmouth, Ocean and Middlesex counties. Its published work covers residential repair, fixture installation and boiler service. Its emergency wording is more careful than most on this page: emergency services are available when possible. No license number appears on the site.

Stewart’s Plumbing & Heating

Stewart’s Plumbing & Heating works from Locust Avenue in Fair Haven and names Chad Watson on its own site. It publishes its license as NJSPL #12969. Its published work covers residential diagnostics and quick repairs.

Common Questions

What is the difference between a master plumber and a journeyman plumber in New Jersey?
A master plumber holds the contractor’s license: they may advertise to the public, take contracts and qualify a business. A journeyman plumber is licensed to perform plumbing work but not to contract in their own name. Both are licensed by the state. A company that describes its people only as “licensed plumbers” has not said which it means.

Is a plumbing company required to publish its license number?
Yes. N.J.A.C. 13:32-3.1 requires the licensed master plumber’s name, New Jersey business address and license number to appear in all advertising, on business correspondence and invoices, and on both sides of every commercial vehicle used in the work. The rule also makes anyone whose name or number appears in an advertisement personally responsible for its content.

What does it mean when a plumber’s advertising says part of the work may be performed by subcontractors?
It means the state required them to say it. Under N.J.A.C. 13:32-3.1(e), a plumbing contractor who subcontracts out more than a third of a year’s work must state in all advertising: “A substantial part of the work which we undertake may be performed by independent licensed plumbing subcontractors.” The absence of that sentence is not evidence of anything — a company may simply be under the threshold — but where it appears, it is there because the rule put it there.

Which office issues my plumbing permit?
Not always the one in your town. Rumson, Fair Haven and Little Silver share a single office in Rumson, and Little Silver is two steps — zoning approval in Little Silver first, then permitting in Rumson. The table below has the offices for the towns this guide covers.

Who Governs Plumbing Work in Red Bank, NJ

Two state agencies sit behind residential plumbing work in New Jersey. The Division of Consumer Affairs, through the State Board of Examiners of Master Plumbers, issues and renews the license in this guide’s table; a master plumber license is renewed every two years. The Department of Community Affairs, Division of Codes and Standards administers the Uniform Construction Code, whose plumbing subcode governs the work itself. New Jersey adopted the 2024 editions of the model codes on August 17, 2026, according to the Division’s current codes table.

Permits and inspections are municipal.

Municipality Construction permit office, as the town names it Phone Construction Official, as published Hours and location, as published
Borough of Monmouth Beach Construction Department (732) 229-2204 ext. 1004 Steve J. Winters, CPM, CFM — Tue and Thu by appointment 18 Willow Avenue
Boroughs of Rumson, Fair Haven and Little Silver Building & Construction Office — one office for all three boroughs. Fair Haven regionalised into Rumson’s office in June 2007; Little Silver’s permits are issued here after zoning approval from Little Silver (732) 842-3022 Nicholas A. Fabiano Mon–Fri 8:00am–4:00pm · 80 East River Road, Rumson
Borough of Little Silver — zoning only Planning & Zoning Office — zoning approval comes from here first, then permitting at Rumson (732) 842-0261 — Mon–Wed 9:00am–4:00pm, Thu 9:00am–7:00pm, Fri 8:00am–12:00pm · 480 Prospect Avenue
Borough of Red Bank Building Department (732) 530-2760 Anthony Neibert, Construction Code Official Mon–Fri 8:00am–4:00pm · 90 Monmouth Street, third floor

Offices read September 2026.

Fee schedules are adopted by ordinance and change. Requirements are interpreted by the town’s own construction office, not by us. We publish what the borough published, with the date we checked it — confirm with the construction office before you rely on it.

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Corrections

Things change. A license is renewed under a different holder, a company moves, a phone number is retired, a business closes or opens a new office.

If anything on this page is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Email admin@gardenstatecircle.com. Corrections are made whether or not a business participates in Garden State Circle, and there is no charge for one.

If your plumbing company is not on this page and you believe it should be, email the same address. The test is the one described at the top: you perform residential plumbing work for homeowners in one of the towns this guide covers, and you say so on your own website or hold a state registration at an address in one of them.

Additional Resources

NJ Division of Consumer Affairs license verification

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