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Plumbers in Bridgewater, Branchburg and Raritan, NJ: What the State Record Says

Plumbers in Bridgewater, Branchburg and Raritan, NJ: What the State Record Says
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Looking for a Plumber in Bridgewater? 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 Bridgewater, 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 Bridgewater. 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 Bridgewater, Branchburg and Raritan, 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.

Nine of the fourteen companies here publish it, and five publish nothing at all. 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 four municipalities: Bridgewater (Martinsville), Branchburg, Raritan and Bound Brook.

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 established plumbing shops in these towns publish no license number anywhere, and some have no website at all. Every qualifying company is listed, and the column reports what each one publishes and what the state record returns.

Fourteen companies meet the test, and two more appear in a second section below. They are listed alphabetically. Some are shops in these towns; some are larger operations nearby that name these towns on their own service pages. The table says which is which.

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 Bridgewater (Martinsville), Branchburg, Raritan and Bound Brook. 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 Bridgewater, Branchburg and Raritan

Listed alphabetically. Verified September 2026.

Company Town Master plumber of record New Jersey license, checked September 2026 Emergency service, as published Known for
A. Rothman Plumbing and Heating Bridgewater Not published N.J.M.P.L. #9598 Not published Residential leak detection and plumbing repair
Copperhead Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical Bridgewater Not published Not published “Weekends Emergency Services Available” Plumbing, heating, cooling and electrical under one roof
Fast Lane Plumbing & Heating Somerville Wesley Bruce Lane, Jr. Master Plumber · 36BI01364600 · active “24/7 EMERGENCY SERVICE” Emergency repair, water pressure, winterization
Frank Magrosky Plumbing & Heating Branchburg Not published Not found by us Not published Residential heating and water systems
Good Tidings Plumbing Heating Cooling Clark David T McKenna Master Plumber · 36BI00863700 · active Not published Plumbing, heating and cooling across central New Jersey
Grok Services Plumbing Heating & Cooling Bridgewater Not published Master Plumber · 36BI01106800 · active “Emergency Services After 5:00 pm” · “24/7 Emergency Services Available” Operating since 1969; water heater replacement
Izzy’s Plumbing & Heating Middlesex Israel Moalam Master Plumber · 36BI01235900 · active “Book anytime, 24/7”; Saturdays emergency only Drain cleanouts, heat pump water heaters, pipe work
Jeffrey Burke Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Bound Brook Not found by us Not found by us “24/7 emergency services” · “24-hour emergency service” Trenchless sewer repair and main waterline work
New Era Plumbing Not published Not published Not published Not published Residential and commercial maintenance and fixtures
RM Plumbing and Heating Services Raritan Not published Not found by us Not published Residential diagnostics, water treatment, boiler lines
Somerset Plumbing LLC Bridgewater Not published Master Plumber · 36BI01277000 · active “We answer the phone 24/7” · “at your service day or night” Water filtration, leak repair, plumbing diagnostics
Tom Pyne Plumbing & Heating Services Bridgewater Not published Not found by us Not published General residential plumbing and heating
Tritanti Plumbing and Heating Raritan Not published License #13500, register not named Emergency services listed; hours Mon–Fri 7:30am–4:00pm, closed weekends Residential maintenance and pipe installation
Vanguard Service NJ Scotch Plains Not published Master Plumber · 36BI01334400 · active “We answer the phone 24/7” · “Available 24/7, including holidays” Plumbing and HVAC; states it uses no subcontractors

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

The Companies

A. Rothman Plumbing and Heating

A. Rothman Plumbing and Heating works from Bridgewater and handles residential leak detection and plumbing component replacement. The company publishes no website and no license number, and no state record has been matched to it.

Copperhead Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical

Copperhead is at 681 East Main Street in Bridgewater and lists Bridgewater and Raritan among more than eighty municipalities it covers across Somerset, Middlesex, Hunterdon, Morris, Monmouth and Union counties. It is one of the few companies on this page that covers plumbing, heating, cooling and electrical work under a single roof. Its site states that weekend emergency services are available. No license number appears on the site.

Fast Lane Plumbing & Heating

Fast Lane Plumbing & Heating is based in Somerville and names Bridgewater, Branchburg and Raritan among the towns it serves, along with Warren, Bedminster and Hillsborough. It publishes Plumbing Lic. #13646 on its own site; the number resolves in the state record to Wesley Bruce Lane, Jr., active, at a Somerville address. It advertises 24/7 emergency service.

Frank Magrosky Plumbing & Heating

Frank Magrosky Plumbing & Heating works from Case Road in Branchburg and handles residential heating and water systems. The company has no website. Nothing is published about who holds its license, and no state record has been matched to it.

Good Tidings Plumbing Heating Cooling

Good Tidings Plumbing Heating Cooling works from 1225 Westfield Avenue in Clark and lists Bridgewater, Branchburg, Raritan, Martinsville and Manville among more than a hundred towns in its service area. It publishes PL#36BI00863700 and HVACR #19HC00550000 on its own site; the plumbing number resolves in the state record to David T McKenna, active, at a Clark address.

Grok Services Plumbing Heating & Cooling

Grok Services is at 559 Route 28 in Bridgewater and has operated since 1969, covering Somerset, Hunterdon and Middlesex counties. It publishes NJMPL#11068 and HVAC#19HC00371600 on its own site; the plumbing number returns an active Master Plumber license in the state record. Grok does not name the holder on its site. Its stated emergency arrangement is more specific than most: emergency services after 5:00pm, alongside a 24/7 emergency claim.

Izzy’s Plumbing & Heating

Izzy’s Plumbing & Heating is at 744B Lincoln Boulevard in Middlesex and names Bridgewater and Branchburg among the towns it serves. It is the most completely documented company on this page: it publishes Master Plumbing License #36BI01235900, HVACR License #19HC00360100 and HIC License #13VH06054200, and names Israel Moalam as master plumber and owner. The state record returns that license as active in his name. Bookings are taken around the clock; Saturday work is emergency only.

Jeffrey Burke Plumbing, Heating & Cooling

Jeffrey Burke Plumbing, Heating & Cooling is at 418 Talmadge Avenue in Bound Brook, a few minutes from Bridgewater and Raritan, and works across Somerset County. It publishes Master Plumbing 36BI00860800 and Master HVAC 19HC00588700 on its own site; the HVAC number resolves in the state record to Jeffrey P Burke, active, at a Bound Brook address, and the plumbing number is not found by us in the state record. It advertises 24-hour emergency service. Its published work covers trenchless sewer repair and main supply waterline replacement.

New Era Plumbing

New Era Plumbing has served the Bridgewater area since 2020 and names Bridgewater, Raritan and Martinsville on its own site, along with Somerville, Bound Brook and a long list of towns further east. Its published work covers residential and commercial maintenance, emergency repair and fixture installation. The site publishes no street address and no license number.

RM Plumbing and Heating Services

RM Plumbing and Heating Services works from Raritan and handles residential diagnostics, water treatment and boiler line work. The company has no website. Nothing is published about who holds its license, and no state record has been matched to it.

Somerset Plumbing LLC

Somerset Plumbing works from Riverview Road in Bridgewater and publishes Master Plumbing LIC # 12770 and an HVAC license on its own site; the plumbing number returns an active Master Plumber license in the state record. The company does not name the holder on its site. Its published work covers water filtration, leak repair and plumbing diagnostics, and it states plainly that it answers the phone around the clock: “Somerset Plumbing is at your service day or night.”

Tom Pyne Plumbing & Heating Services

Tom Pyne Plumbing & Heating Services works from Bridgewater and holds a New Jersey home improvement registration at a Bridgewater address. The company has no website. Its published work covers general residential pipe and heating maintenance. Nothing is published about who holds its plumbing license.

Tritanti Plumbing and Heating

Tritanti Plumbing and Heating works from Raritan and names Bridgewater, Branchburg, Somerville, Manville, Green Brook, Bound Brook, South Bound Brook and Flemington on its own site. It lists emergency services among its offerings and publishes hours of Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 4:00pm, closed weekends. No license number appears on the site.

Vanguard Service NJ

Vanguard Service NJ is based in Scotch Plains and names Bridgewater, Branchburg and Raritan on its Somerset County service page, along with every other municipality in the county. It publishes NJ Master Plumber License: NJMPL 13344, NJ HVACR License 19HC00609600 and NJ Home Improvement License 13VH11638700; the plumbing number returns an active Master Plumber license in the state record. Vanguard does not name the holder on its site. It advertises that it answers the phone 24/7 including holidays, and states that “every job is performed by our own licensed technicians. No subcontractors.”

Drain and Sewer Specialists

Not every plumbing job needs a licensed master plumber. Drain cleaning and sewer line work are not restricted to master plumbers in New Jersey, and the two companies below do that work in these towns without publishing a master plumber of record. They are worth knowing about, and the distinction is worth knowing too.

Hercules Septic & Sewer Service, LLC

Hercules Septic & Sewer Service works from Neshanic Station in Branchburg. Its published work covers water line replacement, sewer management, bathroom additions and fixture updates. No license number appears in its listings, and no state record has been matched to it.

Sewer Doctor

Sewer Doctor works from Somerset Corporate Boulevard in Bridgewater and describes itself as servicing all of New Jersey. Its published work is sewer and drain specific: main sewer lines, camera inspection, hydro jetting, trenchless sewer repair, drain cleaning and water heater work. It advertises “24/7 emergency plumbing and sewer services every day of the year.” No license number appears on its site.

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.

Who inspects plumbing work in these towns?
Each municipality has its own construction office, and permits and inspections are handled locally rather than by the state. Bridgewater’s own page states the ordering plainly: no building inspection is made before the required electric or plumbing inspection has been approved. The offices covering this guide’s towns are listed below.

If a company is not in this guide, does that mean it is not licensed?
No. This guide lists companies that work in Bridgewater, Branchburg and Raritan and say so themselves. A company can be perfectly well licensed and simply not appear here. The guide does not publish anything about the standing of a business that is not on it, and a blank in the table is a statement about a website or about our search, never about a company.

Who Governs Plumbing Work in Bridgewater, Branchburg and Raritan, 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. Each town below runs its own office, and no two of them call it the same thing.

Municipality Construction permit office Phone Official, as published Hours, as published
Bound Brook Not found by us Not found by us Not found by us Not found by us
Branchburg Building & Code Enforcement, 1077 US Highway 202 North (908) 526-1300 ext. 147 John Tamburini, Building & Code Official 7:00am–3:30pm, Monday through Friday
Bridgewater (Martinsville) Code Enforcement (908) 725-6300 ext. 5560 John Tillotson, Construction Official Mon–Fri 9:00am–4:30pm
Raritan Construction / Planning & Zoning, 9 West Somerset Street 908-231-1300 ext. 125 Not published Mon–Fri 8:30am–4:15pm

Offices read September 2 and September 4, 2026.

The department is not called the same thing in any two of these towns. Bridgewater has no department called Construction — permits and inspections run through Code Enforcement. Branchburg calls it Building & Code Enforcement. Raritan calls it Construction / Planning & Zoning and combines it with the zoning desk. None of the three names transfers to another town, and looking for the wrong one returns nothing rather than an error.

Bridgewater also runs a separate Zoning Department at a different extension with different hours, and publishes its own list of work that needs a zoning permit — decks, patios, sheds, fences, pools, generators. A homeowner adding a deck in Bridgewater needs an answer from both offices, and neither page links to the other.

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 township published, with the date we checked it, and we link to the page it came from — 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 Bridgewater, Martinsville, Branchburg or Raritan, and you say so on your own website or hold a state registration at an address in one of those towns.

Something out of date?

This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a license, a service area, or whether they still do that trade — tell us and we will check it. Businesses listed here are welcome to write in directly.

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