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Plumbers in Franklin Township, Manville and North Plainfield, NJ

Plumbers in Franklin Township, Manville and North Plainfield, NJ
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Looking for a Plumber in Franklin Township, Manville and North Plainfield? 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 Franklin Township, Manville and North Plainfield, 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 Franklin Township, Manville and North Plainfield. 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 Franklin Township, Manville and North Plainfield, 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.

Eight of the thirteen 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: Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield and South Bound Brook, all in Somerset County.

Franklin Township is the complicated one, and it is worth a paragraph. It is the largest municipality in Somerset County by area and it has no single downtown. It is a collection of villages — Somerset, Franklin Park, Middlebush, East Millstone, Griggstown, Blackwells Mills, Zarephath, Six Mile Run, Ten Mile Run, Franklin Center, East Franklin and part of Kingston — and most addresses inside it carry the postal name Somerset rather than Franklin. A plumber whose van says Somerset is very likely a Franklin Township plumber. A company that lists “Franklin Park” and “Middlebush” as separate service areas is listing two parts of the same township.

Two more names that catch people out. There is a Franklin Township in Hunterdon County as well as this one, and their municipal websites differ by three letters; the offices listed at the bottom of this page are the Somerset County township’s. And East Millstone, a village inside Franklin Township, is not Millstone Borough and not Millstone Township in Monmouth County. Every company and every municipal record on this page was checked against which one was meant.

A company appears here if it performs residential plumbing work for homeowners in these 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. Every qualifying company is listed, and the column reports what each one publishes and what the state record returns.

Thirteen companies meet the test. They are listed alphabetically.

What This Market Looks Like

This is the most transparent plumbing market we have surveyed in New Jersey. Eight of these thirteen companies publish a plumbing license number on their own website, and every published number resolved to a live record in the state register when we ran it in September 2026. In some of the towns we cover, the figure is closer to one in four.

It is also a market with deep roots. The oldest company on this page has been working these streets since 1949, from the same building on Franklin Boulevard, and the state register carries three generations of its family name.

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 Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield and South 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 Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield and South Bound Brook

Listed alphabetically. Verified September 2026.

Company Town Master plumber of record New Jersey license, checked September 2026 Emergency service, as published Known for
Adam & Sons Plumbers Somerset Not published Not found by us Not published Residential plumbing service and repair
All A’s Plumbing Randolph Not published Not published “24/7 Emergency Service · 1 Hour Response Time” Plumbing and heating across Somerset County
Arrow Sewer & Drain Bound Brook Luis G Fanlo Master Plumber · 36BI01352100 · active “24/7 emergency plumbing” · “24 hours a day” Sewer and drain work, camera inspection, main line repair
Binsky Home Service Somerset Not published Not published “24-hour emergency service” Plumbing, heating, cooling and electrical; commercial and residential
Dolan Inc. Somerset Michael P Dolan Master Plumber · 36BI00761700 · active “24/7 emergency service” Plumbing, heating, cooling, electric and remodeling since 1949
Grok Services Plumbing Heating & Cooling Bridgewater Not published Master Plumber · 36BI01106800 · active “24/7 Emergency Services Available” Plumbing, heating and cooling across three counties
Jeffrey Burke Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Bound Brook Jeffrey P Burke Master Plumber · 36BI00860800 · active “24/7 emergency services” · “24-hour emergency service” Trenchless sewer repair and main waterline work
Jersey Plumbing Service Hillsborough Not published Master Plumber · 36BI00735900 · active “Our phones are answered 24/7 by our own team” Water treatment, sump pumps, kitchen remodels
Karlo & Brothers Plumbing Somerset Not published Not found by us Not published Residential and commercial plumbing
Milltown Plumbing and Heating Manville Not published Not found by us “emergency plumbing services available seven days a week” Residential plumbing and heating
Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water Cleanup Somerset Not published John Lucchese MP #36BI01320500 24/7 service published Drain and sewer cleaning, water cleanup
Service Professionals Union Rich Bogda Master Plumber · 36BI00989700 · active “We’ll Answer Your Call 24/7” · “24/7 emergency call-out service” Plumbing, heating, cooling, drains and electrical
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

Adam & Sons Plumbers

Adam & Sons works from Hamilton Street in the Somerset section of Franklin Township on residential plumbing service and repair. The company publishes no website and no license number, and no state record has been matched to it.

All A’s Plumbing

All A’s Plumbing works from Randolph and publishes one of the most detailed Somerset County service pages we have read — it names Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield and South Bound Brook individually, and separately names the Franklin villages of Ten Mile Run, Franklin Center and East Franklin. It advertises 24/7 emergency service with a one-hour response time and describes itself as family owned and operated for more than twenty years. No license number appears on the pages we read.

Arrow Sewer & Drain

Arrow Sewer & Drain keeps offices in Bound Brook, Middlesex Borough, South Plainfield and Basking Ridge, and its Franklin Township page names Somerset, Franklin Center, Franklin Park, Middlebush, East Millstone, Griggstown, Blackwells Mills, Kingston, Zarephath and Six Mile Run — the village-by-village list that tells you a company actually works the township rather than driving through it. It publishes its license in the full state format, NJMPL # 36BI01352100, which resolves in the state record to Luis G Fanlo, active, at a Middlesex address. It advertises 24/7 emergency plumbing.

Binsky Home Service

Binsky works from Worlds Fair Drive in the Somerset section of Franklin Township, with a second location in Ewing, and covers plumbing, heating, cooling and electrical work for both homes and commercial buildings. It publishes 24-hour emergency service and describes eighty years in business. No plumbing license number appears on the pages we read.

Dolan Inc.

Dolan — long known here as Jack Dolan & Sons — has been at 696 Franklin Boulevard in Somerset since 1949 and covers plumbing, heating, cooling, electrical work and remodeling. It publishes NJ Plumbing Lic. 7617 on its own site; the number resolves in the state record to Michael P Dolan, active, at a Somerset address — the name and the town both matching the business. It advertises 24/7 emergency service. The state register carries three generations of the family name at Somerset addresses, which is unusual and worth knowing about a firm this old.

Grok Services Plumbing Heating & Cooling

Grok Services works from Route 28 in Bridgewater and publishes a dedicated South Bound Brook service page alongside coverage of 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. The company does not name the holder, and the guide prints no name where the company has not published one. It advertises 24/7 emergency service.

Jeffrey Burke Plumbing, Heating & Cooling

Jeffrey Burke Plumbing is at 418 Talmadge Avenue in Bound Brook, directly across the Raritan from South Bound Brook, and works across Somerset County. It publishes Master Plumbing 36BI00860800 and Master HVAC 19HC00588700 on its own site; the plumbing number resolves in the state record to Jeffrey P Burke, active, at a Bound Brook address. It advertises 24-hour emergency service and specialises in trenchless sewer repair.

Jersey Plumbing Service

Jersey Plumbing Service works from Hillsborough and covers Somerset, Morris, Hunterdon, Essex and Union counties. It publishes Master Plumber #7359 on its own site; the number returns an active Master Plumber license in the state record. The company does not name the holder. It states that its phones are answered around the clock by its own team rather than an answering service.

Karlo & Brothers Plumbing

Karlo & Brothers works from South Dover Avenue in the Somerset section of Franklin Township on residential and commercial plumbing. The company publishes no license number, and no state record has been matched to it.

Milltown Plumbing and Heating

Milltown Plumbing and Heating works from Huff Avenue in Manville on residential plumbing and heating. It publishes emergency plumbing service seven days a week and lists Sunday as twenty-four-hour emergencies only. No license number appears on its site, and no state record has been matched to it.

Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water Cleanup

Roto-Rooter operates a branch on Veronica Avenue in the Somerset section of Franklin Township and publishes service pages for Somerset, Manville, South Bound Brook, North Plainfield and Franklin Park. It is a national franchise; different branches publish different state credentials, and no single license number is published for the branch serving these towns. It advertises 24/7 service.

Service Professionals

Service Professionals is headquartered at 923 Rahway Avenue in Union, with a second location in Little Falls, and its service area names Somerset County alongside eleven other New Jersey counties. It publishes its plumbing license in the full state format, 36BI00989700, alongside HVAC and electrical numbers; the plumbing number resolves in the state record to Richard S Bogda, active, at a Union address. The company’s founder is named on the site as Rich Bogda, who states he started the business more than thirty years ago. It advertises 24/7 call answering.

Vanguard Service NJ

Vanguard Service NJ is based in Scotch Plains and its Somerset County service page names every municipality in the county, these four included. 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 states that “every job is performed by our own licensed technicians. No subcontractors.”

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.

My address says Somerset. Which town do I actually live in?
Somerset is a postal name, not a municipality. If your mail says Somerset, NJ 08873, you almost certainly live in Franklin Township, and Franklin Township is who issues your plumbing permit and sends your inspector. The same is true of Franklin Park, Middlebush, East Millstone, Griggstown, Blackwells Mills, Zarephath and Six Mile Run — all villages inside Franklin Township. This matters when you are pulling a permit and when you are checking whether a contractor actually covers you.

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 of the four runs its own construction office, and they are listed below. Several of them share officials with neighbouring towns, which is normal in Somerset County and worth knowing because it can mean limited counter hours.

Who Governs Plumbing Work in Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield and South Bound Brook, 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 Phone Officials, as published Hours, as published
Franklin Township (Somerset) Construction Code Department, 475 DeMott Lane, Somerset 732-873-7283 Not published on the pages read Not published on the pages read
Manville Construction Office, Borough Hall, 325 North Main Street 908-725-9478 Frank LaGuarina, Construction Official · Stephen Rodzinak, Deputy Building Official and Plumbing Official · Peter Bayone, Electrical · Ed Allatt, Fire · Thomas F. Boylan, Director of Code Enforcement Not published on the pages read
North Plainfield Construction Department, 263 Somerset Street 908-769-2918 Dan Niro, Construction Official, Building Subcode and Plumbing Subcode · John Elichko, Electrical · Lenny Young, Fire · Patti Bender, Control Person Mon–Fri 8:00am–4:30pm
South Bound Brook Borough Hall, 2 Main Street, Suite 101 732-356-0258 Mike Krupsky, Building Construction Officer Not published on the pages read

Offices read September 4, 2026.

North Plainfield’s Construction Official is also its Plumbing Subcode Official. Dan Niro holds both roles, which means the person who issues the permit is the person responsible for the plumbing subcode. Manville publishes a separate plumbing official, Stephen Rodzinak, alongside its construction official. Franklin Township publishes an office, an address and a phone number but no names.

Several of these officials serve more than one town. Dan Niro is also the Construction Official and Plumbing Inspector for the Borough of Watchung; Frank LaGuarina is also Green Brook Township’s Construction Official; and Mike Krupsky is also Montgomery Township’s Construction Official and Plumbing Subcode Official. New Jersey requires a plumbing subcode official to hold a Master Plumber license. If the counter is closed when you call, that is usually why — ring ahead rather than driving over.

Fee schedules are adopted by ordinance and change. Requirements are interpreted by the town’s own construction office, not by us. We publish what each municipality published, with the date we checked it — confirm 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 Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield or South Bound Brook, 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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