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Plumbers in Somerville and Hillsborough, NJ: What the State Record Says

Plumbers in Somerville and Hillsborough, NJ: What the State Record Says
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Looking for a Plumber in Somerville? 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 Somerville, 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 Somerville. 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 Somerville and Hillsborough, 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 fifteen companies here publish it, and six 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 two municipalities: the Borough of Somerville and Hillsborough Township.

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 shops in these towns publish no license number anywhere. Every qualifying company is listed, and the column reports what each one publishes and what the state record returns.

Fifteen companies meet the test, and one more appears in a second section below. They are listed alphabetically. Some are shops in these two towns; some are larger operations in neighbouring Bridgewater, Raritan and Bound Brook that name Somerville or Hillsborough 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 Somerville and Hillsborough. 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.

Four 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. Blocked means the company’s website could not be read at all, and that is a statement about our access, not about the company. None of them is a statement about the business.

Plumbers Serving Somerville and Hillsborough

Listed alphabetically. Verified September 2026.

Company Town Master plumber of record New Jersey license, checked September 2026 Emergency service, as published Known for
Benson Plumbing Somerville Not published Not found by us Not published Residential repair and corroded sewer pipe replacement
Call The Plumber Hillsborough Not published Not found by us “Have an emergency? Call now” Tankless water heaters, emergency pipe repair, sewer lines
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
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; drain cleaning and water heaters
Izzy’s Plumbing & Heating Middlesex Israel Moalam Master Plumber · 36BI01235900 · active “Book anytime, 24/7”; Saturdays emergency only Drain cleanouts, heat pump water heaters, mini-splits
Jeffrey Burke Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Bound Brook Jeffrey P Burke Master Plumber · 36BI00860800 · active “24/7 emergency services” · “24-hour emergency service” Sewer backups and tankless water heater installation
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
Mueller Plumbing & HVAC Hillsborough Not published Not published “24/7 EMERGENCY SERVICE — THE MANAGEMENT TEAM ANSWERS ALL CALLS” Water heater installation and sump pumps
New Era Plumbing Not published Not published Not published Not published Routine maintenance, piping repair, bathroom plumbing
Paul M. Noll & Son Hillsborough Not published Not found by us Not published Plumbing, electrical and home remodelling combined
Service Experts North New Jersey Hillsborough Not published License #36BI01359800 24/7 emergency service Large-scale plumbing and HVAC
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

Benson Plumbing

Benson Plumbing works from East Cliff Street in Somerville and handles residential plumbing repair and corroded sewer pipe replacement. The company publishes no website of its own and no license number, and no state record has been matched to it.

Call The Plumber

Call The Plumber is at 28 Sherwood Close in Hillsborough and covers central New Jersey. Its published work covers tankless water heaters, emergency pipe repair and sewer lines, and it publishes a dedicated emergency number. No license number appears on its site.

Copperhead Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical

Copperhead is at 681 East Main Street in neighbouring Bridgewater and lists more than eighty municipalities across six counties, including this market. 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 Hillsborough among the towns it serves, along with Bridgewater, Branchburg, Raritan, Warren and Bedminster. 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 — name, number and town all matching. It advertises 24/7 emergency service.

Good Tidings Plumbing Heating Cooling

Good Tidings Plumbing Heating Cooling works from 1225 Westfield Avenue in Clark and lists Somerville, Hillsborough, Manville and Raritan 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, minutes from Somerville, and has operated since 1969 across 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 unusually specific: emergency services after 5:00pm.

Izzy’s Plumbing & Heating

Izzy’s Plumbing & Heating is at 744B Lincoln Boulevard in Middlesex, with a Raritan presence, and serves Somerville and the surrounding towns. 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.

Jeffrey Burke Plumbing, Heating & Cooling

Jeffrey Burke Plumbing, Heating & Cooling is at 418 Talmadge Avenue in 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.

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 plainly that its phones are answered around the clock by its own team rather than an answering service.

Mueller Plumbing & HVAC

Mueller Plumbing & HVAC is at 216 US Highway 206, Suite 19, in Hillsborough and publishes residential plumbing and HVAC work, water heater installation and sump pumps. Its emergency claim is more specific than most: the management team answers all calls, day or night. No license number appears on its site.

New Era Plumbing

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

Paul M. Noll & Son

Paul M. Noll & Son works from New Amwell Road in Hillsborough and serves Hillsborough and the surrounding area. It is one of the few companies in this market combining plumbing, electrical work and home remodelling. No license number appears on its site, and no state record has been matched to it.

Service Experts North New Jersey

Service Experts North New Jersey works from 178 US Highway 206 in Hillsborough and is the largest operation on this page by review volume. Its published work covers plumbing and HVAC at scale, with 24/7 emergency service. No license number appears on the pages read.

Tritanti Plumbing and Heating

Tritanti Plumbing and Heating works from Raritan and names Somerville on its own site, along with Bridgewater, Branchburg, Manville, Green Brook, Bound Brook, South Bound Brook and Flemington. 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 Somerville and Hillsborough 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 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 company below does that work in these towns without publishing a master plumber of record.

All Jersey Plumbing and Sewer

All Jersey Plumbing and Sewer works from Stryker Lane in Hillsborough. Its published work is drain and sewer specific: hydro jetting, sewer line excavation and emergency repair. Its website could not be read when this guide was built — the license and service-area entries for this company are blocked rather than absent, and that is a fact about our access, not about the business. It will be re-checked.

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 Somerville and Hillsborough?
Each municipality runs its own office, and permits and inspections are handled locally rather than by the state. Somerville states the sequence on its own site: you often need a zoning permit before you can get a construction permit. Hillsborough’s permits page says to check first with its Zoning Department before applying. Both offices 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 Somerville and Hillsborough 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 Somerville and Hillsborough, 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. Both towns run their own office, and neither calls it the same thing.

Municipality Construction permit office Phone Official, as published Hours, as published
Hillsborough Township Building Department, also called the Construction Office, 379 South Branch Road (908) 369-4313 Not published Mon–Fri 8:00am–4:30pm
Somerville Borough Community Development Department — Building Division, 25 West End Avenue (908) 725-2300 ext. 1963 David Myers, Construction Official Mon–Fri 8:30am–4:30pm

Offices read September 2026.

The two towns organise this differently, and the difference matters if you are calling. In Somerville the permit desk sits inside Community Development, and Code Enforcement there means property maintenance under the Fire Inspector — not construction permits. Hillsborough runs a Building Department, also referred to as the Construction Office, and does not publish the name of its Construction Official. Somerville publishes its zoning contact separately and states that a zoning permit often comes before a construction permit; Hillsborough’s permits page says the same in different words and does not link the department it names.

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 Somerville or Hillsborough, 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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Additional Resources

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