802 plumbers filed 2,906 plumbing permits on homes in the City of Cambridge from October 2023 to September 2026; 415 filed one in the last 12 months. The most active in the last 12 months were Joseph P Barrell (21 permits), Aaron Hanson (19) and Michael S Pann (13); busy is not the same as careful. Cambridge plumbing permits carry no filed job value, so this list compares firms on permits filed, finishing and recent activity only. Side by side: permits filed, share finished and permits in the last 12 months for each firm. Pick what you value and the list re-orders.
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Top 5 by plumbing permits filed in the last 12 months. This is volume, not quality: a busy firm is not necessarily a careful one.
The 5 ZIP codes with the most plumbing permits on homes from October 2023 to September 2026. Each opens permits by trade and the most active firms there.
02138 (1,093) 02139 (847) 02140 (635) 02141 (296) 02142 (34)
Before you move a slider, the list is in a default order built only from the permit record: how much of each firm’s record is this kind of job (weight 30), how often its permits reached completion (25), how many permits it filed in the last 12 months (15) and how quickly its permits closed (10). Each measure is ranked against the other 802 firms and pulled toward the middle when a record is short.
The order comes from the Cambridge permit file, not from reviews: 415 of 802 plumbers filed a permit in the last 12 months and 67% of their permits a year or more old were finished. Nobody pays to be listed or to move up, and there are no star ratings or reviews. The sliders and presets change the weights, and the order changes with them. How the records work in Cambridge.
We do not rate contractors. In this page’s default order, which uses only the permit record through Sep 2026, the top 3 are Joseph P Barrell (43 permits, 84% finished), Sabato Depasquale (37 permits, 86% finished) and David Johanson (13 permits). By permits filed alone, the most active is Winters Home Services with 52.
802 firms are on the list; the busiest filed 21 plumbing permits in the last 12 months and the middle firm filed 1 in the whole file. Line them up on the same public measures: permits filed and share of permits finished. Pick what matters to you and the list re-orders, for example recent activity if you need someone soon. The order comes from the permit record only, and nobody pays to be listed or to move up.
802 firms filed at least one plumbing permit on homes in the City of Cambridge from October 2023 to September 2026; 415 of them filed one in the last 12 months.
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Three you can check against this page: “How many plumbing permits have you filed in Cambridge?” (the middle firm here filed 1; 415 of 802 filed one in the last 12 months); “What does your quote include: the permit fee and the city inspection?”; “Will you pull the permit in your company’s name, and when is the final inspection?” (67% of older plumbing permits here were finished). All 10 questions and how to check each →
On this page: 802 firms filed 2,906 plumbing permits from October 2023 to September 2026, and each firm’s name opens its own permit record. Every number comes from City of Cambridge Inspectional Services permits (the city's per-type open-data permit files). To see one permit itself, search the address or permit number with the Cambridge permit office. How the records work in Cambridge →
Cambridge plumbing permits carry no filed job value, so we can’t rank plumbers by price. Get two or three written quotes; ask whether the permit fee and the city inspection are included; shortlist from the 415 firms that filed in the last 12 months. What plumbing jobs cost in New York City →
We do not rate or collect reviews. Instead each of the 802 plumbers here is shown with its permit record: 2,906 permits and the share finished. Read reviews on other sites and use this page to check them against the record. Reviews vs permit records →
Every number on this page comes from City of Cambridge Inspectional Services permits (the city's per-type open-data permit files): 802 firms filed 2,906 plumbing permits on homes in the City of Cambridge from October 2023 to September 2026, and 415 of them filed one in the last 12 months. The middle firm has 1 permit in the whole file. A short record leaves more uncertainty, and some jobs never require a permit.
No usable job value is recorded for this permit type, so no typical cost is shown. See how we compare records.
Most Cambridge plumbing permits are filed in July (113 against an average month of 100); May is the quietest (89). When each trade is busiest in Cambridge →