Ralph The Plumber LLC

Ralph The Plumber LLC is a Hanson, Massachusetts plumbing company that South Shore homeowners call when something has just gone wrong — and the thing they write about, over and over, is how fast it gets fixed. The licence checks out at the source: Massachusetts master plumber licence 16054-PL-M is held by Ralph Codio of Hanson and was active on the state register when checked on 12 August 2026. Google publishes 4.9 stars from 148 ratings, and the review history runs from 2021 to 2026 with eleven reviews in the last six months alone. The response times in those reviews are unusually specific. A July 2026 customer with a failed Symmons shower valve had him on site in 90 minutes, and noted that he tried to repair the existing valve before replacing it. A June 2026 caller with a pressure problem had him there inside an hour and was charged less than the original quote. Another was there within 20 minutes to hook up a replacement commercial gas stove for a restaurant. Water heaters recur: one homeowner had a leaking heater shut down and drained within the hour and a new one running the same day. The work itself spreads well beyond emergencies — whole-house water filtration installs, a high-efficiency combi boiler swapped into a tight space, a bathroom renovation repiped from scratch, an oil-to-gas conversion with a tankless heater, cracked garage pipes, gas ranges and disposals. Reviewers name the crew as well as the owner: Pierre and Johnny turn up in accounts as often as Ralph does, and several describe both men working the same job. One dissenting account is worth reading before you book. In June 2025 a Brighton apartment customer was quoted $2,800 to change a single kitchen faucet, declined, got the whole job — faucet, disposal and shower trim — quoted elsewhere the same day for $800, and also described friction over parking and attitude on the visit. It is the only complaint of its kind on file, and it is about a city apartment rather than the South Shore towns the company centres on, but it is a real data point on pricing for small jobs outside its home area. For an urgent failure on the South Shore — no hot water, a leaking heater, a dead shower valve — the record here is about as consistent as these get. Ask for the price in writing before work starts, especially for a small job outside their usual towns.