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Plumbing Inspection in Franklin, MA

In Franklin, 20% of owner households moved in during 2018 or later — close to the middle of the towns we cover. Enough movement that inspections are routine, not enough that anybody treats them as routine.

The one-paragraph answer

In Franklin, 20% of owner-occupied homes have changed hands since 2018. Whichever side of a sale you are on, the exclusions decide what you know: a standard inspection stops at the visible plumbing and leaves the sewer lateral to a camera survey.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038.

PresalePipe is a referral service, not a contractor or a home inspector. We connect homeowners and buyers with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands. Every state page sets out who licenses plumbers there and where to check, so you can confirm before work begins. We carry out no inspections and no work, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.

When Franklin moved in

With turnover near the middle, roughly one owner in five or six arrived recently. For everyone else the last time the plumbing was examined by a third party was whenever they bought.

Owner households in Franklin	Share of all owners
Moved in 2021 or later	4%
Moved in 2018–2020	15%
Moved in 2010–2017	22%
Moved in before 2010	58%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038 (tenure by year householder moved into unit), 2023 release. Universe: 12,339 occupied housing units, of which 9,668 are owner-occupied. This counts when the CURRENT occupant moved in, so it measures recent moves as a share of the housing stock — not a rate of sales per year.

What the inspection will not cover

Gas leak testing is not part of a home inspection. The fuel shut-off gets located and described; the line itself is not tested, and no part of the report should be read as saying it was.

Source: InterNACHI Home Inspection Standards of Practice; ASHI Standard of Practice.

What it is required to cover

InterNACHI requires the location of the main water shut-off and the main fuel shut-off to be described, and whether the supply is public or private. Those are the three lines worth copying out of the report on the day you get it, because nobody looks them up until they are standing in water.

The covered list in full. Most people read the exclusions and stop; the two only mean anything against each other.

What to do about it

Read the exclusions in your own report before the findings. The findings say what was looked at; the exclusions say what you still do not know, and only one of those two lists gets attention.

The published standards settle most arguments: excluded, covered, and the separate instruction for everything past the building.

Other Massachusetts towns we route in

Melrose 14% of owners moved in since 2018
North Attleboro 20% of owners moved in since 2018
Westwood 16% of owners moved in since 2018
West Bridgewater 12% of owners moved in since 2018
Wenham 17% of owners moved in since 2018

Everywhere we route in Massachusetts

Checking a plumber in Massachusetts

Checking a credential in Massachusetts

Massachusetts licenses are issued by the Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

Inspection report in front of you?Read us the plumbing lines and nothing else — we do not want the document. We will route you to a contractor covering your area who can quote the items on it, and you are never charged by us. Report or no report, Franklin reaches a contractor through us.

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