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Microbore dad always calls me a shyt house engineer :)

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spanner bashers , plumbs ,fitters are what i have been called but when i walk through site i tend to announce make way for the superior trade
 
I think PIPEMAN sounds good, but that doesn't cover women, pipewoman doesn't sound so good.

It is relevant because virtually all work involves pipes, be it water, gas, lead, plastic (spit), soil, waste, flexis (spit). copper or iron.
 
Just thought of a new word - - - OMNIS (or perhaps spell it omnees so that the other trades know how to pronounce it).

This is because a proper plumber is multiskilled, so as well as plumbing, gas, oil etc, also has to do electrical work, bricking, plastering, woodworking, carpet relaying, etc (i'm sure you can add to this list).

It is also genderless.
 
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i did my aprentiship on a west end building firm the plumber got to do anything that wasnt wood paint or electrical
slating roofing metal windows glazing brackets steels lifts dumb waiters cooker hoods drains water we used to push huge ladders round on a barrow rig our own cradles and bosuns chairs i loved it
 
Back in the days of CB Radio, a local plumbers "Handle" was "Pipebender" which was quite appropriate for his trade, and was recognised by this.
 
Back in the days of CB Radio, a local plumbers "Handle" was "Pipebender" which was quite appropriate for his trade, and was recognised by this.


I think that is the best suggestion yet, only drawback is that it is longer than plumber!
 
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Wrong trade anyway, we should have been mechanics ÂŁ86 / hour. :) :)
 
How about just BENDER?

Brickies, chippies, spreads, sparks, and benders.

Think it will catch on?
 
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if its a briccie, chippy & sparky,......then shirley it must be a splashy, sploshy, drippy, dribbly, pipey, wrenchy, bendy, cocky, notchy, clippy, fluxy, stacky, tappy, sinky, stinky !, drainy, brainy (!!), kind of name.........

Personally, having given this some considerable thought......I think "tappy", seeing as there is generally one form or another at the start and end of everything we do..... no?
 
How many would own up to being a 'Richard facilitator'

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I quite like coppersmith but apparently it exists as the name for someone who makes tat from old copper.

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As you've introduced a Spanish link Kay-Jay, how about an International flavor?

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I have four different names for them.

1) Cash customers
2) Good payers
3) Late payers
4) Bad debtors

:)
 
Bricklayers = brickies

Electricians = sparks

Plasterers = spreads

Customers = custards

Plumbers = Whinging gits.


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Bricklayers = brickies

Electricians = sparks

Plasterers = spreads

Customers = custards

Plumbers = Whinging gits.


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Hes only jealous cos he can't get in the 3000 + club which has now been removed when admin and dan couldn't get in pmsl
 
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