What are plumbers called?

[Tap dancer]

Bricklayers = brickies

Electricians = sparks

Plasterers = spreads

Customers = custards

Plumbers = ?????

I don't think I've ever heard a slang word, is there one?

If not, can you suggest one?

Pipey springs to my mind.

 

[Dannypipe]

Pipe stranglars (for pipe fitters who use stilsons and steel threaded pipe).

Cowboys for the rest of us.

 

[Phil]

Can't think of a good one yet but are electricians called sparks now? that annoys me it was sparky at one time?

 

[Dannypipe]

BTW Plumb is a slang word.

Plumbum is latin for lead. Pipes in roman times until recent history were lead, we got called leaders, or plumbers in English!!

 

[Dannypipe]

Yeah we call them sparks now, or self-indulgent, arrogant, over charging pig dogs for short.

 

[Phil]

BTW Plumb is a slang word.

Plumbum is latin for lead. Pipes in roman times until recent history were lead, we got called leaders, or plumbers in English!!

Google? :drunk:

 

[dontknowitall]

Leaky?

Wet?

(Speak for yourself dkia ...)

Best I was called was a phone call from an eccentric old lady (lovely person as it turned out): "Is that the boilerman? Can you come and do my tap?"

 

[Dannypipe]

My sparky just talks in acronims now. He's off to to do a PR, but thinks there are some dodgy JB's which won't pass the IS and he'll have to issue a RR to the owner....and so on. We just take the mick out of him and go............O............K.

 

[Phil]

Pipe monkey is semi decent.

Carpenter = Chippy

Don't know about decoraters?

 

[Dannypipe]

Google? :drunk:

College. First thing tutor told me. When I got home and told my dad who's a plumber, he just rolled his eyes.

 

[Dannypipe]

This is a long time ago BTW Phil. I'm not living with ma and pa these days!! LOL. Got kids of my own.

 

[Dotty]

Years ago when I was a clerk of works on BT I was scowling at a decorator slapping paint on a wall when he turned round to me.

"Here Clerky," he said "They call you Clerky, you got brickies, sparks and chippies. What do the call decorators?"

I looked at the state of his work and gave him a four word answer!

 

[SimonG]

Pipe butcher

Pipe monkey

and then all the stuff I can't put down on here as it is rated PG

 

[Phil]

Boilerman?

When I turn up at a job and a kid answers the door I tell them to tell their mum the "........mans here"

Whatever the problem is like "shower tray mans here" or the "guttering man"

 

[Orry Clayton]

Dave, John, Fred, Bob.... they have many names.

 

[REDSAW]

wealthy tax dodger!.....apparently


sweaty..

 

[Rob Sale]

poo pipe mechanics...

 

[Best]

As a lot of plumbers are actually heating guys, I would suggest "Heating Engineer" or just "Engineer" or when advertising - " ...qualified Technician" etc. After all, other occupations often unskilled have fancy titles! What really irritates me is when people assume you are uneducated because you are a plumber!

 

[Best]

"Pipe maintenance Manager" ...now that sounds good!

or not so good "Sewerologist" !

(got those off Internet.)

 

[JCplumb]

I've always called decorators PDs, On site I've heard plumbers called bum cracks, I get that one but to be fair it goes for pretty much all trades except PDs who have those nice romper suits on 🙂

 

[Dannypipe]

I'm an artist using non ferris materials.

 

[Best]

"Fitters" might be appropriate, or for those plastic plumbers, - "Push Fitters"!

I remember about 30years ago being told of an old plumber in his late 90s - ( so he would have been practically from the Victorian era), who still did the odd wee tap washer job. He would have obviously used lead pipes in his day, but also they did all the guttering on houses in those bygone days. He walked past us one day & his neighbour went to introduce us as plumbers to him. He just kept walking & shouted back, " they are not plumbers nowadays, just fitters!"
Guess he had a point! Wonder what he would have thought of plastic? :smile:

 

[Best]

I'm an artist using non ferris materials.

Drag or Con? :grin:

 

[mountainman]

Can't think of a good one yet but are electricians called sparks now? that annoys me it was sparky at one time?

At one time 'bright as a spark' referred to a clever individual.

Doesn't apply to electricians nowadays though 🙂

 

[nicro3]

Deaf and dumbers