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What are plumbers called?


Depends on how badly wrong the job has gone!

;-)
 
When we did a big underfloor heating job we got called "the uncoiler & the bender"

Painters = brushands
 
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.
 
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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.
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I think that is the best suggestion yet, only drawback is that it is longer than plumber!
 
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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?
 
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