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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.
 
Can't think of a good one yet but are electricians called sparks now? that annoys me it was sparky at one time?
 
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!!
 
Yeah we call them sparks now, or self-indulgent, arrogant, over charging pig dogs for short.
 
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?"
 
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.
 
Pipe monkey is semi decent.

Carpenter = Chippy

Don't know about decoraters?
 
This is a long time ago BTW Phil. I'm not living with ma and pa these days!! LOL. Got kids of my own.
 
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!
 
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Pipe butcher

Pipe monkey

and then all the stuff I can't put down on here as it is rated PG
 
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"
 
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!
 
"Pipe maintenance Manager" ...now that sounds good!

or not so good "Sewerologist" !

(got those off Internet.)
 
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 :)
 
"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:
 
Phil said:
Can't think of a good one yet but are electricians called sparks now? that annoys me it was sparky at one time?
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At one time 'bright as a spark' referred to a clever individual.

Doesn't apply to electricians nowadays though :)
 
Well, if it's me they're referring to then it's:

Perfect

[cough]
 
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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Wrong trade anyway, we should have been mechanics £86 / 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?
 
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