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.