Plumbing is the work of installing, maintaining and repairing pipes.
Plumbing is a concept used in several Latin American countries to name the work that consists of installing, maintaining and repairing pipes (also known as pipes ). Through these pipes, it is possible to evacuate sewage (which carries urine and fecal matter from the bathrooms) and supply the population with drinking water (suitable for consumption by humans without posing a risk to health). health ).
In other nations, the notion of plumbing is equivalent to the idea of plumbing . In a similar sense, the worker who specializes in pipes can be called a plumber or plumber . All of these concepts have an etymological explanation: while plumbing comes from lead (due to the material that was used to solder the tubes or pipes), plumbing comes from fontana (source).
Origin of plumbing
The first pipes arose in the Roman Empire , when aqueducts were developed that brought water to palaces and sewers to evacuate waste. Only near the end of the 19th century did plumbing as we know it today begin to develop, with pipes made of iron .
Lead for soldering pipes is no longer used in almost the entire world, since the corrosion of the pipes ends up contaminating drinking water. That is why welds began to be made with steel and tin , among other options. In order to reduce costs, other materials also began to be used to make the tubes, such as PVC and copper .
Nowadays, plumbing is essential to install the pipes in a house , repair a broken pipe, solve faucet problems and repair bathroom equipment, for example.
A plumbing expert can install and repair the faucet.
The training
A plumbing course , which can be taken both remotely (thanks to the tools provided by the Internet) and in person, can open many doors at a professional level, given that there are always defects to repair and most people do not have the knowledge necessary to deal with them.
Depending on the institute, some of the most important points to cover in a plumbing course are the following:
- Leaks : when a pipe loses water due to wear or an impact, for example.
- Materials and fusions : it is not enough to have good ideas to repair a pipe, but it is necessary to know the most appropriate products for each case and the best way to use them.
- Plans and installations : A plumber must master the jargon and concepts of construction at a certain level, to be able to read a plan and isolate a problem whose root is not evident to the naked eye.
- Sewage drains : this is one of the elements that causes the most problems and generates the greatest despair, given its unpleasant characteristics.
- Kitchen plumbing : the kitchen is an essential environment in the home and also one of the most used, which causes damage more frequently. For this reason, a good professional must know your plumbing system in depth, with all the possible combinations of materials and products, to be able to act efficiently.
Plumbing in video games
Thanks to Nintendo , plumbing occupies a leading place in the video game industry, since it is the job of Mario and Luigi , two of its most important characters.
Since the 80s , these plumbers have starred in the most varied adventures, which laid the foundations for various genres, such as 2- and 3-dimensional platforms ( Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario 64 , respectively), kart racing ( Super Mario Kart ) and party ( Mario Party ), and also enriched others with new points of view, such as fighting ( Super Smash Bros. ) and RPG ( Mario RPG and the Paper Mario series).