Thus a person with expertise in working with lead was first known as a Plumbarius which was later shortened to plumber.
Plumbers have lots of nicknames. Pipey is one you hear often. Mario is occasionally thrown about by other tradies. Super Mario, if you're any good with a spanner.
The oldest evidence of a plumbing system is the discovery of copper water pipes in palace ruins of India's Indus River Valley. These pipes date all the back to 4000-3000 B.C. In addition, earthen plumbing pipes dating around 2700 B.C. have been uncovered in the Indus Valley's ancient urban settlement.
It's during this age that the word “Plumber” came to be: derived from the Latin word 'plumbum', meaning lead (as in lead pipes). The word plumber gradually came to mean a person who installs pipes. So you can thank the Romans for the word's origin!
More than 1000 years ago, the Romans built water channels that carried water from the mountains into the city, which distributed it through underground supply lines made of lead. That is where the term 'Plumbing' originated, as 'Plumus' in Latin means Lead.
The word "plumber" is derived from the Latin word plumbum, which means lead. Years ago, pipes were made from lead, so those who worked with pipes became known as "plumbers."
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In the Roman era, workman who dealt with drain pipes and building the baths that civilization enjoyed, worked with lead or “plumbum”. Thus, they were considered experts with lead were called “Plumbarius”. This evolved into the terms we know today: “plumbers” and “plumbing.”
In 1826, Isaiah Rogers, an architect, designed the indoor plumbing system for his hotel, The Tremont Hotel in Boston. The indoor plumbing made Tremont Hotel among the best in the U.S. The hotel had eight closets on its ground floor.
Using the phrase “plumbing in the Middle Ages” is a bit of a misnomer. Homes in this time period didn't make use of anything we would commonly identify as plumbing. Some cities did utilize sewers, but for the most part, waste was simply tossed out of windows.
Sask Polytech alumn wins Guinness World Record for being the world's oldest plumber. Even though he's 92-years-old, Lorne Figley is proud to be doing what he loves. In fact, Lorne has been the owner and operator of his own heating and plumbing business in Saskatoon for more than 65 years.
Because it had water, it became known as the water closet. Somehow the name stuck, and plumbers continue to refer to a toilet as a water closet. That's what the “WC” imprinted on most toilets stands for.
tradie (plural tradies) (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A tradesman, a tradesperson.
The person who fixes pipes and other water supply fittings in a house or any other building is called a plumber.
Just as drainpipes remove water and waste from your home, the plumbing vent pipe—also known as a plumbing air vent—prevents sewer gases from entering the home and allows wastewater gases and odors to escape through the plumbing vent stack on the roof of your home.
A P-trap is a plumbing fixture that has several purposes. It traps debris that has drained from the sink and prevents it from forming a clog deep within the plumbing system, and to stops sewer gases from passing into the home.
A spigot fits inside a socket, so it is the same size around as regular pipe. When you need to attach a fitting to another fitting, you use a spigot end. In their function, sockets are the female and spigots are the male. Spigot fittings are often called street fittings.
Aussie Word of the Week
A dunny diver is a plumber, those stalwart tradies who install and repair piping, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances in connection with the water supply and drainage systems.
The bog. One of the most commonly known and albeit, cruder terms has to be the “bog”. To simply put it, the term “bog” comes from quite a literal sense back in 1789 from the 'boghouse', which is British slang meaning to defecate.
THE LOO. The 'loo' is very common in the UK & Ireland, and is a safe and polite way to say toilet.
Ancient Rome's lead plumbing was an architectural marvel, connecting the expansive republic and its vast population to a steady water supply brought in through aqueducts and flushing waste out through cavernous sewers (like the Cloaca Maxima, above).
Toilet (Latin: latrina) Roman toilets or public latrines were stone or wooden bench seats positioned over a sewer.