Talk:plumber

"One who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, glass or plastic pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas or drainage..."

The materials mentioned above could be revised. I think that copper is the most common material for water pipes here in Sweden, and water pipes made from lead are probably rare because of the risk for lead-poisoning?

Best Regards Lars Melin

Water pipes made from lead are indeed rare these days for that reason, but they were not in the past, and there is a school of history which argues that the Roman Empire fell because of lead pipes: the Romans had plumbers, too – and indeed the word "plumber" literally means "lead-worker".

There is a need in this article for some modern strongly-linked metaphorical uses of the word to be covered, eg in the financial markets and in secret intelligence (according to Le Carré, anyway!). Deipnosophista (talk) 09:04, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

• I've added the sense of a person who fixes "leaks" of information. SemperBlotto (talk) 09:10, 26 February 2015 (UTC)