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Plumbers or Plumbing is the professional term for a craftsman who worked metal objects and manufactures. The plumber or Spengler processed sheets to components in construction or merchandise.
In large parts of southern Germany (especially in old Bavaria), in Switzerland and Austria Spengler is the official name for the craft of the plumber.
The profession is a classic male domain. 2010 the proportion of women was not at training and professional practice in the DACH countries about 2.3 percent.
The plumber is colloquially often wrongly referred to as plumbers, as this was the same profession earlier. Today is the official name of that profession in Germany plant mechanic for sanitary, heating and air conditioning. The rule of thumb: Anything before the extraction point, edit the installer.
The term plumbing was probably transformed from the older Klemperer, Klamperer, Upper German guitarist, Klampferer. Klempern means "hammer sheet" cleats.
The term Spengler goes back to one of the original activities of craftsmen making clasps and hinges.
The handling and processing of metals has Plumbing Home a long tradition. In the metal processing activities, the job titles suggest:
The terms plumbers and Spengler have replaced the old names tinsmith and Spangemacher (through various linguistic detours).
Plumbers built earlier metal field and powder bottles and other vessels while
Tinsmiths with sheet metal working - as now.
In European languages, there are respectively similar designations, for example ferblantier, zingueur or couvreur in France, sheetmetal worker in the English language, plåtslagare in Sweden and blikkenslager (occasionally kobber- og blikkenslager) in Norway. All names include the term "sheet", French even zingueur the material "zinc".
Plumbers are regionally different names:
Plumbing in much of northern and central Germany.
Spengler in large parts of southern Germany, Hesse, Switzerland, Austria and South Tyrol.
Plumbers in parts of Baden-Württemberg and Franconia; also in southern Vogtland and southern West Erzgebirge and in North Bairischen. [1]
More rarely, metal bats Tinsmiths or tinsmith.
The body Plumbers belongs to automotive, commercial and rehabilitated the body damage to vehicle bodies.
The plumbing includes the processing of thin sheet of iron or non-ferrous metals (eg zinc, copper, aluminum, lead) for the production of roofing, roof drainage and ventilation systems, formerly bottles and other containers and housewares.
The task of the plumber is mainly the cladding of roofs, facades and chimneys with metal sheets and the installation of gutters. He manufactures components needed partly even by hand or machine and brings them to buildings. Other tasks include the creation and assembly of components that is made of metal profiles, sheets, and plastics for pipes, ducts and equipment of ventilation, as well as the maintenance and repair of plumbing and aquaculture products. [2]
A special form is the Galanteriespenglerei (-klempnerei) which manufactures tin ornaments in construction (about weather vanes and gables) and is already in the direction of the craft. Today the job description also includes the Zierklempnerei.
Plumber, plumbers and insulation plumber apply in Germany as of shortage of skilled workers and are on the positive list for foreign skilled workers from non-EU countries. [3]
Seaming pliers
Shears (left, right, figures, round hole Pass, Berlin shears ...)
Pliers such as seaming pliers (straight, cranked, angled), needle nose pliers, flat nose pliers, forceps Deck
various iron as iron scarf, crimping irons, gutter heeled
various hammers, especially mallet and hammer tail, but especially so-called "driving hammers". The latter are hammers of iron with a spherical head, for "buzz" - ie to stretch the sheet - are used; they are necessary, especially for the preparation of dishes, bowls, pots and hemispheres.
