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Plumber the trade
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 Today, more and more, the companies of plumbing turn to air-conditioning. The plumbers climaticians then put on a dress of specialist in comfort and professional of environment. Their role? To install, maintain and repair the systems of air-conditioning and heating.
Attention, this speciality requires particular technical training and an additional training in mechanics, thermics, electricity and data processing.
Good namely: the companies of the BTP envisaged to recruit approximately 4.000 people in the climatic sector genius.
He works according to the plans which are provided to him, he traces the course of the drains along the walls and the partitions. He works piping while cutting tubes with desired dimensions.
He welds them the ones with the others or connects them to a heating appliance or health facilities, for example. It checks the good performance of the system and the absence of escapes.
It installs sanitary appliances, radiators, boilers at the places best adapted to their use. It ensures the adjustment and the maintenance of all these installations.
It also carries out many breakdown services and repairs in the residence of the private individuals.
The plumber generally works on a building site, with the shelter of the bad weather. According to the importance of work, he only works or in team. He often operates in physically uncomfortable postures and transports sometimes heavy loads. He can be resulted in working saturdays and certain bank holidays often in the urgency.
The plumber carries on his activity as paid in a company of plumbing and sanitary installations or building or in a company proposing various specialities: cover, heating, zinc works, medical. He can work on his account as craftsman-fitter or break-down mechanic
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The objective of the trade is to bring a service.
This service is the contribution of thermal, aeraulic comfort and the provision of drinking water under the conditions desired by the user of the room, that it are bound for the habitat, community, tertiary sector, industrialist
The plumber heating specialist installs, repairs and maintains the sanitary and thermal facilities as well as air-conditioning constructions: dwellings, offices, workshops, laboratories…
This trade requires pointed physical knowledge like that of the various fluids (water, gases, fluids medical, compressed air…) in order to dimension and arrange, in the respect of the standards and safety regulations, the networks of copper, steel, stainless, plastic or material drains of synthesis.
Starting from the plans of the architect, the plumber heating specialist determines and draws the installation to be set up.
The networks are connected to the equipment like the wash-hand basins or of the boxes of treatment of air, then it carries out the last adjustments essential to the good performance of the installation. Energy saving and the respect of the environment are major constraints during these operations.
Its field of intervention widened, and one is often well far from the traditional image of the trade.
It must from now on set up in the dwellings of the devices limiting the consumption of water and energy, while taking care of the wellbeing of its occupants, and their waitings in term of hygiene and comfort.
This autonomous and general-purpose professional works in interior (little in workshop) or in outside on varied building sites requiring of the concepts of masonry and competences in electricity: building sites or of rehabilitation, building sites of utility services (swimming pools, protections fire…).
Discrete but sociable, it moves and advises its customers. The women, not very present in this trade, however have as many assets as the men to exert it. The majority of the plumbers heating specialists evolve/move in the craft industry.
Everywhere in France, they can be paid of a company of plumbing heating or services general, of an administration or a territorial collectivity. They are the privileged partners of the research departments and the cabinets of architects for the realization of the projects.
The die of formation
The young person begins his formation with a BEP Techniques of the sanitary and thermal facilities.
To also prepare a Professional Patent Health facilities or Climatic /et Génie is advised. To know maintenance, the young person can also pass from the diplomas of maintenance in climatic and medical genius.
These qualifications and the concrete experiment of professional and cultural diversity acquired at the time of the Tour de France will carry out it on the ground. Then, if it wishes it, it will be able to evolve in the framing or to reach turned stations to the study and management thanks to a BTS Fluides energies environment.
Since 1988, the Workers' association of the Companions of the Duty of the Tour de France gradually obtains structures specific to the trades, the objective being to create an institute for each trade of the Trade-guild of the Duty.
The career
Each professional can open out in a practice different from the trade: head of undertaking, site foreman, skilled worker, charg3e d' affaires, foreman, section engineer, craftsman… The companies pain to renew their manpower, which proves to be promising for the graduates of the sector.
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 The plumber is a skilled worker in the installation, the maintenance and the repair of the water pipelines and the apparatuses of water supply and gas. Case of Plomblerie
Most of the time, the plumber is also heating specialist or climatician.
When he is requested on the building site of a new building, the plumber intervenes after the realization of carcass work, thanks to the reservations carried out by the mason outside and inside the building.
These reservations mark the site of the drains and the various domestic apparatuses.
On the level of the reservations, the plumber will bore walls, floors and will set up piping.
He will stop then these sealings in the partitions and the floors and will check the good walk of his installation. Its activity differs when it is called as a repairer.
It does not carry out any more the installation of the drains and the domestic apparatuses, but ensures their maintenance and their possible repairing.
Water escape, problem of water-heater or heating, joints to be changed belong to its daily batch and the outlets are ensured in this trade. However the companies miss young good formed.
The range of its interventions widened considerably with the modernization of the everyday life.
Today, the plumber intervenes to set up fountains, swimming pools, systems of automatic watering or of the protective systems sets fire to.
However, the trade remains always also hard and physical. The plumber is often obliged to work with ground, is curved into two, or to move extremely heavy apparatuses.
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