Last year, our 5-storey building was overhauled. "Khrushchobs" make up the lion's share of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. All plumbing, sewer, and heating pipes in the house were changed. The house was built in the 70s and since then nothing has changed in it. A team of 5 young guys about 25-30 years old worked. They worked long and hard. When they changed pipes and batteries in our apartment, I was amazed at their speed of work and professionalism. Everyone had a presence of intelligence on their faces and no traces of alcohol. When they finished the work, I regretted a little that I didn’t take a picture of them and didn’t talk. There are such professions that I call eternal, which robots will not replace: a baker, a shoemaker, a plumber, etc. Although no, the baker has already been partially replaced by a bread machine
Recently, my wife ordered plumbers through a newspaper to install hot and cold water meters at home. Since the authorities are forcibly forcing them to bet, well, we were led by the information that there will be significant savings.
Two young guys Vasily, 33 years old and 22-year-old Sergey, came. I asked, they say, do you guys mind if I take pictures of you working. They didn't mind. Well, at the same time I asked them different questions.
The elder Vasily said that he graduated from a vocational school by profession as a carpenter and got a job in one of the housing departments. Where he gradually mastered various working professions, incl. plumbing. He says that his father also worked all his life as a worker, was a mechanic. After retiring, he lived for another year and died, fitting into the average age of men in Kamchatka.
The Soviet years left a negative imprint on the portrait of a plumber- a hangover, untidy and uneducated type, demanding payment for the slightest work - a bottle. I asked Vasily if this was true and if he drank himself. Vasily did not hide the fact that such a sin was behind him. He got drunk because of what he divorced his first wife and now pays alimony. Then the realization gradually came to him that booze and work are incompatible. “I came to work in the morning, and I had a check in my pocket and I quietly hungover. Then I see that the people whom I came to change doors, insert locks look askance at me. They didn't like the smell of fumes from me. I became ashamed of it too. In the end, I gave up with booze. I can drink beer, but rarely. Vasya says that he got a job in a management company, where he began to master new materials, exchange experience with older comrades.
As a result, he matured to create his own private business.. And off we go. From orders now there is no release. Moreover, plumber Vasily has his own construction team, which makes repairs to apartments and offices. “Where I just did not work. In various construction teams, where he learned to glue wallpaper, plaster, paint. In my work book, there was no longer room for notes and inserts were made. - Says plumber Vasya
. - I learned everything. My team just doesn't do suspended ceilings."
I realized that Vasily, in addition to being able to work with his hands, cooks well with his brains, especially in terms of business. He says that already many stores sell goods to him at a good discount as a regular customer.
Watching how Vasily famously handled the pipes, I realized that today the image of the Soviet plumber is not true. Modern plumbers are excellent and responsible professionals who value their work, often with special education.
Pictured: 10 year old Vika's daughter oversees the installation of meters. Unfortunately dad, i.e. I am not capable of it. For, like most men, my arms grew from where my legs came from. no, well, I can fix the socket, iron, drill the wall. And even put a tap, a water mixer. But it’s unlikely to change the heating battery, pipes, install a meter.
We talk with the master about new materials and remember that earlier radiators were only cast iron, and pipes were only iron, to bend them, welding machines were mainly used. The technology was quite primitive, but very reliable. Until now, since those times, these heavy cast-iron batteries, tow and welding have stood before my eyes. Now it's much easier. No one carries welding machines with them. Although no, the guys had such a small unit, which they called a welding machine, which heated up the ends of a plastic pipe and coupling, which were then fastened hot.
Vasily worked confidently and taught Sergey the intricacies of his work, constantly explaining something. I asked the junior plumber how he got into this profession and where he worked. Serega says that he served in the army. Last year he worked on Putin, but he did not really like fishing. Pushed around and attached himself to Sergei. They have family ties through the wife of brother Vasily. They asked Vasily, they say, take the guy to your place, teach the craft, maybe it will be a good idea.
Serega is not very willing to talk about himself, and I dared to ask if he could admit to a girl when he met that he worked as a plumber. The guy was embarrassed, and the older comrade helped out by saying that he could introduce himself as a specialist in new pipeline materials. Still, the Soviet attitude to dirty professions is still preserved in society. Apparently, a lot of time will have to pass when all our professions will be respected: a janitor, a plumber, and a milkmaid. Well, like in the USA. In the meantime, Russian youth have more respect for the profession of a lawyer, manager, banker. In the 90s, bandits and prostitutes were held in high esteem. But now, apparently, there is a gradual realization that a diploma of a lawyer and a manager does not yet prove the presence of brains and intellect, and also does not guarantee that a person will find a decent paid job. Now, if the leadership of the country would reduce the ranks of people with uniforms, bureaucrats, all sorts of controlling and punishing departments. Then the vacant cadres would have to go to study as locksmiths, turners, agronomists, engineers and veterinarians. In the meantime, young people dream of putting on shoulder straps of the army, cops or the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Judging by their salaries, they are now the middle class.
I ask the entrepreneur and part-time plumber Vasily - what kind of car does he have and has he been abroad? He replies that he has an old Corolla car, he has not yet earned money for a more decent one. He has not been abroad and is going to send his wife and two sons this year. The wife works as an accountant in a budgetary organization. The eldest son is 8 years old and the youngest is 2 years old. Vasily shows me pictures of his family on his phone and boasts about his boys: “The elder loves to go to work with me. He likes to hold something, give keys and I try to use him in the process. For this every time I give him 500 rubles. And the youngest son also likes to be next to me, I also sometimes take him with me, and he, too, looking at his older brother, is trying to help in some way.
in the photo: my wife Olga accepts a job
The guys did a great job, however, then they had to fill out all sorts of documents for counters for a long time. Vasily constantly called customers, clients. I paid 5,800 rubles for the installation of two counters, the replacement of a faucet and a drain in the bathroom. When the guys left, I thought that in Russia there is a catastrophic lack of such working families and guys who are not afraid to get their hands dirty and are not looking for a place in life, about which we have put down sayings “wherever you work, just not to work.” But unfortunately in society, we often see a generation of parasites and consumers among young people. They immediately want a cool car, preferably a jeep or GT, a lot of money to relax abroad with heifers, and not to work. Some of the young people who have money parents live like that without denying themselves anything. But after all, the rest of the youth, whose mother is a seller, and father is a driver, also looks at them. What can be built with such youth in the country? Although in all centuries young people were probably scolded, it’s just that in Soviet times they didn’t have wheelbarrows, and they didn’t go abroad, they dreamed of becoming an astronaut, submariner or physicist. And now they dream more about the Porsche Caen and the 200th Kruzak. Only now they don’t want to earn money with their own hands, as the plumber Vasily does.
Profession history: Ancient Rome would not have become a great city without its viaducts - water conduits, fountains, drainage systems, which were built and maintained by the progenitors of modern plumbers. Fired clay pipe systems with the complexity of designs and the perfection of engineering still delight contemporaries. The experience of past generations, multiplied by modern technology and new materials, brings to the arena a specialist, without whose work we cannot imagine modern society.
An overabundance of managers is felt more and more sharply by society. The once prestigious and highly paid university professions began to lose their value and popularity. More and more people understand that a handy hard worker will always earn his bread and butter. And the presence of a working specialty will not leave you without work even in difficult times.
Reconomica already interviewed from Minsk, and now the story of another representative of the working profession is next in line - a plumber from the DPR.
Job responsibilities, details of the rank increase, the salary of a plumber in Donetsk and the curiosities of the profession are in today's article.
Hello. My name is Shalash Roman Igorevich, I am 26 years old, I live and work in Yenakiyevo, Donetsk region. Experience in one profession for more than 4 years, and my profession is a plumber. Now I work at EMK LLC (Yenakievsky Meat Processing Plant).
I will begin my story about the plumbing profession with general points.
What are the job responsibilities of a plumber?
My profession is related to the repair, prevention, installation and maintenance of sewerage systems, cold water supply, hot water supply, heating systems, as well as ventilation at this enterprise, nothing complicated.
In my profession, it is important to know your job, to have confidence, maximum ingenuity, understand what you are doing and analyze your next steps. You also need to have a sense of lightness and then the work will be done faster. Some special knowledge is needed in the basics in order to simply know the name of the tool, and practice and perseverance will lead to a professional and qualified level.
How to become a plumber
Education, of course, secondary specialized or vocational (they give more practice). Plumbers are required in the housing stock, at enterprises. In general, a good plumber is needed literally at every step. Therefore, you can get trained as a plumber in almost any region where there are construction institutions.
Called?
To get a job, first of all, you need to study well and be able to do at least something. Employers make very high demands on this profession, but there are exceptions - and this is good for young professionals, because everything comes with experience. Usually, for employment, you only need to document your qualifications and answer a couple of questions from your boss.
At first, it is difficult to count on a large or even average salary, but if in numbers, then 4-6 thousand rubles, although you can try your luck at a salary of 8-10 thousand - this is in our Donetsk region. It all depends on how well you studied and what you know how to do by profession.
What does a plumber do at work?
When I first got a job, it was at the end of 2012, I didn’t have any practice and didn’t know much else, but they explained everything to me, they took me at first with them to simple jobs, showed me how to do it, an algorithm of actions, so that I understood in my head what to do.
Over time, the list of work became more and more diverse - not just to come, put a cable or string and clean the sewer or shut off a tap, valve or valve - but already more complicated: installation of sewer pipes, repair of cast-iron sewer pipes, dismantling of ventilation systems, elimination of mixer leaks, stuffing glands in a valve, installation of water-heating tanks, gas water heaters, soldering pipes - list what else a plumber usually does. Time goes by and I learn more and more nuances of the profession.
My work days
My work schedule from 8 to 17 usually starts with an outfit from the chief mechanic, I work in a machine shop. An outfit is a list of work that the bosses give to their employees and this, as a rule, sets the work for the whole day.
The work of a plumber can be, as I wrote above, quite diverse: to tweak something somewhere, replace, clean, perform preventive maintenance of devices and mechanisms. Everything is very simple: I took the necessary tool (and there can be a lot of it), understood the meaning of the work and what is required of you, sometimes, however, the authorities themselves suggest how to do the work if it is of increased complexity, and can make adjustments. But in general, the methodology is as follows: I got a job, took a tool and went to work.
I must say right away that almost nothing is done in this profession without a tool.
Plumber at work.
Curiosities from practice
There are interesting cases in my work: a faucet dripped - very commonplace! I took a couple of wrenches, I come - yes, indeed, a 1/2 inch faucet leaked (this is about 20 mm diagonal thread), I take a number 1 gas wrench (the lips of the key are separated by 10-36 mm), I try to twist it first, maybe it will stop flowing. Having started to twist, I notice that it is tight and, most likely, this method will not help. I shut off the main water supply and try to unwind this tap so that I can repack it later (remove it and screw it back on, after putting hemp on the thread), but in the end it breaks along with a piece of thread. That's the number!
Or another case. My workmate and I went to put the faucet on the sink ... As a result, in order to connect it, I had to climb under the sink (and this is very inconvenient!), Wind up the hoses, and a friend helped me with one hand. Not so much difficult in terms of work, but in these conditions the task becomes more complicated at times and we spent a considerable amount of time on it.
Salaries in the DPR are low
When I first got a job at this enterprise, my first salary was only 2,350 rubles, but time passes, and over time, advanced training comes, and with it wages. Now in this position people earn like me. By the way, my salary has also changed, now it is 5500-6200, the maximum that a plumber in Donetsk can earn is about 9 thousand (for this, in my case, I need to change my job and improve my qualifications).
How much a plumber earns depends, as a rule, on the number of hours worked and the hourly rate plus interest. At each private enterprise they are different, but at communal (state) labor rates are the same.
What does my salary or the salary of a plumber of my category consist of:
The hourly / daily wage rate (I have a daily rate of about 300 rubles), the number of hours worked according to the time sheet from the boss (depending on how many weekday calendar days are in a month) and another percentage for harmful working conditions (the effect of sewerage, work in sewer manholes), I have it equal to 25%.
The entire salary, of course, is white with a full social package (sick leave, vacation, trade union, clothes and tools). There are also bonuses when we call a machine from the water utility to punch sewer manholes from fat - hard work that must be done in a limited time. The size of the bonus ... yes, in different ways, I personally was given 20% of the monthly salary.
An experienced plumber will always be in demand and will be able to earn an extra penny.
Pros and cons of being a plumber
The result of all of the above is approximately the same.
The advantages include:
- Ability to handle various construction tools;
- Knowledge that can be useful to you in everyday life;
- You can use the working tool for personal needs;
- A plumber can always find a large amount of part-time work;
- Expansion of the list of enterprises in which your knowledge will be needed;
- Mobile work (and movement, as you all know, is life).
By cons:
- Failure to comply with the labor protection instructions for a plumber and carelessness in handling the tool can lead to sad consequences, and even death;
- The work of a plumber is also work with people, and this causes additional requirements for a candidate for a position: a person should not be irritable and conflict;
- Harmful working conditions. Although the payment for them is higher, but the negative impact on the body, albeit at a minimum, is inevitable;
- Periods are heavy physical exertion.
A plumber has a place to develop, there would be a desire
Let me tell you a little more about the prospects of this specialty.
Getting a rank
The qualification of a plumber is determined by ranks. At my enterprise, the maximum category of plumbing is the sixth, so far I work in the fifth category. Usually, when a student graduates, he is assigned 2-4 digits (everything is based on personal experience and depends on how you passed the exam after practice and what grade you were given at the very place of practice).
When I graduated from technical school, I had the third category. An increase in the rank of plumbers occurs by passing an exam at the enterprise, the examination committee must be directly attended by the head, chief engineer and a person from the state - a special inspector. It was the same for me when I took the fourth category after a year of my work. The requirements for passing the exam are written in the document " sanitary norms and rules”, it says what a plumber of a certain category should be able to and know.
I was required to have a theoretical part on flushing heating systems in residential buildings after the heating period, because I alone, having the third category, cannot do this work according to the documents, this is already part of the job responsibilities of a 4th category plumber.
After another 2 years, I passed the exam for the fifth category, I already passed it in practice: adjusting and starting water through large-diameter pipes, revision of valves with a pipe diameter of 150 mm, as well as starting the heating system at the enterprise at the beginning of the heating period. Workers of the 4th and 5th category have the right to do this, but it is obligatory in the presence of a specialist of the 6th category.
I receive the sixth category in 3-5 years after receiving the fifth. After the sixth category, there is already a position of a master, and then a chief engineer (there must be a completed higher education).
A tip for future plumbers
For those people who wish to go to study and work in this profession in the future, I wish success, determination, perseverance, perseverance in achieving any goals, good luck (where without it).
The profession itself is not difficult, but you need to study and try. Do not forget that this profession will always be needed in life and there will always be a part-time job for a good plumber: for example, you can go to a neighbor and fix a tap, mixer, drain tank, install a sink, connect a heating system, replace a radiator. The types of in-demand and well-paid jobs that an experienced plumber can perform can be listed for a long time.
And remember: without practice, nowhere!
Your attention is invited to a unique live video interview "Is it easy to become a plumber and how profitable is it?" Vladimir Kozin, author and leader of the project, with his friend, plumber Alexander.
If anyone else does not know, Vladimir Kozin is the creator of a number of training video courses on home improvement, summer cottages, apartments and any other premises.
You can order this or that video course on the official website of Vladimir (just click on the link of the course you are interested in above) or go to. And below is the text version of Vladimir Kozin's interview with plumber Alexander:
Vladimir Kozin: Hello, dear subscribers, our guest today is a person who started just like me - from scratch. In order for you to understand some questions, Alexander will explain them.
The first question that readers ask me is: “Is it possible to do this business without a construction education?”, that is, what kind of education do you have?
Alexander: My education is generally far from construction, I am an athlete.
Vladimir Kozin: Even so?
Alexander: Yes. But this is long in the past, as age does not allow.
Vladimir Kozin: Great, what job did you have before you started dealing with water supply, heating, and sewerage systems?
Alexander: At one time I tried to work as a coach, but there, one might say, with our economy, it is difficult to earn even bread, primarily financial problems. You need to feed your family, you need to live somewhere, most likely such problems concern many.
Vladimir Kozin: The third question is: “How did you come to deal with the water supply system, sewerage and the like on your own?”. I understand that you had some first experience? Tell me a little.
Alexander: It all started when I inherited a small house.
Vladimir Kozin: Good legacy.
Alexander: What no, but also a little help. Something in which I didn’t understand anything at all - yes, I had to hire someone, but I quickly realized that I needed a lot of money for this, but there was nowhere for me to get them with my work. Therefore, everything that concerned internal work - gluing wallpaper, laying linoleums, I did it myself, but when it came to water, in principle, the same thing. That friends helped, some with advice, some with something else, that's how I tried.
Vladimir Kozin: It's a good motivation when you are already confronted with a question, moreover, a question point-blank. Did you have any fears, inconveniences, before undertaking it? As far as I understand, it was new for you anyway.
Alexander: No, when I was making a house, I had other thoughts - just to do it. And when I did it, and everything worked, I thought about what to do next, I began to think, but should I do this, do it to some comrade, then, of course, it was scary. Because there is no experience, no education, starting something new is always scary.
Vladimir Kozin: Yes, I agree with you. What helped you decide on self-assembly besides motivation?
Alexander: Motivation pushed me, but what helped was that this was my first home, it helped me learn something, understand something, somewhere the Internet gave me a little bit. This is how I slowly started with water, I didn’t climb into the heating, only water.
Vladimir Kozin: How difficult is it in general to master this technology, let's take, for now only water supply and sewerage?
Alexander: How difficult? I don't even know how to say it. It depends on how it is given to someone, and what efforts you make, efforts, desire.
Vladimir Kozin: Can everyone or is it only given to a select few?
Alexander: No, about the chosen ones, of course, I doubt it, here it kindles any pots, do you agree?
Vladimir Kozin: Certainly.
Alexander: Well, that's what I'm talking about. Therefore, it requires perseverance, the desire to achieve something. If there is perseverance, there is a desire, there is motivation, like, say, I have, then yes. It doesn't come in one day, it doesn't come in a month, of course.
Vladimir Kozin: How difficult is it in general to work with the equipment, with the tool that is used to mount the systems? Well, if there are sewerage systems, then, in principle, there is no such equipment, but the water supply system ...
Alexander: Well, I don’t know what tools existed for this before, but how big I found those times when there were no tools that we have now, and now everything you want is in the store. Here, in order to hammer a wall, you used to need a hammer and a chisel, but now this is not necessary.
Vladimir Kozin: I even had experience, I hung a carpet in the house and there was neither a drill nor a puncher, and I did it with a hammer ...
Alexander: Well, when there is nothing, you will do it with a nail. Therefore, there is nothing special to compare with, but now there are so many things that we have that it is a pleasure to work simply. There is nothing complicated here.
Vladimir Kozin: Yes, stores are full of various tools, moreover, in different price categories: both cheap and expensive.
Alexander: Yes, whatever you want, you choose from the style of your work. How serious is your job?
Vladimir Kozin: This question was also heard from our subscribers: “How often do you get a defective product and how to avoid it?”. Because in any case counterfeit exists.
Alexander: How to beware? As such, there is no recipe here, just some recommendations can, of course, be given. No need to chase cheap goods, you should always work with trusted suppliers. You don’t need this: “But I went on the Internet and found it there for 1,800 rubles, although it actually costs 3,000, I’d better take it from those, because it’s almost half the price.” Here are recommendations on how to protect yourself from marriage and counterfeit goods - no need to chase cheap ones.
Vladimir Kozin: I also set myself the same challenge.
Alexander: He comes across marriage everywhere, yet people do it, marriage can be everywhere, just somewhere more, somewhere less. Obviously, the price should immediately tell you, it should either attract or repel you.
Vladimir Kozin: Well, as I understand it, you are now just working with regular suppliers who guarantee their goods?
Alexander: Of course, they have guarantees. For example, if I took some pipe, pump or radiator from them, installed it, and it stopped working tomorrow. I know that I will take it off now, I will return it, they will change it for me and there will be no complaints.
Vladimir Kozin: I myself use and, I hope, you also have such that many regular suppliers also give certain discounts for a certain amount of goods. This is also a great help for beginners.
Alexander: Yes, this is a huge plus, which is why it is necessary to work with only trusted suppliers, you earn some kind of discounts...
Vladimir Kozin: The question is: “How big is the demand for specialists in this particular area?”. Let's take the moment, let's not remember the past.
Alexander: The demand has always been, is and will be. Both for food and for construction work.
Vladimir Kozin: Yes, people keep changing plumbing...
Alexander: People live, buildings, yes, they age, apartments, houses, it constantly requires repair. Houses, apartments are being sold, owners are changing, they don’t like what the previous owner did, I need to redo it the way I want. Therefore, it is a vicious circle, endless - back and forth, back and forth.
Vladimir Kozin: And then I would like to ask the following question: “What contingent of clients do you basically have? Are these organizations or just individuals?
Alexander: In principle, already now, after some time has passed, I have already reached the stage when I have fewer private clients, mostly organizations. Because experience is already slowly gaining, we are growing, we are already moving from smaller to larger ones. Doing small things, as it was 5-6 years ago, is somehow not profitable, and even not interesting. I want something new, bigger and financially more interesting.
Vladimir Kozin: Well, since finances have been touched upon, the last question is: “What level of income, on average, is it possible to reach, while doing business (let’s take only the area of water supply and sewerage)?”. Because it is clear that if heating is added, then these are completely different levels.
Alexander: You can go to any level. You can even reach infinity, because it all depends on how serious you are about it and how seriously you want to do it. I am even afraid now to name any sums, one hundred thousand, two hundred, five hundred, one million.
Vladimir Kozin: Well then, let me elaborate on the question. Well, what if a person starts from scratch and has no assistants yet, that is, he works in one?
Alexander: I think that with a strong desire and with a not stupid head, let's say, within two or three months, you can reach the salary level of about a thousand dollars.
Vladimir Kozin: Good help already.
Alexander: Yes, I believe that if you work alone, or start as I started, you are quite capable of earning a thousand dollars in two or three months.
Vladimir Kozin: Here, in principle, all the questions that I wanted to hear from Alexander, let's say a big thank you to him, good luck to everyone and goodbye.
Today, working professions have again become highly valued. There are too many lawyers, economists and marketers. The market no longer needs them. In large cities, on the contrary, there is a sharp shortage of people in working professions. Needless to say, getting a profession today is a problem. If you have a certificate of secondary education, you can easily become, for example, a plumber. However, to argue that to become a professional in the field of plumbing communications you need to take only two-month courses, it would be wrong (to put it mildly).
Plumbing courses are only the initial part of the training. Of course, the foundations of the profession are being laid right now. But do not forget that without practice and a work permit, it is impossible to get a job legally. Next will be presented the path that a person must master in order to become a professional plumber (to earn a living from this).
Of course, college (previously it was called Vocational School) can become one of the ways. However, the above is not always possible. However, for people of almost all ages, an option with paid courses is available.
This approach is more efficient. You pay for tuition. Specialists have prepared a program for mastering the basics of the profession. It is hardly worth reminding that in the vast majority of vocational schools, teachers, by and large, do not care about their students.
In the courses, no one will force you to study. However, the presented program will be a set of knowledge, highly specialized in the chosen direction - nothing more.
This will allow you to concentrate on getting the necessary experience and at the same time not waste a lot of time. After all, the path to the profession is just beginning at the passage of courses and obtaining a diploma.
This is a paid internship. However, it continues for about 5 years. After training, a young specialist finds himself in an environment where the applied application of the knowledge he has acquired is required.
The benefits of an internship include:
- gaining valuable experience for further work (you can make mistakes only at the beginning of your career path);
- receiving positive recommendations after the completion of the work experience;
- the possibility of obtaining a work permit for official employment with a fixed salary.
In the future, a specialist with a long track record and impressive experience will be able to open his own business and earn many times more.
Sergey Mikitchuk will present a short lesson that will be useful to those who have chosen the plumbing profession:
Everyone knows that the installation and repair of pipes and various plumbing equipment is an unusually complex set of works, so qualified specialists must certainly be involved in its implementation. Only in this way can you count on a long service life and trouble-free operation.
In almost all large cities, many companies provide services for the provision of such services. At the same time, round-the-clock support for all customers is also quite often provided. However, it can be quite difficult to choose from a wide variety of such companies a really reliable one, in which experienced craftsmen work. It is very important to know the main rules for determining the qualifications and experience of the master even at the stage of calling a plumber. To do this, you do not need to have a special education in the field of psychology.
How to choose a good plumber
There are several characteristics by which you can fairly accurately determine the professionalism of the master:
- Positive reputation. This information can be obtained from the reviews left by customers, as well as from the advice of relatives, friends or just acquaintances who had to resort to the services of such a specialist.
- No big discounts or price cuts. The services of a qualified specialist simply cannot be cheap. It is best to choose offers related to the middle price category. It must be remembered that saving on the services of a master can lead to very serious consequences, up to the need for a complete replacement of equipment or the entire system.
- Providing a warranty period. If the master is confident in the quality of the work performed, he will certainly provide a quality guarantee. Even if errors are made during the execution of some processes, they will be corrected as quickly as possible, and most importantly, free of charge.
- Use of professional equipment by the master. For the qualitative performance of such work, it is not enough to have special skills or knowledge. Experienced and qualified specialists always perform work with the help of professional equipment. The master's set must contain expensive devices for the desired purpose. At the same time, the plumber must have a sufficient set of tools and be able to use it for its intended purpose. Another criterion may be the well-groomed instruments. So you can determine the frequency of use of the tool, as well as understand how the master treats it. Professionals who are responsible for their work will always have well-groomed tools.
- Plumbing advice. An experienced specialist is well versed in his field of activity, so he can always give good advice in a wide variety of situations, based on personal experience. Do not hesitate to ask him questions, even if the reason for calling the plumber was different.
Given these nuances, it is quite easy to choose a truly professional, responsible and experienced craftsman who is well versed in his business. In the event of a pipe rupture, the speed of work is of paramount importance. At the same time, a professional can give practical advice over the phone, which will help prevent flooding. So, for example, you can find out which tap needs to be turned on to turn off the water before the arrival of a specialist.
