| Plumbing courses can prepare you for a lifelong trade | | | | They may also provide water for public and other |
| for which the outlook is very bright. | | | | government buildings too. Other systems, which also |
| The United States Department of Labour says that | | | | must be covered in plumbing courses, dispose of |
| the outlook is very good for those enrolling in plumbing | | | | waste, provide gas to furnaces and ranges, or deliver |
| courses because, quite simply, there are not enough | | | | heat and air conditioning. Power plant pipe systems |
| students doing so which suggests a shortage of | | | | deliver steam to huge turbines that create energy. |
| plumbers in the near future. | | | | Pipes are also found in manufacturing plants as a |
| Plumbers, pipe layers, steam fitters and pipe fitters, all | | | | means of moving materials through the plants |
| closely aligned, make up one of the highest paid and | | | | production process. All these methods of plumbing |
| largest of the construction category of occupations in | | | | must be taught in courses. |
| the United States. | | | | Even computer-chip manufacturers and |
| There isn't much doubt that those plumbing courses | | | | pharmaceutical firms have their own specialized |
| you take will more than pay for themselves many | | | | system of pipes that must be installed, serviced and |
| times over. | | | | repaired. Plumbers must attend courses to learn how |
| Most people are familiar with the basics of residential | | | | to do so. |
| plumbing, and the courses that would be taught in a | | | | Sometimes, a plumber might have to cut a hole in a |
| trade school. Each of us, at one time or another, has | | | | ceiling, a floor or a wall of a home or commercial |
| either hired someone to install or repair a plumbing | | | | building. Plumbing courses must teach her or him how |
| fixture or have had to tackle the task ourselves. We | | | | to do that safely and accurately. There are plumbing |
| know, for example, that plumbing courses would need | | | | systems that require steel supports being hung from |
| to teach how to install an appliance or unclog a drain. | | | | ceiling joists as a way of keeping the pipe in place. The |
| Other plumbing courses, however, include laying pipes, | | | | plumber has to take the courses that teach him or her |
| fitting water pipes and fitting steam pipes as well as | | | | how to do that. |
| maintaining and repairing each of these. | | | | Plumbers need courses in using pipe cutters, saws, and |
| There are a lot of variations in the plumbing trade | | | | machines that bend pipes. They need to learn how to |
| tasks and specializations, however. So, there are a | | | | work with plastic pip and connect the fittings and |
| variety of plumbing courses required to become a | | | | sections with adhesive. Some plumbing courses focus |
| licensed plumbers. Some water systems, for example, | | | | on copper pipe, while others teach the use and care |
| not only work within a residential dwelling but may also | | | | of plastic pipe. |
| move the water to a local water treatment plant and | | | | Plumbing courses are nearly as varied as the types of |
| then on to residential as well as commercial buildings. | | | | buildings people can dream up and construct. |