| The thaw after heavy snowfall meant that plumbers were inundated with calls to repair burst pipes. |
| They included electricians, boilermakers, sheetmetal workers, plumbers and pipe fabricators. |
| A lot of other businesses are also doing particularly well as a result of the housing boom, like construction, plumbers, joiners and builders. |
| Well, how many plumbers can say they've had twenty pound notes stuffed down their smalls by bored city types? |
| Lots of children are not academic but would make first-rate plumbers or electricians. |
| Young people are now coming out of their time and going into jobs as plumbers, sparkies, or carpenters. |
