A Little History about Plumbing

Etymologically the word plumbing comes from plumb, the material (mineral) traditionally used for this type of facility. It is currently in disuse because of its toxicity in producing various diseases. It is also known as gas fitter from the English gas fitter, "installer of gas pipes".

Plumbing or gas fitter is the activity related to the installation of potable water supply networks and wastewater disposal, as well as heating installations in buildings and other constructions.

Those who practice it are called Plumber Toms River or gas fitters. Although this trade has its origin in the use of lead pipes, currently in most Western countries the use of this material is prohibited both in drinking water and in the disposal of sewage. The reason is that this material adversely affects the health of the consumers, and in addition, its work is slow and very difficult, compared to other more modern materials like the copper or the pipes of polyethylene or PVC.

The Plumber Toms River or Plumber Howell works the plumbing as an inheritance of the great plumbers of history, the Romans and later of the Englishmen. We found the first works of plumbing in rudimentary drainage, both in grandiose palaces and in bathrooms, in aqueducts and other systems over 4000 years.

About the year 1700 BC. In the Palace of Minos at Knossos on the island of Crete, we found four separate sewers that emptied into the large culverts built in stone. The pipe of cooked clay was placed under the floor of the palace, hiding it from the vision of the passersby. It provided water for marble fountains and faucets, there was also found the world's first sink, with a wooden seat and a small reservoir of water. The device, however, was lost.

In the sixteenth century, Sir John Harington invented a toilet again, similar to the primitive one. It would still be another 200 years before another Englishman, Alexander Cumming, patented the forerunner of the present one.

But the great plumbers per excellence were the Romans, who included in the architecture the great works of civil engineering that today we know as aqueducts. And of which we can find precious vestiges like the aqueduct of Segovia, Spain that impresses by its greatness to those who have the pleasure to visit it.

As you can see the current Plumber Toms River has a heritage and tradition of more than four thousand years.