A technician sounds fancy, skilled, educated and qualified, but anyone can call themselves a technician. And a licensed professional plumber with training and education and years of experience is a skilled craftsman worthy of a lofty title, but may simply choose to call themselves the “plumber!”

Plumbers often have a whole variety of specialty skills that allow them to handle many different scenarios that they're likely to come across on a daily basis. Plumbing contractors will usually only take on very complex plumbing projects, like water supply issues and septic tank problems.

Plumbing is any system that conveys fluids for a wide range of applications. Plumbing uses pipes, valves, plumbing fixtures, tanks, and other apparatuses to convey fluids.