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What’s the difference between a plumber and a heating engineer?

In his exclusive column for Installer, Andy Gibbs takes a look at job titles, and how the public view tradespeople:

What’s your job title?

Plumber? Gas Fitter? Heating Engineer? Gas Engineer? Service Engineer?

I know this is always an evocative discussion, and it generally upsets a few people, which I don’t want to do, I’m just here to have a chat about what…

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Andy Gibbs (author)

Andy Gibbs is a heating and plumbing engineer with over 30 years of experience on the tools. After starting his career working for British Gas, he started his own business in 2004. Andy is a regular columnist for Installer sharing his real-world view of what life is like for engineers.

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