Plumbing equipment includes personal hand tools, consumables, and power tools. Basic tools include an adjustable wrench, plunger, and safety goggles. Personal hand tools include screwdrivers and pliers, while consumables include solder and tape. Power tools include augers and drills, among others.
The different types of plumbing equipment include personal hand tools, consumables and power tools, and shop or workplace equipment. The simplest tool set you might have for basic plumbing work includes an adjustable wrench, fire cloth, hacksaw, socket wrench, pliers, plunger, propane torch, and safety goggles. These tools can be used to do basic jobs, like unclogging a drain, changing a faucet, or welding two pipes together. More complex plumbing equipment may be required to perform more complicated jobs.
Other plumbing tools that fall into the personal hand tools category include allen wrenches, a ball-point hammer, a caulk gun, cold or wood chisels, a crowbar, and a drywall knife. Other types of hand tools include needle nose pliers, regular, multi point and stubby screwdrivers, a sledgehammer, socket set, trowel, and several types of adjustable wrenches. Safety equipment includes safety gloves and ear plugs. These different tools are used in different ways. For example, a crowbar and a drywall knife can both be used to access plumbing behind walls in order to replace old, damaged or blocked pipes.
These personal hand tools are brought along with a plumber when he does a specific job. Personal hand tools are plumbing equipment that can be used job after job. There is no need to replace these items after use and many of them are not specific to plumbing but are general equipment used in a multitude of construction jobs.
Consumable plumbing equipment, on the other hand, generally cannot be reused for multiple jobs as it is installed or worn out as it is used. Examples of consumable plumbing equipment include copper strapping, 50/50 solder, flux or solder paste, plumbers’ putty, silicone, Teflon tape, and various nails and screws. Once solder or tape is used to do a job, it naturally wears out and cannot be reused.
Finally, power tools are an example of the different types of plumbing equipment. These include augers, such as a closet, sewer, drill type, and medium auger. Drills that a plumber may use include a cordless drill with spare batteries and a hammer drill with concrete bits. Other power tools a plumber might require include an electric multimeter, inspection camera, metal detector, pipe freezer and pipe thawer, reciprocating saws, circular saws, and welding and cutting equipment.
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