Now I see a major problem developing across America as more folks are moving to these areas and to retirement communities, the local country plumbers are not properly trained in sizing these larger developments.

A lot of the good OLE boy concept of making a plumber is no longer tolerable as anyone in some areas can say they are "plumbers" and have no clue to either proper Drainage Vent or Waste designs. All they need is a local license they just buy like a dog license. NO TESTING REQUIRED.

I read the bulletin boards and it is appalling how little formal training some of these blokes have. What needs to be created is a National Board of Standards for plumbing testing by population in a given area.

Why should a place with 12 folks living in a trailer park have the same caliper of trained plumber as a city of 6 or 7 million people? A country plumber working in Death Valley may have no clue to suds pressure zones or interpolation of storm drainage when combined with a waste system.

Yet when a population explosion occurs like Upstate or in a desert state the local good OLE boy plumber finds he is out of his/her league when it comes to knowing the right job and has no clue on how to keep abreast of the model codes.

As this little village grows over night to over 100,000 so does the need for training and knowing several codes, not just the basics of the local plumbing code.

Having inspected literally thousands of unfired pressure vessels and low pressure boilers I am amazed more folks have not been killed by improper installations.

Imagine if having a pilots license was the same as a plumbing license?