Heavy eating over the festive period has seen plumbing rocket to the best-paid trade in the country, with some plumbers making over £6000 a day due to emergency call-outs because of blocked toilets.

In what is known in the business as the plumbers’ ‘Brown Friday‘, the day after Christmas is considered the most lucrative day for plumbers, with many earning enough to afford foreign holidays between the 27th-31st December, returning again on New Year’s Day to face another day of unblocking drains for astronomical prices.

Dungannon plumber, Davy McCann, explained:

“I don’t know if people are just bigger eaters now or toilets are getting smaller, but the amount of blocked toilets is through the roof around Christmas these last few years. I had 7 call-outs on Christmas Day this year, and I charge £500 a call out. It’s a love/hate day. I make a fortune, but sometimes it’s hard wading through other people’s s**te when you are half-cut yourself. It puts the dung in Dungannon alright.”

New Year’s Day is expected to be another heavy day for plumbers, with many families ridding the house of leftovers before the health kick.