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Soil Pipe

Any pipe which conveys the discharge of water closets, urinals, or fixtures having similar functions.

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Stack.

A general term used for any vertical line of soil, waste, or vent piping.

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Soil Stack Pipe.

A vertical soil pipe conveying fecal matter and liquid waste.

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Stack Vent.

An extension of a soil or waste stack above the highest horizontal drain connected to the stack.

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Vent.

A pipe or opening used for ensuring the circulation of air in a plumbing system and for reducing to pressure exerted on trap seals.

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Unit Vent.

An arrangement of venting so installed that one vent pipe will serve two (2) traps.

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Wet Vent.

The portion of a vent pipe through which liquid waste flow.

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Branch.

Any part of a piping system other than the main riser or stack.

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Main.

The main of any system of continuous piping is the principal artery of the system to which branches may be connected.

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Branch Vent.

A vent pipe connecting from a branch of the drainage system to a vent stack.

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Waste Pipe.

A pipe which conveys only liquid wastes free fecal matter.

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Drain.

A sewer or other pipe or conduit used for conveying ground water, surface water, waste water or sewage.

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House Drain.

The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a plumbing system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside of a building and conveys it to the house sewer.

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Sewage.

The liquid wastes conducted away from buildings/structures, also of the storm water.

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Sewerage.

A comprehensive term, including all construction for collection, transportation, pumping, treatment and final disposition of waste.

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Trap.

A fitting or device so constructed as to prevent the passage of air, gas, and some vermin through a pipe without materially affecting the flow of sewage or wastewater through it.

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Sewer.

A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and waste liquids.

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House Sewer.

is that part of a plumbing system extending from a point about 4 or 5 feet from the inner face of the foundation wall of a building to the junction with another sewer.

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House Trap.

A trap connected to lowest horizontal piping or house drain.

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Public Sewer

. A common sewer directly controlled by public authority to which all abutters have equal rights of connection.

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Siphonage.

A suction caused by the flow of liquids in pipes.

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Spigot.

The end of a pipe which fits into a bell. It is also a word synonymously with faucet.

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Seal.

The vertical distance between the dip and crown wire of a trap.

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Roughing-In.

The installation of all pipes in the plumbing system that are in partitions and under floors.

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Sump.

A pit or receptacle at a low point to which the liquid wastes are drained.

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Shaft

. A vertical opening through a building for elevators, dumbwaiters, light, ventilation, etc.

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Sleeve.

A sheet metal placed when concrete is poured to accommodate future plumbing pipes.

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Pipe Chase.

An opening or space to accommodate a group of pipes.

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Plumbing Fixtures.

These installed receptacles, devices, or appliances which are supplied with water, or which receives or discharge into drainage system which maybe directly or indirectly connected.

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