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BACKFLOW
BAK PRESSURE
BACK VENT PIPE
BALL COCK
BALL JOINT
BATTERY OF
FIXTURES
BELL OR HUB
BENDING PIN
(OR IRON)
BIBB
BIDET
- Alley is any public space, public park moroughiare less than three (3) meters
but not less than two (2) meters in width which has been dedicated or deeded
to the public for public use.
- Alter or alteration is any change, addition or modification in construction or
occupancy. (Change or repair).
- Approved means accepted or acceptable under an applicable specification
stated or cited in this Code, or accepted as suitable for the proposed use under
procedures and powers at the authority.
- Authority in this Code is mean to be the individual official, board, department
or agency established an authorized by the office of the President (R.A. No.
1378) to administer and enforce the provisions of this National Plumbing Code
as adapted or amended. (Prof. Sanitary Engineering) Plans and specs,
(Master Plumber) - Install
- The flow of water into a water supply system from source other than its regular
source. Back siphonage is one type of backflow.
- Air pressure in drainage pipes greater than atmospheric pressure.
- the part of a vent line which connects directly with an individual trap
underneath or behind the fixture and extends to the branch or main, soil, or
waste pipe at any point higher than the fixture or fixture trap it serves. This is
sometimes called an individual vent.
- A faucet opened or closed by the fall or rise of a ball floating on the surface of
water.
- A float valve with a spherical float.
- A connection in which a ball is held in a cuplike shell that allows movement in
every direction.
- Battery of fixtures is any of two or more similar adjacent fixtures which
discharge into a common horizontal soil branch.
- That portion of a pipe which for a short distance, is sufficiently enlarged to
Received the end of another pipe of the same diameter for the purpose of
making a joint.
- Plugging an opening with oakum, lead or other materials that are pounded into
place. Also, the material that is pounded into the opening.
- A fitting into which the end of a pipe is screwed for the purpose of closing the
end of the pipe.
CATCH BASIN
CESSPOOL
CHECK VALVE
CIRCUIT VENT
COMMON VENT
CONDUCTOR, LEADER,
OR DOWNSPOUT
- A vertical pipe to convey rain water.
CONTINUOUS VENT - - A continuous vent is a vertical vent that is a continuation of the drain, to which
the vent connects. (or VSTR)
CORPORATION COCK - A stop valve placed in a service pipe close to its connection with a water main.
COURT
- A court is an open , unoccupied space bounded on two (2) or more sides by the
walls of the buildings. An inner court is a court entirely within the exterior
walls of a building. All other courts are outer courts.
CROSS CONNECTION - Any physical connection or arrangement of pipes between two otherwise
separate building water-supply pipes or a system through which or by means of
which water supply may flow from one system to the other, the direction of flow
depending on the pressure differential between the two systems.
DEAD END
DEVELOPMENT
LENGTH
DIAMETER
- Diameter of a pipe or tube shall mean the nominal internal diameter (I.D.) of
such pipe; except brass and copper tubing wherein the term shall mean the
outside diameter (O.D.) of tubing.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE - See sanitary sewage.
DOUBLE-BEND
FITTING
- A pipe fitting shaped like the letter S.
DOUBLE OFFSET
- Two offsets in succession or in series in the same line.
DOWNSPOUT
- The vertical portion of a rainwater conductor.
DRAIN
- A sewer or other pipe or conduit used for conveying ground water, surface
water, storm water, or sewage.
DRAINAGE SYSTEM -The drainage pipes of a plumbing system take the water from the plumbing
fixtures and deliver it to the sewer or some other outlet. The drainage pipes
must be gas-light, and water-light. The passage of air, odors or vitamin from
the sewer into the building must be prevented.
DRY VENT
DUAL VENT
EXISTING WORK
PLUMBING
- The art and technique of installing in buildings the pipes, fixtures, and other
apparatuses for bringing in the water supply, liquids, substances or ingredients
and removing them and such water, liquid, and other carried-wastes affecting
health and sanitation and hazardous to life and property; also the pipes and
fixtures after they have been installed, i.e. the plumbing system.
PLUMBING FIXTURE - A receptacle attached to a plumbing system other than a trap in which water or
wastes may be collected or retained for ultimate discharge into the plumbing
system.
PLUMBING SYSTEM - The plumbing system of a building, institution,, factory or industrial
establishment, includes the water-supply, liquids, substances and or ingredients
distributing pipes; and those pipes removing them and such water, liquid, and
other carried-wastes; the fixtures and fixture traps; the soil, waste, and vent
pipes; the house drain, the foundation drain, and the house sewer; the stormwater drainage; drainage ejectors, all with their devices, appurtenances, and
connections within or on a building, a factory, or an industry.
PLUMBING OFFICIAL - The authority or the officer charged with the administration and enforcement
of the National Plumbing Code, or his regularly authorized deputy.
POTABLE WATER
- Potable water is water which is satisfactory for drinking, culinary, domestic
purposes and meets the requirements of the health authority having
jurisdiction.
PRIMARY BRANCH
- A primary branch of the building drain is the single sloping drain from the base
of a stack to its junction with the main building drain or with another branch
thereof.
PRIVATE OR
PRIVATE USE
- Private applies to fixtures in a residence where the fixtures are intended for the
use of a family or an individual.
PRIVATE SEWER
- A private sewer is a sewer privately owned and not directly controlled by
public authority.
PRIVY
- An outhouse or structure used for the deposition of excrement.
PRIVY VAULT
- A pit beneath a privy in which excrement collects.
PUBLIC OR
PUBLIC USE
- In the classification of plumbing fixtures, public applies to fixtures in general
toilet rooms of schools, gymnasiums, hotels, railroad stations, public buildings,
bars, public comforts stations, or places to which the public is invited or which
are frequented by the public without special permission or special invitation,,
and other installations (whether pay or free) where a number of fixtures are
installed so that their use is similarly unrestricted.
PUBLIC SEWER
SHALL
SIAMESE
CONNECTION
SIPHONAGE.
SOIL PIPE
SOIL STACK PIPE
SPIGOT
STACK
STACK VENT
STANDPIPE
STORM WATER
STORY
SUBSOIL DRAIN
SUMP
SUPPORTS
SURFACE WATER
SWIMMING POOL
TAPED TEE
TRAP
TRAP SEAL
UNIT VENT
VACUUM
VENT
WET VENT
WASTE PIPE
YARD
or similar purpose.
- As used in this Code, is mandatory.
- A wye connection used on fire lines so that two lines of hose may be connected
to hydrant or to the same nozzle.
- A suction by the flow of liquids in pipes. A pressure less than atmospheric.
- A soil pipe is any pipe which conveys the discharge of water closets, urinals,
or fixtures having similar functions. Also, a cast-iron pipe, with bell and spigot
ends, used in plumbing to convey fecal matter or liquid wastes.
- A vertical soil pipe conveying fecal matter and liquid waste.
- The end of a pipe, which fits into a bell. Also a word used synonymously with
faucet.
- A general term used for any vertical line of soil, waste, or vent piping.
- A stack vent is the extension of a soil or waste stack above the highest
horizontal drain connected to the stack.
- A vertical pipe usually used for the storage of water, frequently under pressure.
- Storm water is that portion of the rainfall or other precipitation, which runs off
over the surface after the storm and for such a short period following a storm as
the flow exceeds the normal runoff.
- Story is that portion of a building included between the upper surface of any
floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost
story shall be that portion of a building of a building included between the
upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above. If the finished
floor level directly above a basement or cellar is more than six (6) feet above
grade such basement or cellar shall be considered a story.
- Subsoil drains are underground drain pipes that receives only sub-surface or
seepage water and convey it to place of disposal.
- A pit or receptacle at a low point to which the liquid wastes are drained.
- Supports, hangers, anchors, brackets, cradles are devices for holding and
securing pipes and fixtures to walls, ceiling, floors, or structural members.
- Surface water is that portion of a rainfall or other precipitation which runs off
over the surface of the ground.
- A water receptacle used for swimming designed to accommodate more than
one bather at time and properly connected to a disposal system.
- A cast-iron bell-end tee with the branch tapped to receive a threaded pipe of
fitting .
- 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
waste water through it.
- See seal.
- An arrangement of venting so installed that one vent pipe will serve two (2)
traps.
- An air pressure less than that atmospheric. Also, siphonage.
- A pipe or opening used to ensuring the circulation of air in plumbing system
and for reducing the pressure exerted on trap seals.
- Wet vent is that portion of a vent pipe through which liquid waste flow.
- A waste pipe is a pipe, which conveys only liquid waste, free of fecal matter.
- A yard is an open, unoccupied space, other than a court, unobstructed from the
ground to the sky, except where specifically provide by this Code, on the lot
on which a building is situated.