plumbing

Soil Pipe

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

Stack.

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

Soil Stack Pipe.

A vertical soil pipe conveying fecal matter and liquid waste.

Stack Vent.

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

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.

Unit Vent.

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

Wet Vent.

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

Branch.

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

Main.

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

Branch Vent.

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

Waste Pipe.

A pipe which conveys only liquid wastes free fecal matter.

Drain.

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

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.

Sewage.

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

Sewerage.

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

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.

Sewer.

A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and waste liquids.

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.

House Trap.

A trap connected to lowest horizontal piping or house drain.

Public Sewer

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

Siphonage.

A suction caused by the flow of liquids in pipes.

Spigot.

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

Seal.

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

Roughing-In.

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

Sump.

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

Shaft

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

Sleeve.

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

Pipe Chase.

An opening or space to accommodate a group of pipes.

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.