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ALLEY
ALTER OR
ALTERATION
APPROVED
AUTHORITY
BACKFLOW
BAK PRESSURE
BACK VENT PIPE
BALL COCK
BALL JOINT
BATTERY OF
FIXTURES
BELL OR HUB
BENDING PIN
(OR IRON)
BIBB
BIDET
BLANK FLANGE
BLIND FLANGE
BLOW OFF
BRANCH
MWSS / OPWH
BRANCH INTERVAL
BRANCH VENT
BUILDING
BUILDING DRAIN
- 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.
- A tool used for straightening or expanding lead pipe.
- Synonymous with faucet is preferred. Faucet or Spigot.
- A plumbing fixture used for washing the middle part of the body, specially the
genitals. Also a sitz bath (Used to wash posterior parts of the body).
- A flange that is not drilled.
- A flange that closes the end of a pipe. There is no opening for the passage of
water. (Used for black iron pipes).
- A controlled outlet on a pipe line used too discharge water or detritus. (In
Sanitary house trap).
- A branch is any part of a piping system other than the main, riser or stack.
- Installation of national local water works.
- For installation & excavation respectively.
- A length of soil or waste stack corresponding in general to a story height, but
- in no case less than eight (8) feet, within which the horizontal branches from
one floor or story of a building are connected to the stack.
- A vent pipe connecting from a branch of the drainage system to a vent stack.
- Building is any structure built, erected and framed of component structural
parts designed for the housing, shelter, enclosure or support of persons,
animals, or property of any kind.
- See house Drain.
BUILDING SEWER
BUILDING
SUBDRAIN
CALKING
- Plugging an opening with oakum, lead or other materials that are pounded into
place. Also, the material that is pounded into the opening.
CAP
- 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
-That portion of a drainage system which cannot drain by gravity into the
building sewer. ( Any piping system which needed to be elevated from
basement to the N.G.L.)
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
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
DOUBLE-BEND
FITTING
DOUBLE OFFSET
DOWNSPOUT
DRAIN
HORIZONTAL
BRANCH
HOUSE DRAIN
HOUSE STORM
SEWER
INDIRECT WASTE
PIPE
- A branch drain extending laterally from soil or waste stack, with or without
vertical sections or branches, that receives the discharge from one or more
fixture drains and conducts it to the soil or waste stack or to the building drain.
- The house drain is that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a plumbing
system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes
inside of a buildings conveys it to the house sewer.
- A house storm sewer is the pipeline from the building to the public storm
sewer system.
- A waste pipe that does not connect directly with the building drainage system
but discharges into is through a properly trapped fixture or receptacle.
INDIVIDUAL VENT
- See back vent.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES - Industrial waste are liquid waste resulting from the processes employed in
industrial establishments and are free from fecal matter.
INSANITARY
- Contrary to sanitary principles or injurious to health.
INTERCEPTOR
- A receptacle designed and constructed to intercept or separate, and prevent the
passage of oil, grease, sand, or other materials into the drainage system to
which it is directly or indirectly connected.
INVERT
- The lowest portion of the inside of any pipe conduit that is not vertical.
LATERAL
- In plumbing, a secondary pipe line. In average, a common sewer to which no
other common sewer is tributary, receives sewage only from building sewers.
LATRINE
- A water closet consisting of a continuous though containing water. The trough
extends under two (2) or more adjacent seats. Prohibited by most authorities
for permanent installations.
LAVATORY
- A fixture designed for the washing of the hands or face. Sometimes called a
wash basin.
LEACHING CESSPOOL A cesspool that is not watertight.
LEADER
- See conductor.
LENGTH OF PIPE
- The length as measured along.
LOCAL VENT
- A pipe or shaft serving to convey foul air from a plumbing fixture or a room
to the outer air.
LOOP OR CIRCUIT
VENT
- A continuation of a horizontal soil or waste pipe beyond the connection at
which liquid wastes from a fixture or fixtures enter the waste or soil pipe. The
extension is usually vertical immediately beyond its connection to the soil or
waste pipe. The base of the vertical portion of the vent may be connected to the
horizontal portion of the soil or waste stack between fixtures connected thereto.
MAIN
- The main of any system of continuous piping is the principal artery of the
system, to which branches may be connected.
MAIN VENT
- See vent stack.
MANHOLE
- An opening constructed in a sewer or any part of a plumbing system of
sufficient size for a ,an to gain access thereto.
MASTERPLUMBER
- A person with knowledge of and experience in plumbing who employs
journeymen plumbers or who conducts a plumbing business.
OAKUM
- Hemp or old hemp rope soaked in oil to make it waterproof.
OCCUPANCY
- Occupancy is the purpose for which a building is used or intended to be used.
The term shall also include the building or room housing such use. Change of
Occupancy is not intended to include change of tenants or proprietors.
PERSON
- A natural person, his heirs, executors, administrators, its or their successor or
assigns, or the agent of any of the aforesaid.
PITCH
- See grade.
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
RELIEF VENT
REPAIR
RETURN BEND
REVENT PIPE
RISER
ROUGHING-IN
SANITARY SEWAGE
SANITARY SEWER
TRAP
TRAP SEAL
UNIT VENT
VACUUM
VENT
WET VENT
WASTE PIPE
YARD