CHAP2 A-B Flashcards
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ADS
Acrylonitrile-Butadiene·Styrene
any public space. public park or thoroughfare less than three (3) meters but not less than two (2) meters in width dedicated or deeded for public use.
ALLEY
any change, addition or modification in construction or occupancy.
ALTER or ALTERATION
when applied to a fixture, connection, appliance or equipment, shalt mean having access thereto, but which may require prior removal of an access panel, door or similar obstruction. “Readily accessible” shall mean direct access without the necessity of removing any panel, door or similar obstruction.
ACCESSIBLE
a physical separation. which may be a low inlet into the indirect waste receptor from the fixture, appliance or device indirectly
connected.
AIRBREAK
the unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening fiom any pipe, plumbing fixture, appliance or apputtenance conveying waste to the flood level rim of the receptor.
AIR GAP, DRAINAGE
an unobstructed vertical distance
through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening from any pipe or
faucet conveying potable water to the tlood-level rim of any tank, vat or fixture.
AIR GAP, WATER DISTRIBUTION
accepted or acceptable under an applicable specifications or standard stated or cited in this Code., or accepted as suitable for any proposed use under procedures and powers of the Administrative
Authority.
APPROVED
an organization primarily established for purposes of testing to approve standards and approved by
the Administrative Authority.
APPROVED TESTING AGENCY
The Administrative Authority including the Building Ofiicial, the Commission, the Board and such other drpartment or agency established and authorized to administer and enforce the provisions of Republic Act 13 78 - The Plumbing Code of the Philippines, Presidential Decree No. 223~ as amended by P.D. 657 creating the Professkmal Regulation Commission and prescribing its powers and functions, and Letter of Instruction No. 1000 - ordering and directing the Professiona\ Regulation Commission (PRC), the former
Ministry of Human Settlements, the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Education and Culture, Public Works and Highways, Tourism, Transportation and Communication all SOOT agencies concerned, to authorize and support PRC Accredited Bonafide Professional Organizations only, and their members to organize, host, sponsor or rcprc~ent the Filipino Professionals in national, regional and international fora, further and conventions where the concerned professions arc involved; and orders directs
that all government agencies and instrumentalities shall give priority to bonafide members of the accredited
professional organizations in the hiring of its employees and engagement
of professional services.
AUTHORITY, ADMINISTRATIVE
the flow of water or other liquids, mixtures or substances into the distributing pipes of a potable supply of **water from any source other than from its intended source. **
BACKFLOW
condition or any arrangement whereby reverse flow can occur.
BACKFLOW CONNECTION
occurs due to an increased reverse
pressure above the supply pressure. This may be due to pumps, boilers, gravity or other sources of pressure.
BACKPRESSURE BACKFLOW
device or means to prevent flow of liquid from retuming to the source of supply. Also called vacuum breaker.
BACKFLOW PREVENTER
the flowing back of used, contaminated or polluted water from a plumbing fixture or vessel into a water supply pipe
due to a negative pressure in such pipe. See backflow.
BACK-SIPHONAGE
a device installed iri a drainage system to prevent reverse flow.
BACKWATER VALVE
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 vent pipe at any point higher than the fixture or fixture traps it serves. This is sometimes called an individual vent. See Revent pipe.
BACKVENT PIPE
a valve opened and closed by the fall and rise, respectively, of an attached ball floating on the surface of the liquid.
BALL COCK
a type of pipe connection in which a ball-shaped end is
held in a cuplike shell and allows movements in every direction.
BALL JOINT
- a room equipped with a shower stall or bathtub.
BATHROOM
any of two or more similar adjacent fixtures which discharge into a common horizontal soil or waste branch.
BATTERY OF FIXTURES
- that portion of a pipe which, for a short distance, is
sufficiently enlarged to rt.~ceive the end of another pipe of the same
diameter for the purpose of making rt caulked or push-on joi nt
BELL OR HUB
a tool for straightening or bending lead pipe.
BENDING PIN (or IRON)
- synonymous with faucet, cock, tap, plug, etc. The word “faucet” is preferred.
BIBB
A plumbing fixtures used for washing the middle private part of the body, especially the genitals. Also called a “sitz” bath.
BIDET
A pipe tlange that is not drilled for bolt holes.
BLANK FLANGE
- a flange that closes the end of a pipe. There is no
opening for the passage of liquid or gas.
BLIND FLANGE
a controlled outlet of a pipeline to discharge liquid or detritus.
BLOW·OFF
the Licensure Board for Master Plumbers
BOARD
a valved outlet of a boiler that permits discharge of accumulated sediment.
BOILER BLOW-OFF
any part of the piping system other than a main, riser or stack .
BRANCH
a length of soil or waste stack corresponding in
general to a story height, but in no case less than 2.43 meters within which
the horizontal branches from one floor or story of a building are connected
to the stack
BRANCH INTERVAL
see Fixture Branch
BRANCH, FIXTURE
see Horizontal Branch
BRANCH, HORIZONTAL
a hmizontal vent connecting one or more individual
vertical back vents with the vent stack or stack vent.
BRANCH VENT
- any joint obtained by joining of metal parts with
alloys which melt at temperatures higher than 449 degrees centigrade, but
lower than t.he melting temperature of the parts to be joined.
BRAZED JOINT
Brown and Sharpe (Specification) or Bell and Spigot (Ends of
Pipes)
B & S
a structure built, erected and framed of component structural
pat1s designed for the housing. shelter, enclosure or support of persons>
animals or prope11y of any kind.
BUILDING
that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the
building sewer beginning 0.6 meter outside the building wall.
BUILDING DRAIN
that pat1 of the horizontal piping of a drainage system which starts from the end of the building drain and which ref.:eives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a public sewer, private sewer, individual sewage disposal system or other point of disposal.
BUILDING SEWER
that portion of an underground system, which
cannot drain by gravity into the building sewer.
BUILDING SUBDRAIN
the pipe carrying potable water from the water
meter or other source of water supply to a building or other point of use or
distribution on the lot. Building supply shall also mean water service
connection.
BUILDING SUPPLY
