Plumbing Flashcards
The length of a pipe along its centerline and fittings
Developed Length
Wastes which require some special methods of handling
Special Waste
The end of a pipe which fits into a bell, also word used “synonymously with faucet”
Spigot
A pipe joint obtained by joining metal parts with a metallic fixtures of alloys which melt a temperature below 427 degrees centigrade and above 149 degrees centigrade
Soldered joint
Any pipe that conveys the discharge water from water closet, urinal or fixtures that have a similar function
Soil Pipe
A vertical soil pipe containing fecal matter and wastewater
Soil Stack Pipe
An adjustable tubing connection consisting of a compression nut, a friction ring, and a compression washer, designed to fit a threaded adapter fitting or a standard taper pipe thread
Slip Joint
An approve elastometric sealing gasket with an approved outer shield and a tightening mechanism
Shielded Coupling
A suction created by the flow of liquids in pipes. A pressure less than atmospheric
Siphonage
A hose fitting with clapper valves for combining the flow from two or more lines if those into a single stream. The inlet fitting of a fire standpipe
Siamese Connection
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Shaft
A comprehensive term, including air constructions for collection, transportation, pumping treatment and final disposition of sewage
Sewerage / Sewerage Works
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and wastewater
Sewer
Any wastewater containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution and may include liquids containing chemicals in solution
Sewage
The pipe from the street main or other source of water supply to the building served
Service Pipe
a water-tight receptable which receives the discharge of a sanitary plumbing system
Septic Tank
A loosely lined excavation in the ground, which receives the discharge of the septic tank & designed to permit the effluent from the septic tank to seep through pit bottom and sides
Seepage Pit
Any branch in the building drain or other than the primary branch
Secondary branch
The vertical distance between the dip and crown weir of a trap. Also the water trap between the dip and the crown weir
Seal
The wastewater containing human excrements and liquid household waste
Sanitary sewage
A water supply pipe that extends vertically to one full story or more to convey water into a pipe branches or plumbing fixtures
Riser
An unobstructed top open edge of a fixture
Rim
A vertical line the primary function of which is to provide additional circulation of an between the drainage and vent systems or to act as an auxiliary vent on a specially designed systems such as a yoke vent connection between the soil and vent stacks
Relief Vent
Includes all valves and controls used in plumbing systems which are accessible
Regulating Equipment
An approved plumbing fixture device of such materials, shape and capacity to adequately receive the discharge from indirect waste pipes, constructed and located to be readily channel
Receptor
An outhouse or structure used for the deposition of excrement
Privy
A pit beneath a privy where excrement collects
Privy Vault
A building sewer which receives the discharge from more than the building drain and conveys it to the public sewer, private sewage disposal system, or other points of disposal
Private Sewer
A septic tank with the effluent discharging into a subsurface disposal field into one of more seepage pits or into a combination of subsurface disposal field and seepage pit or of such other facilities
Private Sewer Disposal System
Is the single sloping drain from the base of a stack to its junction with the main building drain
Primary branch
The normal force exerted by a homogeneous liquid or gas, per unit area on the wall of the container
Pressure
the pressure existing without any flow of motion
Static Pressure
The pressure available at the fixture or water outlet
Residual pressure
A minimum standard quantity of plumbing fixtures that discharge wastes into a plumbing installation
Plumbing Unit
Approved type installed receptacles, devices or appliances supplied with water or receive liquid or liquid borne wastes and discharges into the drainage systems
Plumbing fixtures
Manufactured device that serves as adjunct to the basic piping system and plumbing fixtures. Demands no discharge or water supply
Plumbing Appurtenance
One of special class of device intended to perform a special plumbing function
Plumbing Appliance
The art and technique of installing pipes and etc.
Plumbing
includes all potable water building supply and the rest of the system
Plumbing System
Title given to a person who is skilled in the field of sanitation
Plumber
Refers to an individual who worked in the sanitary field of ancient Rome
Plumbarius
Latin word that means lead
Plumbum
a metal used as plumbing material by the Romans for its properties of malleability and resistant to acid
Lead
Principle num. clean water
1
Principle number of plumbing unit
6
Principle number of Efficiency
3
Principle number of Volume and pressure
2
principle number of explosion
4
principle number of sewer
5
principle number of test
13
principle number of vent terminals
12
principle number of plumbing fixtures
7
principle number of cleanouts
8
principle number of air circulation
11
principle number of trap
10
principle number of material and workmanship
9
principle number of sewage harm
14
principle number of maintainance
19
prnciple numbe rof sewage backflow
18
principle number of contamination
15
principle number of wc light
16
principle number of septic tank
17
principle number of accessible
20
principle number of structural stability
21
principle number of sewage treatment
22
A rigid pressure piping syste renowned for its high impact strength and durability
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS)
Applied to a fixture, connection, appliance or equipment shall mean having access thereto, which may require prior reomavl of an access panel door or similar obstruction
Accessible
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Openly accessible
A physical separation
Airbreak
The unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere bet. the owest opening from any pipe
Air Gap Distance
An unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening from any pipe or faucet conveying potable water to the flood level rim of any tank
Air Gap Water Distribution
Organized primarilyy established for purposes of testing to approve standards and approved by the administrative authority
Approved Testing agency
The flow of water or other liquids 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
Backpressure backflow
Device or means to prevent flow of liquid from returning to its source of supply
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
Back Siphonage
A device installed in the drainage system to prevent reverse flow
Backwater Valve
The part of the 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 trap it serves. Also called “Individual Vent”
Backvent pipe
A valve opened and closed by the fall and rise, of an attached ball floating o 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
Any of two or more similar adjacent fixture which discharge into a common horizontal soil or waste branch
Battery of Fixtures
That portion of a pipe for a short distance is sufficiently enlarged to receive the end of another pipe of the same diameter for the purpose of making a caulkedor push on joint
Bell or Hub
A tool for straightening or bending lead pipe
Bending pin
Also called a sitz bath
Bidet
A pipe flange that is not drilled for bolt holes
Blank Flange
A flange that closes the end of the pipe. There is no opening for the passage of liquid and gas
Blind Flange
A controlled outlet of a pipeline to discharge liquid or detritus
Blow-off
A valve outlet of a boiler that permits discharge of accumulated sediment
Boiler blow off
Any part of piping system other than the main, riser or stack
Branch
A length of soil or waste stack corresponding to a storey height, but in no case less than 2.43m within which the horizontal branches from one floor or storey of a building are connected to the stack
Branch Interval
A horizontal 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 499 degrees centigrade but lower than the meting temperatures of the parts to be joined
Brazed Joint
The 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 0.6m outside the building wall
Building Drain
That part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system which starts from the end drain and conveys it to a public sewer individual sewage disposal system or other point of disposal
Building Sewer
The 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
Plugging an opening with oakum, lead or other material that are pounded into the annular space
Caulking
A receptacle in which liquids are retained for a sufficient period of time to allow settleable material to deposit
Catch Basin
Non watertight lined excavation in the ground which relieves the discharge of a sanitary drainage system designed to retain the organic matter and solids discharging therefrom but permitting the liquid to seep through the bottom and sides
Cesspool
A cylindrical conduit or conductor conforming to the particular dimensions
Pipe
A group vent pipe which starts in front of the extreme fixture connection on a horizontal branch and connects to the vent stack
Circuit Vent
A valve that automatically closes to prevent the flow of liquid or gas in a reverse direction
Check Valve
A vertical shaft for installation of different pipe stacks
Chase
A structure which an part of its structural framework will ignite and burn at a temperature of 756 degrees centigrade or less
Combustible Construction
A specially designed system of waste piping embodying the horizontal wet venting of one or more sink or floor drains by means of a common horizontal waste and vent pipe sized to provide free movement of air above the flow line of the drain
Combination Waste and Vent System
An arrangement of venting so installed that one vent pipe will serve
Common Vent
A room or space having a volume of less than 1.4 m3 with 250 kg calorie of the aggregate input rating of all fuel-burning appliances installed in that space
Confined Space
That part of plumbing system designed and installed to serve more than one appliance fixture, building or system
Common
Tube made of plastic material colored black. The cross sectional shape is circular and is denoted by its outside diameter
Polyethylene
Tube made of plastic material colored black. The cross-sectional shape is normally oval and is denoted by its outside diameter. Normally used as water service connection from main to meter
Polybutylene
A line of piping is a combination of elbows or bends which brings one section of the pipe out of the line but into a line parallel with the original section
Offset
Hemp or old hemp rope soaked in oil or tar to make it waterproof
Oakum
Any work regulated by the Pluming Law that is dangerous to human life or detrimental to health and property. Also causing inconvenience or annoyance
Nuisance
That part of the horizontal piping of sanitary drainage system which measures 0.6 m downstream from the last mobile home site and conveys sewage to a public sewer, private sewer, individual sewage disposal system or other points of disposal
Mobile Home Park Sewer
The principal artery of the venting system to which vent branches are connected
Main Vent
Any system of continuous piping which is a principal artery of the system were branches are connected
Main
A vertical vent connection on a horizontal soil waste pipe branch at a point downstream of the last fixture connection and turning to a horizontal line above the highest overflow level of the highest fixture connected thereat
Loop or Circuit Vent
A pipe or shaft to convey foul air from a plumbing fixture or a room to the outer air
Local Vent
The discharge from any fixture, appliance or appurtenance in connection with a plumbing system which does not receive fecal matter
Liquid Waste
Measured along its centerline
Length of Pipe
A pipe connected from building gutter to the downspout or conductor
Leader
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Leaching cesspool
A water closet consisting of a continuous through containing water
Latrine
In plumbing it’s the secondary pipeline. In sewerage it is a common sewer to which no other branch sewer is connected. It receives sewage from building sewer service connections only
Lateral
Equipment or materials bearing a label of a listing agency where it includes the weight, specifications and logo of the manufacturer
Labelled
The lowest portion of the interior part of any pipe or conduit that is not vertical
Invert
Highest portion of the outer part of the pipe
Crown
portion of the interior part of the pipe
Obvert
A device designed and installed to separate and retain deleterious, hazardous or desirable matters from normal wastes and permits normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity
Interceptor (Clarifier)
A condition contrary to sanitary principles or injurious to health
Insanitary
Any and all liquid or water borne waste from industrial or commercial processes except domestic sewage
Industrial Waste
A pipe installed to vent a fixture trap and which connects with the vent system above the fixture served to terminate in the open air
Individual Vent
A pipe that does not connect directly with the drainage system but conveys liquid wastes by discharging into a plumbing fixture, interceptor or receptacle directly connected to the drainage system
Indirect Waste Pipe
Cast iron soil pipes with plain ends connected together with bolted stainless steel bands and neoprene gaskets
Hubless pipes
The pipeline from the building to the public or street storm drainage system
House Storm Sewer
Part of a plumbing system extending from the house drain at a point 0.6m from the outside face of the foundation wall of a building to the junction with the street sewer or to any point of discharge, and conveying the drainage of one building site
House Sewer
Part of the lowest horizontal piping of a plumbing system which receives the discharges from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside of a building and conveys it to the house sewer outside of the house
House Drain
Any pipe or fitting installed in a horizontal position or which forms an angle of not more than 45 degrees from horizontal plain
Horizontal Pipe
A drain pipe extending laterally from a soil or waste stack or building drain with or without vertical sections or branches, which receives the discharge from one or more fixture drains and conducts it to the soil or waste stack or to the building drain
Horizontal Branch
A device designed to retain grease from 1 to a maximum of 4 fixtures
Grease Trap
An interceptor of at least 3 cubic meter capacity to serve one or more fixtures which is remotely located
Grease interceptor
A return bend of a small sized pipe, one end of which is about 30 cm long and the other end is about 7.5 cm long
Gooseneck
A valve in which the flow of a fluid is cut off by means of a circular disc that fits over and against the horizontal valve seat
Globe Valve
A valve in which the flow of water is cut off by means of a circular disc fitted against a machine-smoothed faces, at right angles to the direction of flow
Gate Valve
A device which discharges a predetermined quantity of water into fixtures for flushing purposes and is actuated by direct water pressure
Flushometer Valve
Integrated within an air accumulator vessel which is designed to discharge a predetermined quantity of water into fixtures for flushing purposes
Flushometer Tank
A device located at the bottom of the tank for the purpose of flushing water closet or similar fixtures
Flush Valve
A tank located above or integral with water closet, urinal or similar fixtures for flushing or removing excrements in the fixture
Flush Tank
A fixture is flooded when the liquid therein rises to the flood level rim
Flooded
The top edge of the receptacle from where water overflows
Flood Level Rim
The level in a fixture at which water begins to overflow over the top of rim of the fixture
Flood Level
An arbitrary quantity in terms of which the load producing effects of water requirements on the plumbing system of different kinds of plumbing fixtures are expressed in some arbitrary chosen scale
Fixture Unit
A water supply pipe connecting the fixture with the fixture branch
Fixture Supply
The drainpipe from the trap of a fixture to the junction of tat drain with any other drainpipe
Fixture Drain
The water supply pipe between the fixture supply pipe and the water distributing pipe
Fixture branch
A receptacle other than a trap attached into a plumbing system in which water or wastes may be collected or retained for ultimate discharge into the plumbing system
Fixture
A metallic sleeve, caulked or joined to an opening in a pipe, into which a plug is screwed that can be removed for cleaning or examining the interior of a pipe
Ferrule
It is the minimum cross-sectional area at the point of water supply discharged measured
Effective Opening
A term used to describe soil or waste system where all piping’s are of threaded pipe tubing or other such rigid construction using recessed drainage fittings to correspond to the types of piping
Durham System
Includes all the piping within public or private premises which convey sewage or other liquid wastes to a legal point of disposal but does not include the mains of a public sewer system
Drainage System
A pipe which carries ground surface waters, stormwater or wastewater into a building drainage system
Drain
A pipe for conveying rainwater from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain
Downspout
2 offsets in succession or in series such that the centerlines of the outside ends are in the same straight line
Double Offset
A pipe fitting with adjacent reverse bends and shaped like the letter S
Double Bend Fitting
The liquid and water borne wastes derived from the ordinary living processes, free from industrial wastes
Domestic Sewage
The extended portion of a pipe that is closed at one end to which no connections are made on the extended portion, thus permitting the stagnation of liquid or air therein
Dead-end
Any connection between a potable water supply system and any plumbing fixture through which enables non-potable, used, uncleaned, unpolluted, contaminated water to enter into any part of such potable water system under any condition
Cross-Connection
Marking on a backflow prevention device or vacuum breaker is a point conforming to approved standards and established by the testing laboratory
Critical Level
A stop valve placed at the connection of the water service pipe to the water main
Corporation Cock
A vertical pipe to convey rainwater
Conductor or Downspout
A drain connecting compartments of a set of fixtures to trap or connecting other permitted fixtures to a common trap
Continuous Waste
It is the vertical vent that is a continuation of the drain to which the vent connects
Continuous Vent
