Building Utilities: Plumbing 1

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1. ABS A pipe material that is used by MWSS for the 20. 2 1. To provide sufficient amount of water to
service pipe. conditions supply each fixture.
for an
2. Siphon The most quiet yet the most expensive water
effective 2. To prevent back flow of used water into the
vortex closet.
water water supply system.
3. CPVC A pipe material that is best applied for hot water supply
use.
21. Functions 1. Fast removal of the waste with a minimum
4. 2 inches The trap and trap arm size of a kitchen sink. of probability of leakage and stoppage of drains.
diameter Drainage
5. 1.80 The standard length of the digestive chamber. System 2. To prevent the entry of house vermin and
meters obnoxious gases into the house from the piping
system.
6. 1.20 The effluent depth for the septic tank.
meters 22. Solid A waste that is being discharged by the water
waste closet.
7. Back vent A type of vent used for the individual fixtures.
pipe 23. Liquid Wastes that are coming from various fixtures.
waste
8. Along The location of the pipeline to be installed upon
side entry of service pipe to the property. 24. Soil pipe A Pipe that conveys the discharge of water
property closet.
line 25. Waste Any pipe that conveys waste from various
9. Angle A type of valve used for kitchen sink and pipe fixtures other than water closet.
valve lavatory supply. 26. DWV Drainage, waste, and vent.
10. Tailpiece A pipe fitting used for the trap arm of the 27. Air gap It is the unobstructed vertical distance through
lavatory. the free atmosphere between the lowest opening
11. Green The color coding of pipes for potable water. from any pipe or faucet that supplies water to a
tank, plumbing fixture, or other device and flood
12. Yellow The color coding of pipes for steam.
level rim of the receptacle.
13. Architect Person in-charge of "roughing-in" of the sanitary
28. Back flow It is the flow of water, or other liquid mixture or
pipes.
substances into the distributing pipes of a
14. Plumbing The art and science of installing pipes, fixtures potable supply of water from any source, other
and other apparatus to convey and supply water than its intended source.
in buildings and to dispose and discharge waste
29. Back It refers to the back flow of used contaminated
water and other liquid, gases and other
siphonage or polluted water from a plumbing fixture or
substances out of the buildings in a safe, orderly,
vessel into a water supply pipe due to a
healthy and sanitary way to ensure the health
Negative Pressure in such a pipe.
and sanitation of life and property.
30. Battery of It referes to any group of two or more similar
15. Plumber It is the title given to a person who is skilled in
fixtures adjacent fixtures which discharges into a
the field of sanitation.
common horizontal waste pipe or soil branch.
16. Plumbarius It refers to an individual who worked in the
31. Bib It is synonymous with faucet, cock, tap, plug,
sanitary field of anicent Rome.
etc. The word faucet is prefered.
17. Plumbum A latin word which means Lead.
32. Blind A flange that closes the end of a pipe that has
18. Lead A metal used as plumbing material by the flange no opening for passage of water.
Romans. It is prefered for its twin properties of
33. Blow off It is a controlled outlet on a pipeline used for
malleability and resistant to acid.
discharge of water.
19. 2 main 1. To supply water to different parts of the
34. Branch It is any part of the piping system other than the
objectives building.
main riser or stack.
of
Plumbing 2. To remove and discharge human waste and
other substances out of the building into the
public sewer or septic tank.
35. Branch It is the length of a soil or waste stack 47. Drainage It includes, all pipings within the public or
interval corresponding in general to a storey height, system private premises that conveys sewage,
but in no case less than 2.4 meters within rainwater, or other liquid waste, to a legal
which the horizontal branches from one floor point of disposal. It does not include the
or storey of a building are connected to the mains of public sewage system, private or
stack. public sewerage treatment or disposal plant.
36. Branch vent It is a vent connecting one or more individual 48. Dry vent It is a vent that does not carry water or water
vents with a vent stack or stack vent. borne wastes.
37. Caulking It is used to plug an opening with oakum, 49. Effective It is the minimum cross sectional area at the
lead, or other materials that are poured into opening point of water supply discharge, measured or
the place or opening. expressed in terms of diameter of a circle.
38. Circuit vent It is a branch vent that serves two or more 50. Existing It shall apply to that portion of a plumbing
traps, and extends from the front of the last work system that has been installed and approved
fixture connection of a horizontal branch to prior to the contemplated addition, alteration,
the vent stack. or correction.
39. Continuous It is a vent that is a continuation of the drain to 51. Fixture It is a pipe connecting several fixtures.
vent which the vent connects. branch
40. Combination It is a fixture combining one sink and tray or a 52. Fixture It is the drain from the trap of a fixture to the
fixtures two or three compatment sink or tray in one drain junction of that drain with any other drain-pipe.
vent.
53. Fixture It is a water supply pipe connecting the fixture
41. Combination It is a specially designed system of waste supply with the fixture branch.
waste and piping embodying the horizontal wet venting
54. Fixture units It is a quantity in terms of which the load
vent system of one or more sinks or floor drains by means
producing effects on the plumbing system of
of a common waste and vent pipe adequately
different kinds of plumbing fixtures are
size to provide free movement of air above
expressed on some arbitrarily chosen scale.
the flow line of the drain.
55. Fixture unit It is the total discharge flow in gallons per
42. Common It is a drain from two or three fixtures
flow rate minute of a simple fixture divided by 7.5
vent connected to a single trap. Also called as
gallons that provides the flow rate of that
dual vent.
particular plumbing fixture as a unit of flow.
43. Cross It is any physical connection between two Fixtures are rated as multiple of this unit of
connection otherwise separate piping system, one flow.
contains potable water, and the other from
56. Flood level It is a device located inside the tank for the
unknown or questionable safety, whereby,
purpose of maintaining water level for
water may flow from one system to the other
effective flushing of the water closet.
direction of flow depending on the pressure
differential between the two systems. 57. Ferrule It is a metallic sleeve called or otherwise
joined to an opening in pipe into which a plug
44. Dead end It is the extended portion of a pipe that is
is screwed that can be removed for the
closed at one end permitting the stagnation of
purpose of cleaning or examining the interior
water or air therein.
of the pipe.
45. Developed The length along the center of the pipe and
58. Flush valve It is a device located at the bottom of the tank
length fitting.
for flushing water closets and similar fixtures.
46. Diameter It refers to the nominal internal diameter (ID)
59. Flushometer It is a device which discharges a
of such pipe, except brass and copper tube
valve predetermined quantity of water to the fixture
where the term refers to the outside diameter
for flushing purposes activated by direct water
(OD) of the pipe.
pressure.
60. Grade It is the slope or fall of pipe in reference to a
fraction of an inch per foot length of pipe.
61. Group vent A branch vent that performs its function for
two or more traps.
62. Horizontal It refers to any pipe or fitting which makes an 76. Return An open ____________ usually with inside threads,
pipe angle of more than 45° with the vertical. bend but applied also to 180° bend in pipe.
63. Invert It is the lowest portion of the inside of any pipe 77. Public It is a common sewer directly controlled by
or conduit that is not vertical. sewer public authorities where all abutters have
equal rights of connection.
64. Local vent It is a pipe on the fixture side of the trap through
pipe which vapor or foul air is removed from a room 78. Sanitary It is the sewage containing human excrement
or fixture. sewage and liquid household waste. It is also called
domestic sewage.
65. Looped It is the same as circuit vent except that it loops
vent back and connects with a stack vent instead of a 79. Sanitary A sewer intended to receive sanitary sewage
vent stack. sewer with or without industrial waste and without the
admixture of surface water, storm water or
66. Lateral In plumbing, it is a secondary pipe. In sewage,
drainage.
it is a common sewer to which no other
common sewer is tributary. It receives sewage 80. Secondary It is any branch in a building drian other than
only from the building sewer. branch the primary branch.
67. Main The _________ of any system of continuous piping is 81. Sewerage It is a comprehensive term including all
the principal artery of the system to which of sewage construction or collection, transportation,
branches may be connected. work pumping, treatment and dinal disposition of
sewage.
68. Main It is a sewer line or system that is directly
sewer controlled by public authority. 82. Siamese It is a Y connection used on fire lines so that
connection two lines of hose may be connected to a
69. Main vent It is the principal artery of the venting system
hydrant or to the same nozzle.
to which vent branches may be connected.
83. Standpipe A vertical pipe usually used for the storage of
70. Plumbing These are installed receptacles, devices, or
water, which is frequently under pressure.
fixtures appliances which are supplied with water, or
which receives or discharges liquid or liquid 84. Side vent It is a vent connecting to the drain pipe
borne waste, with or without discharge into the through a fitting at an angle not greater than
drainage system which may be directly or 45° or to the vertical.
indirectly connected
85. Stack It is the vertical main of a system of soil, waste,
71. Plumbing It includes the water supply distribution pipes, or vent pipe.
system plumbing fixtures and traps, soil, waste and vent
86. Stack It is a term applied to the location of fixtures in
pipes, house drain and house sewers, including
group relation to the stack so that by means of proper
their respective connections, devices and
fittings, vents may be reduced to a minimum.
appurtenances within the property lines of
premises; and water treating or water using 87. Stack vent It is the extension of a soil or waste stack
equipment. above the highest horizontal drain connected
to the stack. It is sometimes called waste vent
72. Relief Its primary function is to provide circulation of
or soil vent.
vent air between drainage and vent systems.
88. Stack It is a method of venting fixtures through the
73. Re-vent It is sometimes called individual vent. It is that
venting soil or waste stack.
pipe part of the vent pipeline which connects directly
with an individual waste or group of wastes, 89. Subsoil These are underground drain pipes that
underneath or at the back of the fixture, and drain receive sub-surface or seepage water only
extended either to the main or to tha branch and convey it to a place of disposal.
vent pipe. 90. Sump A pit or receptacle at a low point to which the
74. Riser It is a water supply pipe which extends liquid waste are drained.
vertically one full storey or more to convey 91. Trap It is a fitting or device so designed as to
water to branches or fixtures. provide when properly vented a liquid seal the
75. Rough-in It is the installation of all parts of the plumbing will prevent the back passage of air without
system which can be completed prior to the materially affecting the flow of sewage through
installation of fixtures. This includes drainage, it.
water supply, vent piping and the necessary
fixture supports.
92. Trap seal It is the maximum vertical depth of liquid that will retain, measured between the crown weir and top of the dip of the
trap.
93. Vent stack It is a vertical pipe installed primarily for the purpose of providing circulation of air to different parts of the drainage
system.
94. Vent These are pipes installed to provide a flow or circulation of air within the plumbing system to protect trap seals
system siphoning and back pressure.
95. Vertical It is a pipe installed in a vertical position or at an angle of not more than 45° with the vertical.
pipe
96. Water In a building or premises, It is a pipe that conveys water from the water service pipe to the plumbing fixtures and other
distributing water outlets.
pipe
97. Water It is the pipe from the water main or other source of water supply to the building served.
service
pipe
98. Water The _____________________ of a building or premises consist of the water service pipe, the water distributing pipes, and the
supply necessary connecting pipes, fittings, control valves, and all appurtenances in or adjacent to the building or premises.
system
99. wet vent It is a vent that receives the discharge from wastes other than the water closet.
100. Plumbing Refers to the administrative authority of plumbing works.
official