Definition of Terms 1

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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. 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

An impairment of the quality of potable water which creates an actual hazard to public health through poisoning or spread of disease by sewage, industrial fluids or waste. Also, defined as High Hazard.

Contamination

It is a device designed and installed to separate and retain deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matters from normal wastes and permits normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.

Interceptor (Clarifier)

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. It is commonly used as a faucet for a pantry sink. Also, the term means the flexible tubing connection between a service pipe and a water main.

Gooseneck

A room space having a volume equal to at least 1.4 c.u. m. of the aggregate input rating of the fuel-burning appliance installed in that space. Rooms adjacent and open to the space where the appliance is installed, through openings not furnished with doors, are considered a part of the unconfined space.

Unconfined Space

____________ or street main is the water-supply pipe for public or community use.

Water Main

Also called a “sitz” bath.

Bidet

A drain connecting the compartments of a set of fixtures to a trap or connecting other permitted fixtures to a common trap.

Continuous Waste

A tank located above or integral with a water closet, urinal, or similar fixtures for flushing or removing excrement in the fixture.

Flush Tank

A receptacle in which liquids are retained for a sufficient period of time to allow settleable material to deposit.

Catch Basin

A pipe, which conveys only wastewater or liquid waste, free of fecal matter.

Waste Pipe

Whenever any work regulated by this Code is dangerous to human life or detrimental to health and property and Inadequate or unsafe water supply and or sewage disposal system.

Nuisance

B&S means Brown and Sharpe (Specification) or ____________ (Ends of Pipes)

Bell and Spigot

A room equipped with a shower stall or bathtub.

Bathroom

It is any pipe or fitting installed in a horizontal position or which forms an angle of not more than forty-five (45) degrees with the horizontal plane.

Horizontal Pipe

A person who specializes in the welding of pipes and holds a valid certificate of competency from a recognized testing agency, based on the requirements of the regulating authority.

Pipeline Welder

Minimum branch interval

2.43 m

A cylindrical conduit or conductor conforming to the particular dimensions commonly known as "pipe size" and is denoted by its interior diameter or I.D.

Pipe

Colored black. The cross-sectional shape is normally OVAL and is denoted by its O.D.

Polybutylene (PB)

Includes all valves and controls used in plumbing systems which are accessible.

Regulating Equipment

In Plumbing Code, referred to as "Low Hazard"

Pollution

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. ________ shall also mean water service connection.

Building Supply

The Administrative Authority and includes any other law enforcement agency concerned by any provision of this Code, whether such agency is specifically named or not.

Department Having Jurisdiction

Any wastewater containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution and may include liquids containing chemicals in solution.

Sewage

The water supply pipe between the fixture supply pipe and the water-distributing pipe.

Fixture Branch

__________ is the minimum cross-sectional area at the point of water supply discharge measured or expressed in terms of: (1) the diameter of a circle; (2) if the opening is not circular, the diameter of a circle of equivalent cross-sectional area. (This is applicable also to air gap installation.)

Effective Opening

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, vat, or fixture.

Air Gap, Water Distribution

An unobstructed top open edge of a fixture.

Rin

A person technically and legally qualified and licensed to practice the profession of Master Plumbing without limitations in accordance with Republic Act 1378. having passed the examination conducted by the Professional Regulation Commission has received a Certificate of Registration from the Board of Master Plumbing and possessing the current license to practice.

Master Plumber

_________ are in ground tanks designed to capture dirt, sand, to keep these substances out of our wastewater system.

Sand Interceptor

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

Branch

A loosely lined excavation in the ground. which receives the discharge of a septic tank and designed to permit the effluent from the septic tank to seep through pit bottom and sides.

Seepage Pit

_________ shall mean all buildings or structures that are not defined as private or private use.

Public

This term means the flexible tubing connection between a service pipe and a water main.

Gooseneck

Not included in a Plumbing Unit

(1) Septic Tank

It is an agency accepted by the Administrative Authority in the business of listing or labelling and which maintains a periodic inspection program on current production of listed models and makes available a published report of such listing where specific information is included tint the product has been tested against approved standards and found safe for use in a specific manner.

Listing Agency

Part of the building drain that is the single sloping drain from the base of a stack to its junction with the main building drain.

Primary Branch

A valve located at the end of a water pipe through of which water can be drawn from or held within the pipe

Faucet

A hose fitting with clapper valves for combining the flow from two or more lines of hose into a single stream. The inlet fitting of a fire standpipe located above ground level.

Siamese Connection

Wastes which require some special methods of handling such as the use of indirect waste piping and receptors; corrosion-resistant piping, sand, oil or grease interceptors; condensers or other pretreatment facilities.

Special Waste

The top edge of a receptacle from where water overflows.

Flood Level Rim

That portion of a fixture drain between a trap and the vent.

Trap Arm

It is the pipeline from the building to the public or street storm drainage system.

House Storm Sewer

Sometimes called a wash basin.

Lavatory

Any one of a special class of device or equipment intended to perform a special plumbing function. Its operation and/or control may be dependent upon one or more energized components, such as motors, controls, heating elements and pressure-temperature-sensing elements. Such device or equipment may operate automatically through one or more of the following actions: a time cycle, a temperature range, a pressure range, a measured volume or weight; or the device or equipment may be manually adjusted or controlled by the user or operator.

Plumbing Appliance

A standpipe having no permanent water inside the pipe.

Dry Standpipe

The pipe or tubing that connects the outlet of a plumbing fixture to the trap.

Tailpiece

A standpipe where water pressure is maintained at all times.

Wet Standpipe

________ are cast iron soil pipes with plain ends connected together with bolted stainless steel bands and neoprene gaskets.

Hubless Pipes

Any and all liquid or water-borne waste from industrial or commercial processes, except domestic sewage.

Industrial Waste

Device or means to prevent the flow of liquid from returning to the source of supply. Also called a vacuum breaker.

Backflow Preventer

An air pressure less than atmospheric. Also, implies siphonage in piping system.

Vacuum

__________ is measured along its centerline.

Length of Pipe

In sewerage, a common sewer to which no other branch sewer is connected. It receives sewage from building sewer service connections only.

Lateral

That portion of a vent pipe through where wastewater also flows through.

Wet Vent

Shall mean direct access without the necessity of removing any panel, door or similar obstruction.

Readily Accessible

Are approved-type installed receptacles, devices, or appliances supplied with water or receive liquid or liquid-borne wastes and discharge such wastes into the drainage system to which they may be directly or indirectly connected. Industrial or commercial tanks, vats and similar processing equipment are not plumbing fixtures, but may be connected to or discharged into approved traps or plumbing fixtures as provided for in this Code.

Plumbing Fixtures

Who establishes the Critical Level Marking on Backflow Prevention devices

Testing Laboratory

A branch vent that performs its functions for two (2) or more traps.

Group Vent

A building designed as a home by the owner of such building, and shall be the only dwelling located on a parcel of ground with the usual accessory building.

Single Family Dwelling

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

Combustible Construction is any structure which any part of its structural framework will ignite and burn at a temperature of _________.

756 degrees centigrade or less

A room or space having a volume of less than 1.4 cu. m with 250 kilogram calorie of the aggregate input rating of all fuel-burning appliances installed in that space.

Confined Space

A horizontal vent connecting one or more individual vertical back vents with the vent stack or stack vent.

Branch Vent

Per Plumbing Code, PVC Drainpipes with toxic components are colored ___________.

All of these

It is a device, which discharges a predetermined quantity of water into fixtures for flushing purposes and is actuated by direct water pressure.

Flushometer Valve

This word, when used alone, shall mean these regulations, subsequent amendments thereto or any emergency rule or regulation which the Administrative Authority having jurisdiction may lawfully adopt.

Code

Pipes installed to provide flow of air to or from a drainage system or to provide a circulation of air within such system to protect traps seals from siphonage and back pressure.

Vent System

Any pipe, which conveys the discharge of water closet, urinal or fixtures having similar functions, with or without the discharges from other fixtures to the building drain or building sewer.

Soil Pipe

The vertical portion of a rainwater conductor.

Downspout

A vertical shaft for the installation of different pipe stacks.

Chase

The liquid and water-home wastes derived from ordinary living processes, free from industrial wastes and of such character that permit satisfactory disposal without special treatment. It is discharged into the public sewer or into a private sewage disposal system.

Domestic Sewage

Includes all the pipings 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 or a public sewage treatment or disposal plant.

Drainage System

An underground drainpipe that receives only subsurface or seepage water and convey it to a sump for disposal by gravity flow or by lift pump.

Subsoil Drain

In a line of piping is a combination of elbows or bends, which brings one section of the pipe out of line but into a line parallel with the original section.

Offset

A building sewer, which receives the discharge from more than one building drain and conveys it to a public sewer, private sewage disposal system, or other points of disposal.

Private Sewer

Building sewer begins ________ meters outside the building wall.

0.6

Supports, hangers, anchors, brackets, cradles are devices for holding and securing pipes and fixtures to walls, ceiling, floors or structural members.

Supports

It is an arbitrary quantity in terms of which the load-producing effects or water requirements on the plumbing system of different kinds of plumbing fixtures are expressed in some arbitrarily chosen scale. It is equivalent to a rate of flow at 28.3 liters per minute (1 cu. ft./ minute).

Fixture Unit

A sewer intended to receive sanitary sewage with or without pre-treated industrial wastes and without the admixture of rain or ground water.

Sanitary Sewer

Grease interceptor min. capacity

3 cu.m.

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.

Backvent Pipe

An open, unoccupied space, bounded on two (2) or more sides by the walls of the building. An inner court is a court entirely within the exterior walls of a building.

Court

The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for its maintenance.

Repair

A tool for straightening or bending lead pipe.

Bending Pin (or Iron)

A vertical opening through a building for elevators, dumbwaiters, lights, ventilation or similar purposes.

Shaft

A controlled outlet of a pipeline to discharge liquid or detritus.

Blow-off

The pressure existing without any flow motion.

Static Pressure

In plumbing, a secondary pipeline. In sewerage, a common sewer to which no other branch sewer is connected. It receives sewage from building sewer service connections only.

Lateral

An open, unoccupied space, other than a court, unobstructed from the ground to the sky, except where specifically provided in this Code.

Yard

MSTE

MSTE

MSTE 2

MSTE 2

PSAD

PSAD

HGE

HGE

LOOKS FAM (MSTE)

LOOKS FAM (MSTE)

MPLE

MPLE

Weekly Test 1

Weekly Test 1

Weekly Test 2

Weekly Test 2

Weekly Test 3

Weekly Test 3

Refresher SPDI 1

Refresher SPDI 1

Refresher SPDI 1

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Alley

Contamination

Interceptor (Clarifier)

Gooseneck

Unconfined Space

____________ or street main is the water-supply pipe for public or community use.

Water Main

Also called a “sitz” bath.

Bidet

A drain connecting the compartments of a set of fixtures to a trap or connecting other permitted fixtures to a common trap.

Continuous Waste

A tank located above or integral with a water closet, urinal, or similar fixtures for flushing or removing excrement in the fixture.

Flush Tank

A receptacle in which liquids are retained for a sufficient period of time to allow settleable material to deposit.

Catch Basin

A pipe, which conveys only wastewater or liquid waste, free of fecal matter.

Waste Pipe

Whenever any work regulated by this Code is dangerous to human life or detrimental to health and property and Inadequate or unsafe water supply and or sewage disposal system.

Nuisance

B&S means Brown and Sharpe (Specification) or ____________ (Ends of Pipes)

Bell and Spigot

A room equipped with a shower stall or bathtub.

Bathroom

It is any pipe or fitting installed in a horizontal position or which forms an angle of not more than forty-five (45) degrees with the horizontal plane.

Horizontal Pipe

A person who specializes in the welding of pipes and holds a valid certificate of competency from a recognized testing agency, based on the requirements of the regulating authority.

Pipeline Welder

Minimum branch interval

2.43 m

A cylindrical conduit or conductor conforming to the particular dimensions commonly known as "pipe size" and is denoted by its interior diameter or I.D.

Pipe

Colored black. The cross-sectional shape is normally OVAL and is denoted by its O.D.

Polybutylene (PB)

Includes all valves and controls used in plumbing systems which are accessible.

Regulating Equipment

In Plumbing Code, referred to as "Low Hazard"

Pollution

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. ________ shall also mean water service connection.

Building Supply

The Administrative Authority and includes any other law enforcement agency concerned by any provision of this Code, whether such agency is specifically named or not.

Department Having Jurisdiction

Any wastewater containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution and may include liquids containing chemicals in solution.

Sewage

The water supply pipe between the fixture supply pipe and the water-distributing pipe.

Fixture Branch

Effective Opening

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, vat, or fixture.

Air Gap, Water Distribution

An unobstructed top open edge of a fixture.

Rin

Master Plumber

_________ are in ground tanks designed to capture dirt, sand, to keep these substances out of our wastewater system.

Sand Interceptor

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

Branch

A loosely lined excavation in the ground. which receives the discharge of a septic tank and designed to permit the effluent from the septic tank to seep through pit bottom and sides.

Seepage Pit

_________ shall mean all buildings or structures that are not defined as private or private use.

Public

This term means the flexible tubing connection between a service pipe and a water main.

Gooseneck

Not included in a Plumbing Unit

(1) Septic Tank

Listing Agency

Part of the building drain that is the single sloping drain from the base of a stack to its junction with the main building drain.

Primary Branch

A valve located at the end of a water pipe through of which water can be drawn from or held within the pipe

Faucet

A hose fitting with clapper valves for combining the flow from two or more lines of hose into a single stream. The inlet fitting of a fire standpipe located above ground level.

Siamese Connection

Special Waste

The top edge of a receptacle from where water overflows.

Flood Level Rim

That portion of a fixture drain between a trap and the vent.

Trap Arm

It is the pipeline from the building to the public or street storm drainage system.

House Storm Sewer

Sometimes called a wash basin.

Lavatory

Plumbing Appliance

A standpipe having no permanent water inside the pipe.

Dry Standpipe

The pipe or tubing that connects the outlet of a plumbing fixture to the trap.

Tailpiece

A standpipe where water pressure is maintained at all times.

Wet Standpipe

________ are cast iron soil pipes with plain ends connected together with bolted stainless steel bands and neoprene gaskets.

Hubless Pipes

Any and all liquid or water-borne waste from industrial or commercial processes, except domestic sewage.

Industrial Waste

Device or means to prevent the flow of liquid from returning to the source of supply. Also called a vacuum breaker.

Backflow Preventer

An air pressure less than atmospheric. Also, implies siphonage in piping system.

Vacuum

__________ is measured along its centerline.

Length of Pipe

In sewerage, a common sewer to which no other branch sewer is connected. It receives sewage from building sewer service connections only.

Lateral

That portion of a vent pipe through where wastewater also flows through.

Wet Vent

Shall mean direct access without the necessity of removing any panel, door or similar obstruction.

Readily Accessible

Plumbing Fixtures

Who establishes the Critical Level Marking on Backflow Prevention devices

Testing Laboratory

A branch vent that performs its functions for two (2) or more traps.

Group Vent

A building designed as a home by the owner of such building, and shall be the only dwelling located on a parcel of ground with the usual accessory building.

Single Family Dwelling

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

Combustible Construction is any structure which any part of its structural framework will ignite and burn at a temperature of _________.

756 degrees centigrade or less

A room or space having a volume of less than 1.4 cu. m with 250 kilogram calorie of the aggregate input rating of all fuel-burning appliances installed in that space.

Confined Space

A horizontal vent connecting one or more individual vertical back vents with the vent stack or stack vent.

Branch Vent

Per Plumbing Code, PVC Drainpipes with toxic components are colored ___________.

All of these

It is a device, which discharges a predetermined quantity of water into fixtures for flushing purposes and is actuated by direct water pressure.

Flushometer Valve

This word, when used alone, shall mean these regulations, subsequent amendments thereto or any emergency rule or regulation which the Administrative Authority having jurisdiction may lawfully adopt.

Code

Pipes installed to provide flow of air to or from a drainage system or to provide a circulation of air within such system to protect traps seals from siphonage and back pressure.

Vent System

Any pipe, which conveys the discharge of water closet, urinal or fixtures having similar functions, with or without the discharges from other fixtures to the building drain or building sewer.

Soil Pipe

The vertical portion of a rainwater conductor.

Downspout

A vertical shaft for the installation of different pipe stacks.

Chase

Domestic Sewage

Drainage System

An underground drainpipe that receives only subsurface or seepage water and convey it to a sump for disposal by gravity flow or by lift pump.

Subsoil Drain

In a line of piping is a combination of elbows or bends, which brings one section of the pipe out of line but into a line parallel with the original section.

Offset

A building sewer, which receives the discharge from more than one building drain and conveys it to a public sewer, private sewage disposal system, or other points of disposal.

Private Sewer

Building sewer begins ________ meters outside the building wall.

0.6

Supports, hangers, anchors, brackets, cradles are devices for holding and securing pipes and fixtures to walls, ceiling, floors or structural members.

Supports

Fixture Unit

A sewer intended to receive sanitary sewage with or without pre-treated industrial wastes and without the admixture of rain or ground water.

Sanitary Sewer

Grease interceptor min. capacity

3 cu.m.

Backvent Pipe

An open, unoccupied space, bounded on two (2) or more sides by the walls of the building. An inner court is a court entirely within the exterior walls of a building.

Court

The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for its maintenance.

Repair

A tool for straightening or bending lead pipe.

Bending Pin (or Iron)

A vertical opening through a building for elevators, dumbwaiters, lights, ventilation or similar purposes.

Shaft

A controlled outlet of a pipeline to discharge liquid or detritus.

Blow-off

The pressure existing without any flow motion.

Static Pressure

In plumbing, a secondary pipeline. In sewerage, a common sewer to which no other branch sewer is connected. It receives sewage from building sewer service connections only.

Lateral

An open, unoccupied space, other than a court, unobstructed from the ground to the sky, except where specifically provided in this Code.

Yard