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Plumbing
Referring to the skilled trade of working with pipes and plumbing fixtures that provide water or drain waste.
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Sweating
Construction; Plumbing
Term for soldering. Also formation of condensation on the outside of pipes or toilet tanks.
Surface pump
Construction; Plumbing
A mechanism for removing water or wastewater from a sump or wet well.
Penal valve
Construction; Plumbing
A commercial flush valve, so-named because of its use in penal institutions.
Perfect vacuum
Construction; Plumbing
Theoretically, space without matter in it. A perfect vacuum has never been obtained.
Perforated pipe
Construction; Plumbing
Pipe designed to discharge water through small, multiple, closely spaced orifices or nozzles, placed in a segment of its circumference for irrigation purposes.
