Plumbing

Plumbing

Referring to the skilled trade of working with pipes and plumbing fixtures that provide water or drain waste.

Industry: Construction

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Wrought copper fittings

Construction; Plumbing

Plumbing fittings used to connect copper tubes made of mechanically worked and toughened copper as opposed to an as-cast brittle copper.

Working water

Construction; Plumbing

Water used in a home for most general purposes including bathing and laundering.

Widespread

Construction; Plumbing

A style of bathroom lavatory faucet having separate spout and handles, usually 8" from centre of handle to handle.

Urinal

Construction; Plumbing

A plumbing fixture which receives only liquid body waste and conveys the waste through a trap seal into a gravity drainage system.

Universal plumbing code

Construction; Plumbing

A system of procedures designed to provide consumers with safe and sanitary plumbing systems and used throughout the United States by local jurisdictions.

Union

Construction; Plumbing

Three piece fitting that joins two sections of pipe, but allows them to be disconnected without cutting the pipe. Used primarily with steel pipe; never in a DWV system.

A measure of the variation in particle sizes of ion exchange resins and philtre media. It is defined as the ratio of the size of particle that has 60 percent of the material finer than itself, to the ...