CE 112

PRINCIPLES
1. All PREMISES to be PROVIDED W/ CLEAN WATER
2. Fixtures to be supplied with water in sufficient VOLUME AND PRESSURE
3. Plumbing must use minimum amount of water w/ proper performance.
4. to prevent dangers from EXPLOSION.
5. Buildings connected to PUBLIC SEWER must connect its fixtures to it.
6. to meet the basic requirements of SANITATION and personal HYGIENE
7. Fixtures must be made of non-absorbent materials, free from concealed fouling
surfaces and located in ventilated enclosure
8. Drainage system designed against fouling, and with CLEANOUTS
9. NAMPAPAPPROVED materials
10. Fixture connected to drainage system to be provided with water-sealed trap
11. adequate CIRCULATION OF AIR free from siphonage.
12. VENT TERMINALS shall extend to the outer air
13. subjected to such tests to effectively disclose all leaks and DEFECTS in the
workmanship.
14. NO SEWAGE HARM
15. Proper protection shall be provided to prevent CONTAMINATION.
16. No water closet shall be located in a room or compartment which is not PROPERLY
LIGHTED AND VENTILATED.
17. Whenever a public sewer system is not available, a septic tank may substituted
18. suitable provision shall be made to prevent its OVERFLOW in the building.
19. REGISTERED MASTER PLUMBERS
20. All plumbing fixtures shall be installed properly spaced, to be ACCESSIBLE for their
intended use.
21. preservation of the STRENGTH OF STRUCTURAL MEMBERS
22. Sewage not to be discharged into the ground unless TREATED

• The normal force exerted by a homogeneous liquid or gas, per unit of area on the wall
of the container that exists without any flow or motion. (STATIC)
• Any VERTICAL PIPE for drainage is referred to as (STACK)
• Any HORIZONTAL PIPE is referred to as (BRANCH)
• Plans which provide necessary support to the primary activities, operation, and/or basic
architectural and structural plans. (ANCILLARY)
• The installation of all pipings and fitting parts of the plumbing system, which can be
completed prior to the installation of fixtures and accessories. (ROUGHING IN)
• The LOWEST horizontal piping of the drainage system up to 600mm outside of the
building wall. (BUILDING DRAIN)
• An approved plumbing fixture or device of such materials, shape and capacity to
Adequately receive the discharge from indirect waste pipes, constructed and located to
be readily cleaned → RECEPTOR,
• 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,
• The water in the trap between the dip and the crown weir. → TRAP,
• The pipe that connects from building gutter to the downspout or conductor. → ROOF
LEADER,
• In a line of piping is a combination of elbows or bends, which brings one station of the
pipe out of line but into a line parallel with the original section. → OFFSET,
• The lowest portion of the interior part of any pipe or conduit that is not vertical. →
INVERT
• The art & technique of installing pipes, fixtures and other apparatuses in buildings for
bringing in the supply, liquids, substances and/or ingredients and removing them; and
such water, liquid, and other carried wastes hazardous to health, sanitation, life,
property → PLUMBING,
• The practice of surveys, reports, design, direction, management, consultation, and
investigation of water purification plants, water collection and distribution systems,
reservoirs, drainage and sewer systems, sewage treatment plants, malaria control
structures, sewage disposal tanks, and other structures for public health and welfare,
projects relating to stream pollution, insect and vermin control or eradication, rural and
camp sanitation, and milk and food sanitation, and systems for the prevention of
atmospheric pollution or the control of indoor air, esp. the air of working spaces in
industrial establishments. → SANITARY ENGINEERING,
• The law that regulates the sanitary engineering profession. → RA 1364,
• The law that regulates the plumbing profession. → RA 1378,
• This is a service in the form of consultations, designing, preparations of plans,
specifications; estimates, erection, installation and supervision of work including the
inspection and acceptance of materials used therein; extension and alteration of all
pipings to fixtures, appliances, appurtenances in connection with any of the following:
storm and sanitary drainage, facilities of buildings, the sanitary venting of fixtures, hot
or cold water supply systems within or adjacent to any building, storm drains, sewerage
system of any premises and/or in connection with any public disposal or any acceptable
terminal → PLUMBING ENGINEERING
• It is observed as 7.50 gallons of water that is drained in a 1 1/4 inch pipe in a minute.
(FIXTURE UNIT)
• 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.
(FIXTURE UNIT)
• Plans which are not necessary to be provided but instead they provide supplementary
or additional help and support to the basic plans. (AUXILIARY PLANS)
• A fixture for washing the middle private part esp. the genitals. → SITZ BATH,
• The flow of water other than its intended source. → BACKFLOW,
• A system wherein the drain 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 DRAIN,
• This is a service in the form of consultations, designing, preparations of plans,
specifications; estimates, erection, installation and supervision of work including the
inspection and acceptance of materials used therein; extension and alteration of all
pipings to fixtures, appliances, appurtenances in connection with any of the following:
storm and sanitary drainage, facilities of buildings, the sanitary venting of fixtures, hot
or cold water supply systems within or adjacent to any building, storm drains, sewerage
system of any premises and/or in connection with any public disposal or any acceptable
terminal → AIR BREAK,
• The flowing back of contaminated water due to negative pressure. → BACK
SIPHONAGE
• A cylindrical conduit or conductor, denoted by its interior diameter. (PIPE)
• A cylindrical conduit or conductor, denoted by its exterior diameter. (TUBE)
• A device, which discharges a predetermined quantity of water into fixtures for flushing
purposes and is actuated by direct water pressure. → FLUSHOMETER VALVE,
• A non-watertight lined excavation in the ground which receives the discharge of a
sanitary drainage system or part thereof, designed to retain the organic matter and solids
discharging therefrom. → CESSPOOL,
• A water closet consisting of a continuous trough containing water. The trough extends
under two or more adjacent seats → LATRINE,
• A water-tight receptacle which receives the discharge of a sanitary plumbing system or
part thereof, designed and constructed to retain solids, digest organic matter through a
period of detention and to allow the liquids to discharge into the soil outside of the tank
→ SEPTIC TANK
• The part of the LOWEST horizontal piping of the drainage system that starts 600mm
from outside of the building wall. (BUILDING SEWER)
• Pipe or opening used for ensuring the circulation of air in a plumbing system and for
relieving the negative pressure exerted on trap seals → VENT PIPE,
• The suction created by the flow of liquids in pipes. → SIPHONAGE,
• Any wastewater containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution and
may include liquids containing chemicals in solution → SEWAGE,
• Pipe conveying fecal matter and wastewater. → SOIL PIPE,
• An underground conduit for carrying off drainage water and waste matter → SEWER,
• Pipe which conveys only wastewater or liquid waste, free of fecal matter → WASTE
PIPE,
• A comprehensive term, including all constructions for collection, transportation.
pumping. Treatment and final disposition of sewage → SEWERAGE

✓ What type of PE pipe used for both hot and cold supply line? POLYETHYLENE
CROSSLINK
✓ Thickest and green in color type of copper pipe (TYPE K)
✓ We don't usually clean our DWV pipe system because of this. The self-cleaning ability
of pipes. (SCOURING)
✓ How are copper tubing joined? (FLARING)
✓ A rigid thermoplastic pipe, usually comes in white or green color, is highly
recommended for HOT & COLD water distribution as it performs better than PVC.
(POLYPROPYLENE RANDOM)
✓ How are rigid thermoplastic pipes joined? (FUSION WELDING)
✓ Method of joining hubbed CISPs. (CAULKING)
✓ How are concrete pipes joined? (CEMENT)
✓ A pipe alloy of steel and zinc, usually used for cold water distribution only.
(GALVANIZED IRON)
✓ Thinnest and yellow in color type of copper pipe. (TYPE DWV)
✓ The most common and easiest joining method of PVC unthreaded pipes. (SOLVENT
WELDING)
✓ These are unwanted, violent, or turbulent flow or current inside the pipe. (EDDIES)

➢ FIITINGS – parts being used to connect different pipes or section of tubng

1. NIPPLE – CONNECTS TWO MALE PIPE. THREADED OUTSIDE AND WELDED
INSIDE (LONG, SHORT, & CLOSED)
2. COUPLING – CONNECTS 2 SAME TYPE OF PIPES AND SAME DIAMETER
(NORMAL, CMPRESSION & SLIP)
3. BUSHING – THREADED INSIDE & OUTSIDE
4. ELBOW – USED FOR CHANGE OF DIRECTIONS. ( 90, 45, & 22.5)
5. PLUG AND CAP – USED TO CLOSE UP PIPE OPENINGS DURING
INSPECTIONS AND REPAIR/ FOR FUTURE CONNECTIONS.
6. REDUCER – REDUCE THE SIZEOF THE FLOW BY MAKING IT SMALLER.
(COCENTRIC, ECCENTRIC)
7. CROSS – HAS 4 OPENINGS IN DIFF DIRECTIONS. CONNECTS 4 PIPES.
8. TEE - CONNECTS 3 PIPES. STURDIER THAN CROSS FITTINGS (STRAIGHT,
REDUCING)
9. UNION – EASY TO REMOVE MAKING THEM CONVENIENT FOR
MAINTENANCE/FUTURE REPLACEMENT.
10. WYE – ALLOWS TO CHANGE EVALUATIONS AND TO BRANCH OUT INTO
WATER LINES OR DRAINS. (EQUAL WYE LATERAL & UNEQUAL WYE
LATERAL)
11. VALVE – ALLOWS THE FLOW OF FLUIDS TO BE ADJUSTED. REGULATES,
CONTROL & DIRECTS THE FLOW OF FLUIDS.
➢ VALVES –
1. GATE VALVE – BY RAISING OR LOWERING THE GATE. NEVER USE TO
REDUCE THE PRESURE.
2. GLOBE VALVE – TO THROTLE OR LIMIT THE FLOW OF WATER.
REGULATE/ADJUST FLOW
3. BALL VALVE – WITH A ROTATING SPHERE THAT HAS A HOLE. DO NOT
ALLOW FOR PRECISE FLOW CONTROL. IT IS OPEN WHEN THE LEVER IS
PARALLEL TO THE PIPE.
4. BUTTERFLY VALVE – HAVE A DISK EQUAL TO THE SIZE OF THE INSIDE
DIAMETER. ALLOW FOR FAIRLY PRECISE CONTROL OF FLOW.
5. PRESSURE REDUCING VALVE – SPRING AND DIAPHRAGM
 6. CHECK VALVE – USED IN KEEPING THE WATER TO FLOW IN 1 DIRECTION.
PREVENTS BACKFLOW.
7. ANGLE VALVE – PROVIDE EASY & CONVENIENT SHUT-OFF MECHANISM

HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE PIPE – MADE FROM PETROLEUM. MOST

VERSATILE MATERIALS. HDPE PLASTICS HAS A HIGH-IMPACT RESISTANCE
AND MELTING POINT.
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