Tools & Materials
This tool tightens and loosens threaded pipes and fittings
What is a Pipe Wrench?
This plastic pipe is used for drain, waste, and vent systems. (DWV)
What is PVC?
The term for water moving backwards in a pipe.
What is backflow?
The first thing you should do before repairing a leaking pipe.
What is turn off the water supply?
This civilization is credited with the first indoor plumbing.
What is Ancient Rome?
This material is commonly used for water supply lines due to its flexibility.
What is PEX Pipe? (Cross-Linked Polyethylene)
This fitting is shaped like an "L" and can change the direction of pipe flow.
What is a 90?
The vertical pipe that carries waste from a fixture.
What is a drain?
This common substance can seal a small pipe leak temporarily.
This metal was commonly used for pipes in the 20th century.
What is lead?
This paste ensures a watertight seal on threaded pipe joints
What is pipe joint compound?
This T-shaped fitting can join three pipes together.
What is a tee?
This device prevents sewer gases from entering a building/room.
What is a P-trap?
This tool is used when a sink drain is slow and to remove hair from the pipe.
What is a drain snake?
The year the first flushable toilet was invented.
What is 1596?
This tool is used to clear clogs from drains manually
What is a plunger?
This material of pipe is never used for hot water.
What is CPVC?
The legal set of standards for plumbing in buildings.
What is the Plumbing code?
You use this tool to stop water flow to one fixture.
What is a shutoff valve?
The term "plumber" comes from the Latin word for this metal.
What is lead (plumbum)
This type of saw is used to cut plastic pipe
What is a handsaw?
These fittings are used to connect two different sized pipes.
What are reducers?
This is the downward slope of a drainpipe to ensure proper flow.
What is fall?
This is the faulty part if your toilet keeps running.
What is the flapper?
The city where the first water treatment plant was built in 1804.
What is Paisley, Scotland?