System Design & Layout
The term for a vertical pipe that carries waste down and air up.
What is A stack
This type of valve is required on water heaters to relieve excess temperature and pressure.
What is a T&P relief valve?
This device is commonly used in commercial kitchens to trap grease before wastewater enters the sewer system.
What is a grease interceptor (or grease trap)?
Inspects boilers in the state of Georgia
Who is the state Fire marshall
This is the year RooterPLUS started in Atlanta
What is 1994
One way valve designed to allow air to enter the plumbing drainage system when negative pressures develop in the piping system
What is an Air admittance valve
This type of system balances hot water distribution by constantly circulating heated water.
What is a recirculation loop (or system)?
This plumbing fixture must be installed with a vacuum breaker to prevent backflow
What is a hose bibb (or exterior faucet)?
This system increases water pressure in tall commercial buildings to ensure adequate flow to upper floors.
What is a booster pump system?
Color of primer used in drainage systems
What is Purple
Aside from Gary, this is RooterPLUS's longest tenured employee
Who is Cowboy- 2004
This system separates the grease from the water
What is a safe waste system
The minimum trap arm length for a 2" pipe with a ¼” per foot slope before the vent.
What is 5ft
This type of commercial grease interceptor is typically installed underground and outside the building.
What is a gravity grease interceptor?
This type of piping is commonly used for underground commercial sewer lines because of its durability and resistance to corrosion.
What is ductile iron pipe?
Minimum size of a building drain
what is 1-1/4"
This is the month and year that RooterPLUS purchased Absolute Environmental
What is April, 2015
The minimum pressure required at the meter for a domestic water supply to ensure adequate flow at fixtures.
What is 20 psi?
This type of venting allows multiple fixtures on the same horizontal branch to share a common vent.
What is circuit venting
A trap primer is required in this scenario.
What is when a floor drain doesn’t regularly receive water?
The maximum allowable water pressure for most commercial plumbing systems without a pressure regulator.
What is 80 psi?
The maximum number of fixtures that can be connected to a single 2-inch vent stack.
What is 24 fixture units?
Gary learned plumbing and spent his early years working for this Nationwide plumbing Company
What is Rescue Rooter
What is 400Ft between or change in direction
Location of manhole
This plumbing design method minimizes pipe length by centrally locating the water heater and fixtures.
What is a manifold system (or home-run plumbing system)?
This is the plumbing term for using reclaimed or treated wastewater for toilet flushing or irrigation.
What is gray water reuse?
The maximum distance allowed between cleanouts on a commercial horizontal drainage pipe.
What is 100 feet?
The minimum number of required drinking fountains for an occupancy of 100.
What is 1?
This is the number of Jeffers/ Plumley Family members who have ever drawn a paycheck from RooterPLUS
What is 10
The method used to test the integrity of a newly installed drain-waste-vent (DWV) system.
What is a water (or air) pressure test?