The Construction of the Small House: A Simple and Useful Source of Information of the Methods of Building Small American Homes, for Anyone Planning to BuildWalsh, H. Vandervoort (Harold Vandervoort)
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The Construction of the Small House: A Simple and Useful Source of Information of the Methods of Building Small American Homes, for Anyone Planning to Build
Walsh, H. Vandervoort (Harold Vandervoort)
Building; Dwellings
Where there are two fixtures, such as the lavatory and the bathtub,
with 1½-inch branch vents coming from the traps, these may be joined
into one main branch vent, which need not be more than 1½ inches in
diameter. The pitch of the branch vents entering into the main vent
should be at an angle of about 45 degrees, so that all rust scale will
drop down into the fixture outlet and be washed away.
The main vent, which runs parallel with the main soil-line, needs to
be only 2 inches in diameter, and should be branched in at the bottom
and the top to the main soil-line, as shown in the drawings. The
material of which both main vent and branch vent is made should be
galvanized-iron piping.
The fresh-air inlet, the house-trap, the clean-outs, and all other
parts of the system are the same as was shown for the simpler method of
plumbing.
_Rain-Water Drainage_
The small house need not drain off its roof-water into the plumbing
system, if the plumbing code does not require it. The simplest and
easiest method to dispose of it is to collect the water in gutters,
lead it down the waterspouts into pipes which terminate in a dry well
in the ground. Small roofs over porches and back doors need not even
have the leaders, but spill the roof-water out onto the ground, where a
stone has been placed to prevent the undermining of the surface of the
lawn by the wearing action of the water stream.
In outlying city districts where the sewers have not yet been installed
it is customary to carry the roof-water in pipes below the level of the
sidewalk to the gutters of the street or to a leaching cesspool which
is independent of the cesspool used for sewage disposal, and which is
practically the same thing as a dry well, for the bottom is made with
gravel through which the rain-water seeps off into the surrounding soil.
Wherever the rain-leaders must be connected to the drainage system of
the house, the sheet-metal leaders are inserted into cast-iron pipes
called shoes at the base, which in turn are trapped on the inside
of the cellar wall and connected with the house-drain. It is always
best to try to trap a group of leaders to one trap rather than use a
separate trap for each leader.
_Tests and Precautions_
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