📝 [MP] QB ID: 020603 | Practice Problems 44

A vertical vent that is continuation of the drain to which it connects is a _____.

A piping system designed to control and convey excess ground water to a suitable location.

A unit which is equivalent to the flow rate of one (1) cubic foot of water per minute or 7 ½ gpm of water.

A fixture designed for the washing of hands or face, sometimes called washbasin.

When no public sewer intended to serve any lot or premises is available in any thoroughfare or right of way abutting such lot or premises, drainage piping from the building shall be connected to:

A condition in the distribution system where it could damage, or create condition that will damage components of the distribution system or create a nuisance is termed as:

Air pressure in drainage pipes greater than atmospheric pressure.

No clerical toilet shall be installed in any building unless first approved by the _____.

No clerical toilet shall be installed in any building unless first approved by the _____.

All water supply, drainage, venting system and all fixtures and their traps complete with their connection.

The minimum size of water supply pipe to a lavatory is:

Request for inspection by the master plumber to the administrative authority are required to be made in advance at least before the work to be tested.

The vertical distance that waste travels through open air between waste pipe and the indirect pipe waste receptor is _____.

A means of measurement for vertical waste or soil stack. It is equal to each floor level or storey in a building but are always least eight feet intervals.

A drain connecting the compartments of certain fixture to its trap is called _____.

A pipe fitting used to reduce the size of an opening is called a _____.

The minimum pressure that should be maintained for fixtures containing flush tank supplies shall _____.

A piece of metal fitted under another piece of that metal or wood over which water is expected to run is called _____.

When connecting plastic pipe to other types of piping, the specific transition intended shall be made with approved:

The inspection of a gas piping system prior to covering or concealing such pipe is called _____.

Copper tubing used for water piping under concrete slab within a building shall be _____.

The static water pressure at the water meter is 80 psi. at the outlet 40 ft above the meter, the static water pressure would be approximately _____.

Vent pipes may offset horizontally when the distance above the extreme overflow level of the fixture is at least:

The minimum plumbing permit charge for one “unit” is:

A drainage pipe use to carry main or surface water, cooling water and similar liquid waste is _____.

Cast iron piping is 10 ft length installed horizontally, shall be supported at intervals of not more than _____.

The flow of water which has gradual and regular variation over time and space is called _____.

The minimum size building supply allowed by the code for water is _____.

The critical level marking or backflow prevention device or vacuum breaker is a point established by the _____.

CPVC water pipe maybe used for hot and cold-water distribution systems.

Plugging an opening with oakum, lead or other materials that are rounded into place.

It is a box like collection device which is located on the exterior of the building and receives storm water on one side?

Caulked or screwed joints shall be applicable to _____.

The vent pipe serving a combination waste and vent system with a 4” drain pipe shall be at least:

Building sewer shall be tested by completely filing the sewer with water from the _____.

In the water supply piping slip joints may be used only on the _____.

The drainage pipe running from outside a buildings foundation to the main sewer is called _____.

The maximum lead content allowed in pipe used to convey potable water.

Is it permissible to place building sewer and drainage piping in the same trench with the water service pipe?

Upon issuance of plumbing permit, plumbing installation shall commenced within _____.

An automatic fill device, most commonly found in toilet tanks.

A vertical pipe to convey main waste.

The drainage system is subdivided into 8 different components, drainage, the waste, and the vent. This is referred to as _____.

That part of plumbing system extending from point 4 or 5 feet from the inner face of the foundation wall of building to the junction with another sewer.

Equipment which includes all valves and controls used in the plumbing system which are required to be accessible or readily accessible is called _____.

Rainwater piping located on the exterior of a building using galvanized sheet metal shall not be less than _____.

A term used which is contrary to sanitary principle or injurious to health is _____.

The maximum fixture unit loading allowed on 2inch waste stack is:

What valve is required a head of each water supplied appliance, each slip joints or nonmetallic connection?

When pipe makes an angle of not more than 45 degrees with the vertical, it is considered as?

A vent in a combustion waste and vent system shall be approximately equal in area to one half.

DWV material means _____.

Every passageway to an attic water heater shall have a solid continuous flooring not less than _____.

Every building in which plumbing fixture are installed shall have connection to a:

Allowing for friction and other pressure loss the available water pressure for fixture is _____.

The movement of water to the surface of a soil and into the soil below the surface is _____.

The size of supply piping outlet for any gas appliance shall be not less than _____.

The quantity of water required to be supplied to every plumbing fixture shall be represented by:

A pit or receptacle at a low point to which the liquid waste are drain.

A fixture vent pipe increased one pie size its entire length:

Fee for one unit of plumbing as plumbing permit is:

A storm drain sometimes located under the basement floor within the walls of the building.

What is the interval distance between clean-out along lateral line?

Which type of fire line installation has become obsolete and seldom installed?

Generally, what is the standard diameter of standpipe for buildings more than six stories tall?

A pressure regulator should be installed when pressure exceeds _____.

What is the copper content in brass fitting?

Is a device located at the bottom of the tank for the purpose of flushing water closet and similar fixtures.

The lowest portion of the interior part of any pipe or conduit that is not vertical.

What is the maximum height for the Hose Cabinet to be installed from the floor line?

A structure built, erected and framed of component structure parts designed for the housing, shelter, enclosure or support of person, animals or property of any kind.

A pipe connected from building gutter to the downspout.

A term used to described soil or waste system where all piping are threaded pipe tubing or other rigid construction using recessed drainage fitting to correspond to the types of piping.

Generally, what is the standard diameter of standpipe for buildings two or three stories in height?

The pressure available at the fixture or water outlet, allowance is made for pressure drop due at friction loss, head, meter and other losses in the system during maximum demand period.

In a line of piping is a combination of elbows or bends, which brings one section of the pipe out of line but into a line parallel with the original section.

An open, unoccupied space, bounded on two(2) or more sides by the walls of the building. An inner court is a court entirely within the exterior walls of the building. All other courts are outer courts.

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, but permitting the liquid to seep through the bottom and sides of the cesspool.

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 readily cleaned.

The normal force exerted by a homogeneous liquid or gas per unit of area on the wall of the container.

An impairment of the quality of the water to a degree which creates hazard to the public health and adversely affects the aesthetic and potable qualities of waters for domestic use.

Tube made of plastic material and colored black. The cross-sectional shape is circular and is denotes by its outside diameter or O.D.

In what year, NAMPAP President Jaime M. Cabase spearhead the updating of the Revised National Plumbing Code?

Number of lavatories for Assembly Places (Theater, Auditorium, Convention Halls, etc.) for public use for 350-female.

In 1902, he was the first Chief of Plumbing Construction and Inspection.

Consists of a loaded air inlet valve, an internally loaded check valve, two properly located test cocks and two isolation gate valves.

Number of urinal for Office for 420 person:

Revised Plumbing Code of 1999 was approved by President Joseph Estrada.

Plumbing Code for the City of Manila.

Drainage Fixture Unit of water closet, public installation:

When President Ramon Magsaysay did signed the R.A. 1378, otherwise known as the “PLUMBING LAW OF THE PHILIPPINES”?

Type of Joints for soft copper water tubing shall be made with fittings meeting approved standards. The tubing shall be expanded with a proper flaring tool.

National Plumbing Code prepared by NAMPAP was Promulgated and approved by Malacañang:

Drainage Fixture Unit of sink, bar, private 38 mm min waste:

Birth of Plumbing practice in the Philippines:

Approval of House Bill No. 962 also known as RA No. 1378:

The indirect waste lines carrying refrigeration waste shall not be smaller than one (1) inlet serving not more than 2.8 mm³ of refrigeration space.

Each grease trap shall have an approved water seal of not less than _____ in depth or the diameter of its outlet, whichever is greater.

Cleanouts may omitted on short horizontal drainage pipe installed at a slope of _____ or less from the vertical line (or an angle _____ bend) and:

Sizing of rainwater piping for two adjacent walls – add _____ of the total wall areas to the roof area.