Drainage By-Laws. Part 3

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This section is from the book "Sanitary Fittings And Plumbing", by G. Lister Sutcliffe. Also available from Amazon: Sanitary fittings and plumbing.

Drainage By-Laws. Part 3

Connection Of Iron Soil-Pipe, Etc., With Stoneware Drain, Etc

15. Any person who shall connect an iron soil-pipe, waste-pipe, ventilating-pipe, or trap with a stoneware or semivitrified ware pipe or drain communicating with a sewer, shall insert the beaded spigot end of such iron soil-pipe, waste-pipe, ventilating-pipe, or trap into a socket on such stoneware or semi-vitrified ware pipe or drain, making the joint with Portland cement; provided always that it shall be sufficient if he shall connect the iron soil-pipe, waste-pipe, ventilating-pipe, or trap with the stoneware or semi-vitrified ware pipe or drain in an equally suitable and efficient manner.

Connection Of Stoneware Trap Of Closet, Etc., With Iron Soil-Pipe, Etc

16. Any person who shall connect a stoneware or semi-vitrified ware trap or pipe with an iron soil-pipe, waste-pipe, trap or drain communicating with a sewer, shall insert such stoneware or semi-vitrified ware trap or pipe into a socket on such iron soil-pipe, waste-pipe, trap or drain, making the joint with Portland cement; provided always that it shall be sufficient if he shall connect the stoneware or semi-vitrified ware trap or pipe with the iron soil-pipe, waste-pipe, trap or drain in an equally suitable and efficient manner.

Ventilation Of Trap Of Water-Closet

17. Any person who shall construct any water-closet, the soil-pipe of which shall communicate with any sewer and shall be in connection with any other water-closet, shall cause the trap of every such water-closet to be ventilated into the open air at a point as high as the top of the soil-pipe, or into the soil-pipe at a point above the highest water-closet connected with such soil-pipe, and so that the ventilating-pipe shall have in all parts an internal diameter of not less than two inches and shall be connected with the arm of the soil-pipe or the trap at a point not less than three and not more than twelve inches from the highest part of the trap and on that side of the water seal which is nearest to the soil pipe. He shall cause the joint between the ventilating-pipe and the arm of the soil-pipe or the trap to be made in the direction of the flow.

He shall construct such ventilating-pipe in drawn lead or of heavy cast-iron. Provided that in any case where it shall be necessary to construct such ventilating-pipe within a building he shall construct such ventilating-pipe in drawn lead.

He shall construct such ventilating-pipe, whether inside or outside a building, so that if the pipe be of lead its weight shall not be less than 45 lbs. per 12 feet length, and if the pipe be of iron its thickness shall not be less than 3/16 inch and its weight not less than 25 lbs. per 6 feet length.

He shall in all cases cause the joints in and the connections to such ventilating-pipe to be made in the same manner as if such ventilating-pipe were a soil-pipe.

Slop-Sinks For Filth And Urinals

18. A person who shall erect a new building, and shall construct in connection with such building a slop-sink or urinal constructed or adapted to be used for receiving any solid or liquid excremental filth for conveyance to any sewer, shall construct or fix immediately beneath such slop-sink or urinal an efficient syphon trap, so constructed as to be capable of maintaining a sufficient water seal between such slop-sink or urinal and any drain, soil-pipe or waste-pipe in connection therewith. He shall not construct or fix in or in connection with such slop-sink or urinal any trap of the kind known as a bell-trap, a dip-trap, or a D-trap.

He shall as regards the ventilation of the trap of such slop-sink or urinal and the construction of the waste-pipe of such slop-sink or urinal comply with all the requirements of the preceding by-laws which are applicable to the ventilation of the trap of a water-closet and the construction of a soil-pipe, always provided that the internal diameter of the waste-pipe of any such slop-sink or urinal shall not be less than three inches, and where the internal diameter of such waste-pipe is three inches the weight of such pipe for every ten feet of length shall, if such waste-pipe be constructed of lead, be not less than 60 lbs., and if such waste-pipe be constructed of cast-iron the weight of such pipe for every six feet of length shall be not less than 40 lbs.

Maintenance In State Of Repair

19. The owner of any building shall as respects such building at all times maintain in a proper state of repair all pipes, drains and other means of communicating with sewers, and the traps and apparatus connected therewith.

Penalty

20. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing by-laws shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of two pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty of twenty shillings for each day after written notice of the offence given in accordance with section 202 of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855.

Application of By-laws to existing Buildings.

21. These by-laws shall, so far as practicable, apply to any person who shall construct or reconstruct any pipe or drain or other means of communicating with sewers, or any trap or apparatus connected therewith, so far as he shall effect any such works in any building erected before the confirmation of these by-laws, as if the same were being constructed in a building newly erected.