It will also assist in identifying the more complicated defects that the inspector should refer to the appropriate agencies. This chapter covers the major features of a residential plumbing system and the basic plumbing terms and principles the inspector must know and understand to identify housing code violations that involve plumbing. The inspector must make sure that the system moves waste safely from the home and protects the occupants from backup of waste and dangerous gases. The housing inspector’s prime concern while inspecting plumbing is to ensure the provision of a safe water supply system, an adequate drainage system, and ample and proper fixtures and equipment that do not contaminate water. A plumbing system consists of three parts: an adequate potable water supply system a safe, adequate drainage system and ample fixtures and equipment. Plumbing does not include drilling water wells installing water softening equipment or manufacturing or selling plumbing fixtures, appliances, equipment, or hardware. Plumbing may be defined as the practice, materials, and fixtures used in installing, maintaining, and altering piping, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances in connection with sanitary or storm drainage facilities, a venting system, and public or private water supply systems.
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”ĭepartment of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1965 Download Adobe Acrobat version of the manual Cdc-pdf
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