Modern plumbing illustrated : a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction ... . MricJt ^ Vertical<3tocIa. j^^ j^i ^^^. p>ipe -SupcS/iftiisQ SUPPORTING AND RUNNING OF SOIL PIPE Too much care cannot be exercised in the running and support-ing of soil pipes. They are generally made tight by caulked leadjoints, which are easily made defective when moved in any way,owing to the great weight and leverage of the pipe. Few plumbingsystems that have been in use for a number of years would showperfect joints under test, and in many
Modern plumbing illustrated : a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction ... . MricJt ^ Vertical<3tocIa. j^^ j^i ^^^. p>ipe -SupcS/iftiisQ SUPPORTING AND RUNNING OF SOIL PIPE Too much care cannot be exercised in the running and support-ing of soil pipes. They are generally made tight by caulked leadjoints, which are easily made defective when moved in any way,owing to the great weight and leverage of the pipe. Few plumbingsystems that have been in use for a number of years would showperfect joints under test, and in many cases this condition is due toimperfect supporting of the pipe. When a vertical line drops to the cellar bottom, it should restupon a thick flagging or upon a brick or stone foundation, as in Fig. E. Care should be taken in building such a pier during the winterseason that there is no frost beneath it, which would allow the pierand stack to settle when it thawed. Brick or stone piers should also support a horizontal line run-ning above the cellar bottom, particularly at points where verticalstacks enter it. The use of piers to support horizontal lines runningbelow the
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