Modern plumbing illustrated; a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction .. . 0 s: o s o s roi 0 C3 i ^ <i/2op Volve rig. B. SijzJz 213 Cellarjs>Iied yvith Wafer. REFRIGERATOR LINES The size of a line of waste pipe serving refrigerators on twofloors should be at least 1^4 in., for three or four floors i^ in., andfor more than four floors 2 in. Galvanized wrought-iron pipe is generally used for this work,and all branches from this pipe should be made by means of forty-five-degree Y-branches. Refrigerator traps do not requi
Modern plumbing illustrated; a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction .. . 0 s: o s o s roi 0 C3 i ^ <i/2op Volve rig. B. SijzJz 213 Cellarjs>Iied yvith Wafer. REFRIGERATOR LINES The size of a line of waste pipe serving refrigerators on twofloors should be at least 1^4 in., for three or four floors i^ in., andfor more than four floors 2 in. Galvanized wrought-iron pipe is generally used for this work,and all branches from this pipe should be made by means of forty-five-degree Y-branches. Refrigerator traps do not require venting, as no conditions arepresent to cause siphonage of their contents. The waste pipe which serves a line of refrigerators should in nocase be connected direct to the plumbing system, but should dis-charge in the same manner as the single refrigerator, as describedunder Plate 8. All changes in direction and all offsets on the refrig-erator waste pipe should be provided with full-size cleanouts. Refrigerator pipes should never discharge upon the cellar flooror bottom, and wherever sewage privileges exist they should notdrip onto the ground. However, if necessary to discharge upon theground, such discharge should not take
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