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Journeyman Plumbing Test (Texas) Study Guide Solutions Access (to) - ANSWER-That which enables a fixture, appliance or equipment to be reached by ready access or by a means that first requires the removal or movement of a panel, door or similar obstruction. Air Break (Drainage System) - ANSWER-...

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Journeyman Plumbing Test (Texas) Study

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Access (to) - ANSWER✔✔-That which enables a fixture, appliance or equipment to be reached by ready

access or by a means that first requires the removal or movement of a panel, door or similar obstruction.


Air Break (Drainage System) - ANSWER✔✔-A piping arrangement in which a drain from a fixture,

appliance or device discharges indirectly into another fixture, receptacle or interceptor at a point below

the flood level rim and above the trap seal.


Air Gap (Drainage System) - ANSWER✔✔-The unobstructed vertical distance through the free

atmosphere between the outlet of the waste pipe and the flood level rim of the receptacle into which

the waste pipe is discharging. The distance between the waste pipe outlet and the flood level rim of the

receptor must be at least twice the diameter of the indirect waste pipe.


Air Gap (Water Distribution System) - ANSWER✔✔-The unobstructed vertical distance through the free

atmosphere between the lowest opening from any pipe or faucet supplying water to a tank, plumbing

fixture or other device and the flood level rim of the receptacle.


Appliance - ANSWER✔✔-Any apparatus or device that utilizes a fuel or a raw material as a fuel to

produce light, heat, power, refrigeration or air conditioning that compresses fuel gases.


Backflow - ANSWER✔✔-Pressure created by any means in the water distribution system, which by being

in excess of the pressure in the water supply mains causes a potential backflow condition.




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Backsiphonage - ANSWER✔✔-The backflow of potentially contaminated water into the potable water

system as a result of the pressure in the potable water system falling below atmospheric pressure of the

plumbing fixtures, pools, tanks or vats connected to the potable water distribution piping.


Backflow Connection - ANSWER✔✔-Any arrangement whereby backflow is possible.


Backflow Preventer - ANSWER✔✔-A backflow prevention assembly, a backflow prevention device or

other means or method to prevent backflow into the potable water supply.


Bathroom Group - ANSWER✔✔-A group of fixtures consisting of a water closet, lavatory, bathtub or

shower, including or excluding a bidet, an emergency floor drain or both. Such fixtures are located

together on the same floor level.


Branch Interval - ANSWER✔✔-A vertical measurement of distance, 8 feet (2438 mm) or more in

developed length, between the connections of horizontal branches to a drainage stack. Measurements

are taken down the stack from the highest horizontal branch connection.


Branch Vent - ANSWER✔✔-A vent connecting one or more individual vents with a vent stack or stack

vent.


Building Drain - ANSWER✔✔-That part of the lowest piping of a drainage system that receives the

discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside and that extends 30 inches (762 mm) in

developed length of pipe beyond the exterior walls of the building and conveys the drainage to the

building sewer.


Code - ANSWER✔✔-These regulations, subsequent amendments thereto or any emergency rules or

regulations that the administrative authority having jurisdiction has lawfully adopted




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Combination Waste and Vent System - ANSWER✔✔-A specially designed system of waste piping

embodying the horizontal wet venting of one or more sinks, lavatories, drinking fountains or floor drains

by means of a common waste and vent pipe adequately sized to provide free movement of air above the

flow line of the drain.


Pipe Material / Max Horizontal Bracing / Max Vertical Bracing - ANSWER✔✔-ABS / 4ft / 10ft


Cast-Iron / 5ft / 15ft


Copper Tubing (1 1/4 or smaller) / 6ft / 10ft


Copper Tubing (1 1/2 or larger) / 10ft / 10ft


PEX / 32in / 10ft


PVC / 4ft / 10ft


Common Vent - ANSWER✔✔-A vent connecting at the junction of two fixture drains or to a fixture

branch and serving as a vent for both fixtures.


Conductor - ANSWER✔✔-A pipe inside the building that conveys stormwater from the roof to a storm or

combined building drain.


Contamination - ANSWER✔✔-An impairment of the quality of the potable water that creates an actual

hazard to the public health through poisoning or the spread of disease by sewage, industrial fluids or

waste.


Cross Contamination - ANSWER✔✔-Any physical connection or arrangement between two otherwise

separate piping systems, one of which contains portable water and the other, either water of unknown

or questionable safety or stream, gas or chemical, whereby their exists the possibility for flow from one



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