Journeyman Plumbing Test (Texas) with answers
Access (to) - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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) - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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) - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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) - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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.
Backsiphonage - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Any arrangement whereby
backflow is possible.
Backflow Preventer - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A backflow prevention assembly, a
backflow prevention device or other means or method to prevent backflow into the potable
water supply.
Bathroom Group - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A vent connecting one or more individual
vents with a vent stack or stack vent.
Building Drain - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔These regulations, subsequent amendments
thereto or any emergency rules or regulations that the administrative authority having
jurisdiction has lawfully adopted
, Combination Waste and Vent System - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A vent connecting at the junction of
two fixture drains or to a fixture branch and serving as a vent for both fixtures.
Conductor - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A pipe inside the building that conveys
stormwater from the roof to a storm or combined building drain.
Contamination - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 system to the other, with
the direction of flow depending on the pressure differential between the two systems
("Backflow").
Access (to) - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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) - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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) - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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) - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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.
Backsiphonage - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Any arrangement whereby
backflow is possible.
Backflow Preventer - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A backflow prevention assembly, a
backflow prevention device or other means or method to prevent backflow into the potable
water supply.
Bathroom Group - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A vent connecting one or more individual
vents with a vent stack or stack vent.
Building Drain - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔These regulations, subsequent amendments
thereto or any emergency rules or regulations that the administrative authority having
jurisdiction has lawfully adopted
, Combination Waste and Vent System - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A vent connecting at the junction of
two fixture drains or to a fixture branch and serving as a vent for both fixtures.
Conductor - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A pipe inside the building that conveys
stormwater from the roof to a storm or combined building drain.
Contamination - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔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 system to the other, with
the direction of flow depending on the pressure differential between the two systems
("Backflow").
