Texas plumbing Exam with correct answers
A piping arrangement in which a drain from a fixture, appliance, or device discharge
indirectly into a fixture, receptacle or interceptor at a point below the flood level rim of the
receptacle so installed as to prevent backflow or siphonage - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔Air break ( drainage system)
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.
- **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Air gap (drainage system)
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. - **🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Backflow
Any arrangement whereby backflow can occur. - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔Backflow connection
Air gap - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Backflow Preventer
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. - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Bathroom group
A vertical measurement of distance 8 feet or more between connections of horizontal
branches to a drainage stack. Measurements are taken down the stack from highest
horizontal branch connection - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Branch interval
Are used in high rises for venting - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Stack system
, Causes siphoning of water out of p traps - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Wet venting
1 btu will heat - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔1 pound of water
Ready access or removal of panel, door, etc - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Access
What fixture uses an air break - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Faucet
Yard line - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Building sewer
Under the building - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Building Drain
A specially designed system of waste piping embodying the horizontal wet venting of one or
more sinks 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. - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Combination waste and vent system
Drain is acting as vent - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Combination Waste and Vent
system
A vent connecting at the junction of two fixture drains and serving as a vent for both
fixtures - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Common vent
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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Contamination
Not considered contamination - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Pollution
A piping arrangement in which a drain from a fixture, appliance, or device discharge
indirectly into a fixture, receptacle or interceptor at a point below the flood level rim of the
receptacle so installed as to prevent backflow or siphonage - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔Air break ( drainage system)
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.
- **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Air gap (drainage system)
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. - **🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Backflow
Any arrangement whereby backflow can occur. - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔Backflow connection
Air gap - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Backflow Preventer
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. - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Bathroom group
A vertical measurement of distance 8 feet or more between connections of horizontal
branches to a drainage stack. Measurements are taken down the stack from highest
horizontal branch connection - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Branch interval
Are used in high rises for venting - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Stack system
, Causes siphoning of water out of p traps - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Wet venting
1 btu will heat - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔1 pound of water
Ready access or removal of panel, door, etc - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Access
What fixture uses an air break - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Faucet
Yard line - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Building sewer
Under the building - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Building Drain
A specially designed system of waste piping embodying the horizontal wet venting of one or
more sinks 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. - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Combination waste and vent system
Drain is acting as vent - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Combination Waste and Vent
system
A vent connecting at the junction of two fixture drains and serving as a vent for both
fixtures - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Common vent
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 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Contamination
Not considered contamination - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Pollution
