Some of the cottages are old farmhouses which have been repaired and equipped with plumbing in order to adapt them to their present use.
At Westchester vertical shafts were constructed between each pair of cells to contain all the plumbing pipes for those fixtures.
It is responsible for the construction of buildings, as to safety, ventilation, plumbing and draining.
Have a paper or talk on the sanitation of the country and village house especially, and of the necessity of overseering the plumbing intelligently.
Upstairs, the bedrooms were quite as unusual, the plumbing of the new pattern, heavy and imposing.
His chimneys don't smoke, his windows are tight, he knows what systems of heating are the best, and whom to go to: he knows what good plumbing is.
And the plumbingfixtures were of the type that passed out of general use on the American side of the water with the Rutherford B.
In electrical supplies we found the show windows up to the American average, which is high indeed; but in plumbing there was a sag.
The only work necessary after the concrete has set is to put in the doors and windows, install the furnace and necessary fixtures for heating, lighting and plumbing and connect them up ready for use.
Though Hans Burgmiller never acknowledged anybody to know the trade better than he did he accepted the superiority of his son when modern plumbing methods first appeared in the district.
I don't know what plumbing there was to be done at that time in the district.
The plumbing is usually of a cheap order, and the drains are not infrequently broken, so that sanitarily these dwellings are often more suspicious than the abandoned farmhouse.
The installation of neither furnace nor plumbing is accomplished once for all; at the end of ten years at most repairs or replacement must be made on penalty of loss of health.
It means plumbing and interior finish; it also means a finish on the outside, smoothly shaven lawns and immaculate sidewalks.
Every five years or soplumbing laws are changed, and if an old house is touched the fixtures and pipes must be all renewed.
To these manufacturers is due the beautiful design, stability, and perfect sanitary material which make up our plumbing fixtures of today.
The importance of this is evidenced by the plumbing laws now in use throughout the country.
Plumbing fixtures were at first manufactured so that it was necessary to support them on a wooden frame, and this frame was enclosed in wood.
The plumbing trade differs from all other trades in that it has joint wiping for its distinctive feature.
As larger buildings came into use and communities were more thickly populated, the plumbing problem demanded thought and intense study.
Vents are the most important pipes in the plumbing system.
Where directly sewer-connected, they must be cut off from the rest of the building and plumbing system by a brass flap valve on the inlet to the catch basin and the trap on the drain from the catch basin must be water-supplied.
Safe-waste pipes must not connect directly with any part of the plumbing system.
The fact that these fixtures are made of material that is non-absorbent adds to their value as sanitary plumbing fixtures.
The demand for moderate priced, sanitary closets, lavatories, and baths has led to the rapid improvement seen in plumbing fixtures.
You may look over the plumbing in the bathroom whenever you are ready.
There seems to be a leak in the plumbing somewhere on this floor," the man went on.
In installing this system, the tank itself can be as near the house as ten or fifteen feet but the piping connecting it with the soil line of the plumbing should be water tight.
What is saved frequently becomes closets or the well for plumbing pipes.
The installation of piping for plumbing and heating is supervised carefully, as is the work of plastering.
A corner of a Buffalo (New York) vocational school, teachingplumbing and steam fitting.
The careful information collected concerning the juxtaposition of the typhoid cases to the various systems of plumbing and nonplumbing was made the basis of a bacteriological study by another resident, Dr.
Did you really have the smoke test put through the plumbing as you said you did?
As long as that picture remains unhung, a vacant wall space in any house is full of interest and possibility to us, and if we ever move, we shall select a spot for that picture first, and consider the rent and plumbing second.
Poor plumbing is often the cause of contaminated food.
Frequently there are leaky joints due to settling of the dwellings or to extreme changes in temperature, and the plumbing should be occasionally inspected by one familiar with the subject.
Special attention should be given to the care of plumbing near places where foods are stored.
The simplest and most commonly used trap in cheap plumbingis that of Fig.
They are added to the plumbing merely as a convenient means of shutting off the water for repair.
Additional examples of the various forms of plumbing and pipe fittings, valves, traps and water fixtures may be found in the shop of dealers in plumbers and steam-fitters supplies.
A method of bath-room plumbingusing the drum trap.
As an item of expense in building, a satisfactory water-supply system may be installed at a lower cost than is paid for plumbing and bathroom fixtures.
The rough plumbing includes the soil pipe, into which the waste pipes from the various fixtures empty, and those pipes which must occupy a position inside the partition walls and beneath the floors.
In the process of building a house the rough plumbing is put into place as soon as the structure is enclosed and the rough floors are laid.
This type of plumbing represents the most modern of sanitary arrangements.
Types of lavatory plumbing not now used in good practice.
An example of back-vented plumbing as applied to the bathroom.
Although the work of installing heating plants is frequently done by plumbers, pipe fitting and plumbing are two distinct trades.
The lack of distinguishing terms, or language in which to describe plumbing fixtures, often leads to embarrassment, when such articles are to be described to workmen.
They are standard in form and may be bought of any dealer in plumbing or household supplies.
After first flippantly suggesting that the plumbing business would at least afford Pelgram the chance to indulge his taste in porcelains, he eased the artist's mind by a phrase as soothing as it was noncommittal.
Whether it was equally sagacious, equally sane, to try to plunge you into the plumbing business is not so clear.
It's waxing a bit awkward, because Thief's query plumbs to the crux of the question; a plumbing he cunningly elects shall put society on the defensive.
