Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pass through a 6-in. pipe in about one minute and a half. At an inclination of I in 90 a 9-in. pipe, running full, will discharge in round numbers 980,000 gallons in twenty-four hours, or sufficient to drain a town with a population of over 20,000. If a pipe becomes choked, it is generally owing to its being too large—not too small—or to faulty laying or construction. In ordinary dwelling-houses 1 in 30 is none too much to give a drain, or, as the workman better understand it, 4 inches in 10 ft. Equal in importance to having good pipes properly laid and jointed so as to prevent accumu- lation and leakage, is the necessity for discon- nection and ventilation, with the object of preventing sewer air from passing into the building. There are still comparatively few houses where these essentials to a healthy home exist. Since public attention has been so much directed to this subject, all sorts of patent traps and cowls and systems, some of them of the most complicated and expensive character, have appeared. And some lamentable failures have resulted. But for the disconnection of drains from the sewer and for their efficient ventilation no patent systems are necessary. The whole thing is best effected by very simple means. In the first place, a syphon trap should be fixed at the most convenient point between the building and the sewer. In town houses this is generally in the forecourt or area. The water standing in the