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Title: Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1908
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Air conditioning Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery Heating Plumbing
Publisher: Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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cannot see why one shoulduse a trap with partitions that is opento the above objections and has no realadvantages over other traps, except apossibility that it may be installed for thirty cents less than others. But justlisten to the arguments advanced by thewily salesman; a member of this fra-ternity told the writer once that youcould just poke a five-dollar bill down inyour pocket every time you installed oneof his traps, as it didnt have to bevented. I told him I couldnt see itthat way, and anyway I had too much money already. Lo and behold! On hisnext trip he had the same trap with him,(inly it now had a vent coupling on it.I presume it was put there because histrap needed no vent and for no otherreason. In the Plumber and Steamfitter ofDecember 1 an error was made in theexplanation of two illustrations in thearticle on Faulty Chimneys andDrafts. If the explanation is read byreading Fig. 10 for Fig. 9 andvice versa, the correct meaning will besecured. OTTAWA PLUMBING CHART NO. 6.
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ALL DRAINS must be lmd m a straight line, and all chatisesin di RECTION MUST BE MADE BY U5ING BENDS WHERE NECESSAW, JOINTS IN .NO CASEWILL BE PERMITTED BOOKEN FROM A iTSAIGHT LihE IN HUB OF PIPE .^EE CUT ON LEFT). ALL DRWN5 TO HAVE FALL OF Vi- TO EACH RLIOJIfii FOOT AND TO BE CONNECTED TOPRIVATE DRAIN OF K0U5E, OUTSIDE OF WALL , AND TESTED BY PLUOGIMS CLEAN J3UT VITH BA4OF OATMEAL OR OTHER fUlTASLE PLUG TREI.XHES MUST BE CLEAR OF WATER A.N; tiflVEHOLE IK EARTH AT EACH JOINT FOR INSPECTION OF SAME. All tile drains must finish below top of cement or earth floor and havestrainers in end and top of trap. Trap i,f necessary must be extended to top offinished floor with pipe and pipe must have hub on same for holding strainerdrains from street line into house must not be covered up until inspected andapproved of. P L U iM B E R AND S T E A M F I T T E R December 15, 1908. NEWS OF THE TRADE IN CANADA A. Kyle & Son, plumbers, etc., Mont-real, have registered. Thomas Lockhart, plumber, Gai

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