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Question: 06-30 Code Section: 7 Date: OBC 2006 Reference: 7.3.5.4.(1), 9.10.9.16.(3) Question submitted: A drainage system for a Single Family Dwelling Unit goes through a floor from a room above the attached garage. Does this drainage system need to be insulated and boxed in with fire protection? Or just insulated no fire protection, or none […]

Question: 09-04 Code Section: 7 Date: 2 March 2009 OBC 2006 Reference: 7.4.5.5. Question submitted: Regarding trap seal primers, The manufactures are quite clear when you use a mechanical device that you can only use one device for one trap. When the plumbers use a manual trap seal primer can they join more than one

Question: 01-11 Code Section: 7 Date: 14 June 2011 OBC 2006 Reference: 7.5.5.1(1);(2) Question Submitted:We need to put in writing an answer for these question because I get the feeling that plumbersare getting away with a lack of responsibility in the rural areas…… (1.) When a bathroom group in roughed in for future in a

Question: 07-45 Code Section: 7 Date: 23 October 2007 OBC 2006 Reference: 1.1.2.7., 11.3.4.1. Question: When doing additions to an existing plumbing system there was a section that covered this connection to the existing system, and if the addition (affected) the existing plumbing in any way it had to be altered. The section was 7.1.2.2.

Question: 06-30 Code Section: 7 Date: 13 April 2008 OBC 2006 Reference: 7.1.5.3., 7.6.2.1., 7.7.1.1., 7.7.2.1. Question: Recently a question has arisen concerning the use of greywater for hose bibs. 7.1.5.3. (2) clearly states where greywater may be used. In the Appendix, definition of a plumbing system, it says a system of piping that conveys