Identifier: mechcontract1909toro (find matches)
Title: Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1909
Year: 1909 (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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or trimmings and decorations,but when it comes to the plumbing, themost important of all from the stand-point of health and convenience, he iswoefully lax in his instructions to hisplumbing contractor. And it is greatlyto the credit of the much-malignedplumbing trade that such good work isproduced with such meagre assistance asthe plumber gets from his plans andspecifications. The architect in drawing up his con-tracts usually stipulates that the plumb-ing must conform to the drawings andspecifications, which clause would neces-sarily imply that the drawings and speci-fications contained all the informationthat might be necessary for the plumbingcontractor to not only give an intelligentfigure on the work required, but alsoto carry out his contract in a manner toinsure the very best results results ob-tainable. But let us turn to those samedrawings and specifications, and what dowe find? The average building plansshow us a toilet room located here, a SEWERS MOT WATER RETURN COLO WATER
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FrtESH AIR INLETSTORM SEWER STORM SEWER /. Basement Plan, Showing Water and Sewer Pipes. July 1, 1909. PLUMBER AND STEAMFITTER sink there, lavatories scattered promis-cuously, with a few lines on the basementto indicate the general direction of thesewer, but liiitle more. It is up to theplumber to figure, if he can, how he isto reach the various fixtures with hislines; where to locate his water heater,pumps, tanks, etc.; where to instal hisrisers and vent lines, and how he is tokeep out of the way of the steel con-tractor, the heating contractor, the elec-trician, the sheet metal contractor and,in fact, every other artisan on the job,for it seems to be the generally acceptedrule that the plumber must give way toall of these more favored trades andcrowd his work into impossible out-of-the-way places, working under handicapswhich would hardly be tolerated in otherlines of building construction. On the drawings he finds not a line toindicate where his water pipes are to gonor the size th

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