Plumbing GlossaryBleeding: Seeping of resin or gum from lumber. This term is also used in referring to the process of drawing air from water pipes.
Dishwasher: A built-in or portable appliance used for automatically cleaning dishware, utensils, and cutlery. The national appliance efficiency standards required that, by 1988, dishwashers be equipped with an option to dry without heat.
Effluent: Treated sewage from a septic tank or sewage treatment plant.
Electric Pump for Well Water: A pump that forces the water from a well below ground level up into the water pipes that circulate through the house. When this pump is not working, there is a limited supply of running water in the house.
Leaching Bed: Tiles in the trenches carrying treated wastes from septic tanks.
Moisture Barrier: Treated paper or metal that retards or bars water vapor, used to keep moisture from passing into walls or floors.
Scuttle Hole: A small opening either to the attic, to the crawl space or to the plumbing pipes.
Septic Tank: A sewage settling tank in which part of the sewage is converted into gas and sludge before the remaining waste is discharged by gravity into a leaching bed underground.
Soil Stack: Vertical plumbing pipe for waste water.
Vent Pipe: A pipe which allows gas to escape from plumbing systems.
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