Drainage, Waste & Vent
Glossary subject · 84 terms
- Aerobic treatment unit (ATU)
- Anaerobic septic system
- Aspiration / induced siphonage
- Backflow risk for basement drains
- Backwater valve
- Basement / cellar drainage
- Battery-backup sump pump
- Branch drain line
- Building drain
- Cast iron soil pipe
- Cesspool
- Cleanout
- Closet bend
- Collapsed sewer line
- Combined sewer
- Common vent
- Cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) liner
- Distribution box (D-box)
- Drain pipe
- Drain slope
- Drainfield
- Drainfield reserve area
- Drum trap
- Dry vent vs. wet vent
- DWV system
- Effluent filter
- Floor drain
- Frost closure / vent freeze-up
- Gurgling drain
- High-water alarm (septic)
- House trap
- Hub-and-spigot joint
- Hydro jetting
- Inspection chamber
- Island vent
- J-bend
- Lead-and-oakum joint
- Macerator pump
- Main drain line
- Manhole
- Oakum
- Orangeburg pipe
- P-trap
- Pipe bursting
- Pipe relining (epoxy)
- PVC Schedule 40 (DWV)
- Roof vent
- S-trap
- Sand filter / mound system
- Sanitary tee
- Scum and sludge layers
- Self-siphonage
- Septic pumping
- Septic pumping cadence
- Septic system
- Septic system inspection
- Septic-incompatible substances
- Sewage backup
- Sewage ejector pump
- Sewer camera inspection
- Sewer gas
- Sewer lateral root intrusion
- Side sewer
- Siphoning action
- Slip lining
- Snap cutter
- Soil pipe
- Stack
- Stack vent
- Storm drain
- Sump pit
- Sump pump
- Sump pump check valve
- Sump pump sizing
- Trap
- Trap arm
- Trap arm length limits
- Trap evaporation
- Trap seal
- Trenchless sewer replacement
- Up-flush system
- Vent cowl
- Vent pipe
- Wet vent