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to be furnished by said board or bureau. Where two or more buildings are located together and on the same street, and the plumbing work is identical in each, one plan will be sufficient. Plans will be approved or rejected within 24 hours after their receipt. SEC. 3. MATERIAL OF HOUSE DRAIN AND SEWER.--House drains or soil pipes laid beneath floor must be extra heavy cast-iron pipe, with leaded and caulked joints, and carried 5 feet outside cellar wall. All drains and soil pipes connected with main drain where it is above the cellar floor shall be extra heavy cast-iron pipe with leaded joints properly secured or of heavy wrought-iron pipe with screw joints properly secured and carried 5 feet outside cellar wall and all arrangements for soil and waste pipes shall be run as direct as possible. Changes of direction on pipes shall be made with "Y"-branches, both above and below the ground, and where such pipes pass through a new foundation-wall a relieving arch shall be built over it, with a 2-inch space on either side of the pipe. SEC. 4.--The size of main house drain shall be determined by the total area of the buildings and paved surfaces to be drained, according to the following table, if iron pipe is used. If the pipe is terra-cotta the pipe shall be one size larger than for the same amount of area drainage. ----------+-----------------------------+--------------------------------- Diameter | Fall 1/4 inch per foot | Fall 1/2 inch per foot ----------+-----------------------------+--------------------------------- 4 inches | 1,800 square feet drainage | 2,500 square feet drainage area 5 inches | 3,000 square feet drainage | 4,500 square feet drainage area 6 inches | 5,000 square feet drainage | 7,500 square feet drainage area 8 inches | 9,100 square feet drainage | 13,600 square feet drainage area 10 inches | 14,000 square feet drainage | 20,000 square feet drainage area ----------+-----------------------------+--------------------------------- The main house drains may be decreased in diameter beyond the rain-water conductor or surface inlet by permission of the bureau, when the plans show that the conditions are such as to warrant such decrease, but in no case shall the main house drain be less than 4 inc
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