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let iiie say that it will pay to buy good heavy bowl, basins and fixtures 

 of all kinds. They need not be showy, but they should be sub- 

 stantial. 



All pipes should be put in with red lead, and all fittings screwed 

 tight. Have no flat pipes. Have them laid elevated, or slanting, so 

 that when you want to drain them all water can be made to flow back 

 to tank or drain system. This is imlportant. There should be one 

 main pipe (1 or 1^/4 inches in diameter), leading from pressure tank 

 almost to cooking stove or range, where it branches. One branch con- 

 veys the water through the heater, then to the hot water tank, and 

 from it to all parts of the house, paralleling the cold water pipe 

 throughout its entire length. By saying parallel, I mean that the 

 pipes should be placed within a few inches of each other — say 5 or 6 

 inches, but not so near that the hot water will heat the cold, or vice 

 versa. When it is necessary to run the pipes very close together a 

 board partition may be used. 



In laying out plans for your system make no more turns in pipe 

 than are necessary. Where branches are made for wash basins and 

 the like, smaller pipes may be used than for the main pipe. Pipes may 

 also decrease in size as the distance from the pressure tank increases. 



The kitchen sink should be as close to the main out-door sewer 

 as possible. All slush water should pass out in order to keep this 

 pipe clean, as grease causes most of the trouble. 



Where water pipes pass from the ground up into the house a box 

 should be made around them and extending at least two inches from 

 all pipe. This box should be filled with melted resin. A box at least 

 two feet square should then be made around it. Fill this box with 

 stable manure, one of the best known materials to keep water pipes 

 from freezing. Eemember, after a year or two, to look into the top 

 of the manure box to see that it is full, as the manure may have 

 settled. If so, fill to top and pack tight. Do not use asbestos or 

 mineral wool. Mineral wool is one of the best cold conductors there 

 is, as used in cold storage, but is of no value in causing a body to 

 retain heat. It is just as important to pack the hot water pipe as the 

 cold, as the hot water pipe will always freeze first, as the mineral life 

 is dead in it, caused by intense heating. 



Where pipes are run along under or just above floors in rooms 

 where fire is not continually kept up a good idea is to box them in 

 with sawdust. In running pipes along floors, as just referred to, they 

 should be elevated a little so that they will always drain back to the 

 pressure tank. By having a drain pipe from the low point in the 



