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The Country House 



Fig. 34 Section showing the plumbing of a house by the system which avoid* the use of 

 (be back vent. It could be installed, using enamelled fixtures with best workmanship and 

 materials, for about $600. If soapstone tubs were used it would reduce the cost 

 C. Tank drain T. Trap H. H use cock K. Clean out F. Fresh-air inlet 



of the frost, unless you delight in 

 plumbers' bills and general inconve- 

 nience. Ordinarily the service pipe is 

 of galvanised iron, and in this case and 

 where the connection is made with the 

 public service, a short piece of lead 

 pipe is introduced between it and the 

 water-main connection. Thus any 

 unequal settlement will not break the 

 service pipe. This water-main con- 

 nection or "service cock" shouW be 

 blocked up with short lengths of solid 

 plank for like reasons. 



The direct system is the ordinary 

 one employed, and consists in the direct 

 supplyfrom the service to the individual 

 outlets. This does admirably for the 

 low-pressure service, but for the high 

 pressure it allows of too great a strain 

 on the pipes. \Vh<> has 

 not, in his chance or daily 

 interviews with some 

 bathroom washbowl, no- 

 ticed the staid placidity of 

 the hot water and the 

 extreme activity of the 

 cold ? You turn on 

 the latter and it 

 comes with a jump; 

 it is hardly in the 

 basin before it is out 

 again all over your 

 shirt front. You 

 turn it off, and the 

 climax is a bang 

 and a jar perceptible 

 all over the house. 

 The reason for 

 this contrast is that 

 the cold water is on 

 direct high presure, 

 while the hot water 

 receives its head 

 from a tank in the 

 usual manner. With 

 a system like this 





