The Inner Workings of Toilets - The Unsung Heroes of Sewerage Systems

Understanding your bathroom may be as important as understanding your car. It's not about the style, it's about the necessity. If you understand your own dump yard, no one can fool you about it. So here are a few basic things you should know about your toilet and its inner workings in order to help you save money, be safe and keep a tab on toilet problems in future.

Toilet Safety Rules

The main reason toilets are the victim of over emphasized safety rules is because they are the main source of water flow in every home. Kitchen has a water supply as well, but there it comes out of the faucet whereas in toilets, water is everywhere in great abundance. And fact of the matter is, water is an enemy of a building's infrastructure. On a large scale, water can bring a building down as easily as a demolition expert.

So there are a few basic toilet realities that we will acquaint you with, in hopes that they will help you understand your home better.

Pressure- Balancing Valve; this valve is responsible for ensuring that in the event of temperature change in the system, the temperature of your open valve does not change. It means that if you are taking a hot shower, you are not suddenly drowned in ice cold water because someone flushed somewhere else and vice versa. This application is almost necessary if you have elderly or young kids in home.

Thermostatic Valve is also very similar to a pressure-balancing valve as it controls the temperature of water as well. The main difference being it is that it uses a thermostat controlled mechanism to keep a tab on the water pressure. These valves focus on individual faucets. If you install them on the outlet of a geezer or water heater they can be used to provide temperature regulation to the entire household.

Vent Stack and Main Stack; a vertical pipe is called 'a stack' in plumbing terms. So the main stack is a big four inch wide pipe that goes from basement to a foot above the roof. This is the main drain line of the house. It is linked with all the drain lines in a house. It leads to either city's main sewer line or your own septic tank. The part of the line that drains waste is called soil stack and the part above the highest drain connection is known as a vent stack.

So with the knowledge of these martyrs of the sewerage system you will be better equipped to handle everyday sewerage problems than you ever were.



By Jack K Fleming
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