Title: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: kinhunter on December 05, 2002, 12:42:37 am
Hi..
A colleague asked me if I could find out the answer to her civil engineering vocabulary question:
What is the British equivalent of the US term "sewer chimney"??
Can anyone help me out?
Many thanks!
Kinhunter
A colleague asked me if I could find out the answer to her civil engineering vocabulary question:
What is the British equivalent of the US term "sewer chimney"??
Can anyone help me out?
Many thanks!
Kinhunter
Title: Re: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: aberdeensecretaries on December 05, 2002, 01:22:10 am
Title: Re: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: JessW on December 05, 2002, 10:59:45 am
Your best bet would be to ask someone at the Institution of Civil Engineering (their web page is www.ice.org.uk. they have lots of interesting (yawn) stuff but should be able to answer your question.
Hope this helps
Jess
Hope this helps
Jess
Title: Re: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: bethalize on December 05, 2002, 11:58:19 am
I didn't know what a "sewer chimney" was, so I had to look it up. Am I right in thinking that it's the vertical shaft that connects the horizontal sewer to the surface big enough for a person to go down? Or is it some sort of venitlation shaft?
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Title: Re: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: superninjaadmin on December 05, 2002, 05:22:48 pm
From what I could tell from the drawing I saw, I think it's a ventilation shaft.
SNA (who certainly ain;t no engineer, so did a Google search on the web) in AK
SNA (who certainly ain;t no engineer, so did a Google search on the web) in AK
Title: Re: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: mathwhizchick on December 05, 2002, 06:53:14 pm
Could it be the standpipe? Or the pipe used to equalize the pressure in the kitchen/bathroom plumbing? (they may be one and the same)
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Title: Re: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: kinhunter on December 05, 2002, 08:42:21 pm
To those who replied - many thanks!
I don't know exactly what a sewer chimmney is either or why she needs the British equivalent (a class maybe?), but I think this will give her several ideas, and a website to look at!
I knew I could count on you all to come through!
Kinhunter
I don't know exactly what a sewer chimmney is either or why she needs the British equivalent (a class maybe?), but I think this will give her several ideas, and a website to look at!
I knew I could count on you all to come through!
Kinhunter
Title: Re: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: JessW on December 06, 2002, 05:57:14 pm
I got the real answer - it is a soil vent pipe (commonly referred to as an SVP). It is the bit of the soil pipe that must by law stick up above ground or ceiling level to get rid of noxious fumes.
At last a positive answer.
Enjoy.
Jess
At last a positive answer.
Enjoy.
Jess
Title: Re: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: blufire21 on December 06, 2002, 06:09:01 pm
So that's what those things are called. It's also used to vent methane and other potentially flamable gases.
Ellen in TX
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Title: Re: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: bethalize on December 06, 2002, 07:59:47 pm
Wow! How on earth did you find that out?
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Title: Re: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: JessW on December 09, 2002, 01:31:48 pm
I work for an internation firm of chartered quanty surveyors within their in-house legal team.
Some of the M&E guys owe me big time, so picking their brains occasionaly (purely for personal gain you understand) is quite permissible.
Some of the M&E guys owe me big time, so picking their brains occasionaly (purely for personal gain you understand) is quite permissible.
Title: Re: Brit Eng engineering term?
Post by: bethalize on December 09, 2002, 02:24:50 pm
Lol! Good for you!
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