Use and Care Manual
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Scope
- 2 Reference publications
- 3 Definitions and abbreviations
- 4 Design requirements
- 4.1 Supply fittings
- 4.2 Servicing
- 4.3 Installation
- 4.4 Threaded connections
- 4.5 Connections other than threaded connections
- 4.6 Accessible designs
- 4.7 Backflow prevention
- 4.8 Cover plates and escutcheons
- 4.9 Toxicity and lead content
- 4.10 Frost-proof faucets and hydrants
- 4.11 Showerheads, body sprays, and hand-held showers
- 4.12 Cross-flow
- 4.13 Fittings incorporating electrical features
- 4.14 Materials
- 4.15 Automatic compensating valve temperature control
- 4.16 Lawn faucets
- 4.17 Flexible water connectors
- 4.18 High-efficiency commercial pre-rinse spray valves
- 4.19 Household hot water dispensers with storage electrical heating systems
- 5 Performance requirements and test procedures
- 5.1 General
- 5.2 Coatings
- 5.3 Pressure and temperature
- 5.4 Flow rate
- 5.5 Operating requirements
- 5.6 Life cycle
- 5.7 Resistance to installation loading
- 5.8 Resistance to use loading
- 5.9 Backflow prevention
- 5.10 Lawn faucets
- 5.11 Alternative materials test
- 5.12 High-efficiency showerheads and hand-held showers
- 5.13 High-efficiency commercial pre-rinse spray valves
- 6 Markings, packaging, and installation instructions
- Annex A (informative) Unit conversion and rounding criteria
- Annex B (normative) Tests by fitting type
ASME A112.18.1-2018/CSA B125.1-18 Plumbing supply fittings
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Faucet — a terminal fitting.
Lawn faucet — a faucet designed to be installed horizontally on the outside wall of a building with
male or female IPS threads or copper solder connections on the inlet and hose threads on the
outlet.
Notes:
1) Lawn
faucets can be frostproof.
2) The
outlet is usually angled 45° from the horizontal. Lawn faucets include a flange that mounts flush
with
the
wall.
Sediment faucet — a horizontal faucet with male or female IPS threads on the inlet side and male
hose threads at the outlet spout.
Notes:
1) The outlet can be angled approximately perpendicularly to the inlet or angled outward.
2) Sediment
faucets were formerly called boiler drains because they were originally designed to drain
water
from
boilers and release any accumulated sediment. Today they are also used in laundry rooms as hook-
ups for washing machines.
Self-closing faucet — a faucet that closes itself after the actuation or control mechanism is
deactivated.
Note: The actuation or control mechanism can be mechanical or electronic.
Fitting — a device that controls and guides the flow of water.
Note: Fittings include faucets and valves.
Combination fitting — a fitting with more than one supply inlet delivering water through a single
spout.
Concealed fitting — a fitting with its body mounted beneath or behind a fixture, wall, or surface.
Deck-mounted fitting — a fitting that is mounted on top of a horizontal surface.
Exposed fitting — a fitting whose body is mounted above or in front of a fixture’s deck or shelf.
Line fitting — a fitting that does not discharge to atmosphere.
Public lavatory fitting — a fitting intended to be installed in non-residential bathrooms that are
exposed to walk-in traffic.
Supply fitting — a fitting that controls and guides the flow of water in a supply system.
Terminal fitting — a fitting with an open or atmospheric discharge.
Fixture — a device that receives water or waste matter, or both, and directs these substances into a
drainage system.
Grasp — to firmly hold and seize an object by wrapping the fingers and thumb around it.
Hand-held shower — a showerhead that can be held or fixed in place for spraying water onto a bather
and that is connected to a flexible hose.
Low-pressure water dispenser — a terminal fitting located downstream of a pressure reducing valve
that dispenses drinking hot water above 71 °C (160 °F) or cold water or both at a pressure of 105 kPa
(15 psi) or less.