Taco’s FloodBreaker whole-house, adjustable leak detection system monitors all water use in the home and shuts off the main water supply if any of the user-programmed settings are reached.
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It operates on 9V DC power supply, with four AA batteries as backup. It also features an audible alarm, a special vacation mode and a push-button reset. It is NSF 61-certified, and is available in 3/4”, 1” and 1 1/4” NPT connection sizes.
NEOPERL’s PCA SLC saves 70% on water and sewer bills, as well as conserving energy.
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Available in regular and small sizes — 0.5 gal. per min., 1.0 gpm and the new 0.35 gpm for maximum LEED points in U.S. Green Building Council projects.
TOTO’s Aero shower system offers AeroJet+ with patented air injection technology to increase the volume of each water droplet.
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It incorporates TOTO’s Shape Memory Alloy valves, which allows for complete water cessation when turned off; no residual water loss through drips or leaking, no staining or scaling. Available in classic and modern design.
Workforce development, water efficiency and waterborne diseases were among the issues discussed April 22 during the third annual meeting of the Plumbing Industry Leadership Coalition in Washington.
ASPE is offering an online plumbing design course, which it developed with UCLA. It is in the process of creating an associate degree program for plumbing design with the City College of San Francisco. It exhibited for the first time at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, which was held April 26-27 in Washington and attended by elementary and high school students from across the country.
To reduce the worry of leaks in the ceiling from an upstairs water closet installation, I have found that if the closet ring is set too high, the space between the toilet and the wax ring is minimized, causing the wax to thin out.
When replacing the toilet handle on 90% of the toilets out in the field, it seems like all aftermarket handles and sometimes even OEM handles don’t fit in the square cutout of the porcelain all the time.