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2. Plumber's snake - Wikipedia

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   A man clears a sanitary sewer pipe with a motorized snake. Plant roots and other material being removed from a drain. A plumber's snake or drain snake or drain auger is a slender, flexible auger used to dislodge clogs in plumbing. The plumber's snake is often reserved for difficult clogs that cannot be loosened with a plunger.

3. Air gap (plumbing) - Wikipedia

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   This "air gap" is visible above the sink as a small cylindrical fixture mounted near the faucet. In the base cabinet under the sink, the drain hose from the dishwasher feeds the "top" of the air gap, and the "bottom" of the air gap is plumbed into the sink drain below the basket, or into a garbage disposal unit. When installed and maintained ...

4. Piping and plumbing fitting - Wikipedia

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   In plumbing, an adapter is generally a fitting that interfaces two different parts. The term commonly refers to: any fitting that connects pipes of different materials, including: [5] [6] [7] expansion adapters which have a flexible section to absorb expansion or contraction from two dissimilar pipe materials [8]

5. Gooseneck (piping) - Wikipedia

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   Gooseneck vent with check valve being repainted. A gooseneck (or goose neck) is a 180° pipe fitting at the top of a vertical pipe that prevents entry of water. Common implementations of goosenecks are ventilator piping or ducting for bathroom and kitchen exhaust fans, ship holds, landfill methane vent pipes, or any other piping implementation exposed to the weather where water ingress would ...

6. Cross-linked polyethylene - Wikipedia

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   A cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) pipe. Cross-linked polyethylene, commonly abbreviated PEX, XPE or XLPE, is a form of polyethylene with cross-links.It is used predominantly in building services pipework systems, hydronic radiant heating and cooling systems, domestic water piping, insulation for high tension (high voltage) electrical cables, and baby play mats.

7. HDPE pipe - Wikipedia

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   HDPE pipe is a type of flexible plastic pipe used to transfer fluids and gases. It is often employed for replacing aging concrete or steel main pipelines . Constructed from the thermoplastic HDPE (high-density polyethylene ), it has low permeability and robust molecular bonding, making it suitable for high-pressure pipelines .