Explore the nuances of plumbing legends and notes, where standards, symbols, and various types of piping are intricately detailed. This article underscores the importance of understanding these elements for anyone new to the plumbing industry or those reviewing plumbing diagrams.
Key Insights
- The article explains plumbing diagrams, focusing on legends and notes, parallel to graphical standards observed in other engineering disciplines.
- Different types of piping, such as domestic cold water, sanitary piping, and storm piping, have unique symbols. These symbols, while commonly used in the industry, may require frequent referencing for rookies in the field.
- The piece serves as a preliminary guide to understand and review plumbing drawings, setting the stage for more detailed discussions in the course.
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Let's spend a few minutes looking at the plumbing legends and notes. You can see that overall the format is similar to what we've seen with the other engineering disciplines, where we have graphical standards, in this case a plumbing legend, general notes, fire protection notes, and the plumbing sheet index. Let's look at the plumbing legend.
As we get into the drawing, you will start to notice that different kinds of piping have different symbols presented. So for the immediate future, you're going to be going back and forth between the drawing and this particular legend to see if you're talking about domestic cold water, domestic hot water, fire protection piping, sanitary piping, storm piping, and then what do all of these specific symbols represent. The symbols are used throughout the plumbing industry, but if you're new to this, you'll probably have to go back and forth between the sheet that you're reviewing and this legend to make sure that you understand what's going on.
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So let's wrap up our time on this sheet and get into the meat and potatoes of the course for plumbing drawings.
