2019 California Plumbing Code

The 2019 version of the California Plumbing Code (CPC©) represents probably the most present approaches within the plumbing discipline. This code is embedded with the 2018 Version of the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC©) with the California amendments. It’s the sixth version developed underneath the American Nationwide Requirements Institute (ANSI) course of. Contributions to the content material of this code have been made by each phase of the constructed business, together with such various pursuits as shoppers, imposing authorities, installers/maintainers, labor, producers, analysis/requirements/ testing laboratories, particular specialists, and customers.
The CPC is designed to supply shoppers with protected and sanitary plumbing methods whereas, on the similar time, permitting latitude for innovation and new applied sciences. Key adjustments to the 2019 CPC embody:
New sound transmission provisions for plumbing piping methods (Chapter 3)
New product requirements for such plumbing fixtures as wall hung fixtures, waste fittings, toilets, showers, bathtubs and whirlpool bathtubs, flushometer valves, sinks, and eyewash stations; and signage for single use bathroom services (Chapter 4)
New provisions for connector capacities for elbows in connectors and clearance of home equipment and their connectors to flamable supplies (Chapter 5)
New backflow safety provisions for chemical dispensers; new materials provisions for pipes, tubes, fittings and joint strategies for water provide and distribution; and new stress testing for the new and cold-water provide system (Chapter 6)
New supplies necessities for drain, waste, vent pipe, and fittings (Chapter 7)
New provisions for lure seal primers for potable water provide (Chapter 10)
New provisions for engineered storm drainage methods (Chapter 11)
New necessities for cover in opposition to corrosion of metal pipe and metal tubing for gas gasoline methods, overpressure safety of gas gasoline methods, and provisions for gasoline piping set up for gas gasoline piping methods (Chapter 12) New necessities for medical gasoline and vacuum methods primarily based on the newest version of NFPA 99 (Chapter 13)
New peak water demand technique and calculator for estimating demand masses for water provide of single- and multi-family dwellings with water conserving plumbing fixtures, fixture fittings, and home equipment (Appendix M)
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