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RealCraftsMan · 01-26-2012, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by GREENPLUM

Approvals

Trap Guard® Approvals
ProSet Trap Guard® is approved at national, state and local levels as a replacement for the trap primer. It has undergone rigorous testing by a variety of independent and reputable testing authorities (see below) in order to obtain those approvals.
Can You Legally Specify and Install the Trap Guard Within a Jurisdiction Where it Has Not Specifically Been Approved?

The answer is YES.
The Federal Trade Commission makes it mandatory that every code must have a section for alternate materials and methods approval.
If a Professional Engineer can provide sufficient data to prove equivalency in providing protection of the public health, safety and welfare, the inspection department in that area cannot legally turn it down. There is more than sufficient data with listings and approvals to prove Trap Guard®’s equivalency for alternate approval. We have provided a list of this data below, with links to view and download the documentation.
If you feel that it would be of benefit to use Trap Guard® on one or more of your projects and you don’t believe that specific approval has been granted in your area, you still have the option of specifying and installing it based on the above FTC mandate and the documentation proving equivalency.

Try telling an inspector that haha

playme1979 · 01-27-2012, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by RealCraftsMan

Try telling an inspector that haha

You would be suprized what a letter from an engineer can accomplish in the city of houston or dallas.

mtfallsmikey · 01-27-2012, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Turd Chaser

trap guards...

ProSetTrapGuard - YouTube

Whilst on the throne reading PHC News the other day, saw an ad for Sure-Seal, similar to this ProSet. I'm looking into installing them in all of the floor drains in my buildings.

GREENPLUM · 01-27-2012, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by RealCraftsMan

Try telling an inspector that haha

Been there done that, not a problem.

**Airgap** · 01-27-2012, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by U666A

'Tis

I've been on the same project for 3 Christmas' now. I roughed in that battery of primers as per the drawing I was given during the underground and they added that wall a year later. The tubes all come up through
l/r conduit elbows and conduit cut off at the slab, all strapped to an elaborate bracket made of unistrut.

Other than that, im quite pleased with it overall.

I know Kung Fu!

That was funny....

fresnoplummr · 02-02-2012, 11:11 AM

We use the lavatory tailpiece trap primers all the time. Work good and no waste of water.

plumbfire · 02-02-2012, 02:47 PM

I did a large grocery store many years ago and had a lot of floor drains for the case coolers. Even though they received water constantly from the condensate drains, I had to prime them. I think I had over 40 drains to prime. I ended up making a header out of 2" copper and silver soldered 1/2" copper nipples into it. I connected a urinal tank to the center of the header. When it flushed it flooded the 2" fully and ran out of the 1/2" equally. Used 1/2" poly underground. Worked really well.
That was so long ago, that grocery store has been torn down and replaced with something else.
Getting old I guess.

nadroj26 · 02-06-2012, 02:33 AM

I have been on a couple of jobs (boiler rooms) where we retrofit new boilers in schools. All of the floor drains were trap primed by bringing a 1/2 dcw pipe down wall with a ddc control valve. 1/2 air gap to a copper header serving all floor drans. DDC controls a once a week spillage into the floor drains for a certain amount of time. I know this isn't possible for most smaller jobs but I thought it was a really great idea to get rid of all those problematic mechanical trap trimers.

U666A · 02-06-2012, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Airgap

That was funny....

??? Why for?

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02-02-2012, 11:11 AM	#26
fresnoplummr Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 5 My Photos	We use the lavatory tailpiece trap primers all the time. Work good and no waste of water.

02-02-2012, 02:47 PM	#27
plumbfire Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Peterborough, Ontario Posts: 9 My Photos	I did a large grocery store many years ago and had a lot of floor drains for the case coolers. Even though they received water constantly from the condensate drains, I had to prime them. I think I had over 40 drains to prime. I ended up making a header out of 2" copper and silver soldered 1/2" copper nipples into it. I connected a urinal tank to the center of the header. When it flushed it flooded the 2" fully and ran out of the 1/2" equally. Used 1/2" poly underground. Worked really well. That was so long ago, that grocery store has been torn down and replaced with something else. Getting old I guess.

02-06-2012, 02:33 AM	#28
nadroj26 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 5 My Photos	I have been on a couple of jobs (boiler rooms) where we retrofit new boilers in schools. All of the floor drains were trap primed by bringing a 1/2 dcw pipe down wall with a ddc control valve. 1/2 air gap to a copper header serving all floor drans. DDC controls a once a week spillage into the floor drains for a certain amount of time. I know this isn't possible for most smaller jobs but I thought it was a really great idea to get rid of all those problematic mechanical trap trimers.