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Vacuum testing DWV PVC system

25K views 18 replies 10 participants last post by  Tommy plumber  
Sorry I have never even heard about a vacuum test. Here it is all air or water test, and pretty much everyone use the 5psi air test. I have only heard about the water test and never seen one. Do you know why they decided to ban the air test?

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Story I heard from an inspector, somewhere out west a lower rough was on air test and some dropped a hammer and the pipe exploded.
Pieces of PVC cut them and he died as a result, the family tried to sue pipe manufacture and was told air test is not an approved testing method.
Thousands upon thousands of even millions of air tests have been done and one accident is all it takes? What's next? Are they going to ban the use of ladders? Because people can fall down from them.

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