Plumbing · IPC 2021 §714.1

Backwater Valve Below Manhole Elevation

Building section: fixtures on a floor below the next upstream manhole cover are protected by a backwater valve; fixtures on a floor above it do not discharge through one (existing-building exception).. Referenced to IPC 2021 §714.1.

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