Water pipes run inside the walls of buildings to bring drinking water to residents.
A water main is any pipe or tube designed to carry treated drinking water to consumers. Variations may include large-diameter pipelines serving entire cities, smaller branch lines serving a street or group of buildings, or small-diameter pipelines located within individual buildings. Water pipes range in size from giant pipe examples up to 144 inches (365 cm) in diameter to small 1/2 inch (12.7 mm) pipes used to feed individual outlets within a building. Materials commonly used to build water pipes include polyvinyl chloride (PVC), copper, steel, and, in older systems, concrete or fired clay. Individual lengths of water pipe can be joined together to make extended extensions with flanges, nipples, compression joints, or welds.
Plumber’s tape is used on water pipe connections to help prevent leaks.
The supply of drinking water to residential, commercial and industrial areas is one of the oldest public utility services in history and, since Roman times, depended on the modest conduction of water for its execution. The first examples of water pipes were influenced by the technology, or rather the lack of it, of the time, and were generally constructed of easily accessible and manageable materials, such as the wood and lead sheets used by the ancients. Romans. Wooden pipes were often nothing more than hollow logs held together by a somewhat odious mixture of heated animal fat. Roman lead pipes used to be square in cross-section, with bent seams and joints.
PVC pipes for plumbing.
Modern water supply networks and installations use water pipes in various categories of standard applications. The first is the water pipe, which typically has large-diameter steel, concrete, or PVC pipes that carry the water supply to the area of immediate consumption. These tubes can range in size from 6 to 144 inches (15 to 365 mm) in diameter and typically have a minimum working pressure of 30 pounds per square inch (PSI). Most major systems use steel flanges to join individual pipe runs. Most pipes are underground or buried lines, although in some cases they may run on the surface supported by concrete posts.
Water pipes supply drinking water to people.
In the vicinity of the points of consumption, the water network will feed several smaller sections of water pipe that will act as a secondary distribution system. They are also usually steel or PVC pipes with an average diameter of 4 to 12 inches (10 to 30 cm). Individual consumption points branch off at these secondary feeds with approximately 2-inch (5 cm) steel or PVC pipe, which then feeds water into the building’s plumbing system. These pipes are typically PVC or copper varieties averaging 1/2 inch to 1 inch (12.7 to 25.4 mm) in size and channel incoming power to individual water heaters, faucets, and toilets. Most of the joints in the installation of water pipes are compression type fittings in the case of PVC pipes or solder joints in the case of copper pipes.