§ 8-175. Securing, supporting house piping.

(a)

All house piping shall be secured and fastened to the floor, joists or sills, either with galvanized pipe straps or pipe hooks, or with perforated pipe straps.

(b)

The maximum spacing of supports for piping, based upon the size of pipe, shall be as follows:

½ inch pipe	6 feet
¾ to 1 inch pipe	8 feet
1¼ inch or larger, horizontal pipe	10 feet
1¼ inch or larger, vertical pipe	each floor

 

(c)

When it is necessary in running pipe to cross through wood joist or beams, such joists or beams shall never be notched more than one-fifth of the depth of the timber and such notching shall in no case be further from the point of support of the timber than one-sixth of the total unsupported span thereof. Whenever possible, the piping shall run so that only timbers having the shortest spans shall be cut.

(Code 1968, § 9-45; Ord. No. 198, § 7(b)—(d), 6-7-1949)