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  2. Ice dam (roof) - Wikipedia

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    The ice on the wall is from water leaking through the roof due to an ice dam. Ice dams occur on heated buildings with sloping roofs in cold climates with deep snow accumulation. Ice dams on roofs form when accumulated snow forms an insulating layer under cold conditions that would cause the freezing point to be within the snow layer, if it were ...

  3. Drain-waste-vent system - Wikipedia

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    The key to a functional island fixture vent is that the top elbow must be at least as high as the "flood level" (the peak possible drain water level in the sink), allowing it to serve as a de facto vacuum breaker preventing the loop from becoming a siphon for an overfilled sink, as from a clogged drain (rather than vent) line.

  4. Thanksgiving Day Disaster - Wikipedia

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    Of the hundreds of people on the roof, at least 100 people fell four stories to the factory floor. Sixty to 100 more people fell directly on top of the furnace, the surface temperature of which was estimated to be around 500 °F (260 °C). Had the people broken through the furnace, their bodies would have been consumed by the molten glass.

  5. Boiler explosion - Wikipedia

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    The sudden dispersion and projection of the water in the boiler against the bounding surfaces of the boiler is the great cause of the violence of the results: the dispersion, being caused by the momentary generation of steam throughout the mass of the water, and in its efforts to escape, it carries the water before it, and the combined momentum ...

  6. Cricket (roofing) - Wikipedia

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    In some cases, a cricket can be used to transition from one roof area to another. On low-slope and flat roofs with parapet walls, crickets are commonly used to divert water to the drainage, against or perpendicular to the main roof slope. The pitch of a cricket is sometimes the same as the rest of the roof, but not always. For Steep-slope roofs ...

  7. Water-tube boiler - Wikipedia

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    A high pressure watertube boiler [1] (also spelled water-tube and water tube) is a type of boiler in which water circulates in tubes heated externally by fire. Fuel is burned inside the furnace, creating hot gas which boils water in the steam-generating tubes.

  8. Flat roof - Wikipedia

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    The best time to address the issue of ponding water is during the design phase of a new roofing project when sufficient falls can be designed-in to take standing water away. The quicker the water is got off the roof, the less chance there is for a roof leak to occur. A clogged flat roof drain causing water to pond.

  9. Water heating - Wikipedia

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    Gas furnace (top) and storage water heater (bottom) (Germany) In household and commercial usage, most North American and Southern Asian water heaters are the tank type, also called storage water heaters. These consist of a cylindrical vessel or container that keeps water continuously hot and ready to use.

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