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Section 903 Outdoor Vent Extension

Plumbing Code 2009 of Alabama > 9 Vents > 903 Outdoor Vent Extension

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903.1 Required Vent Extension

The vent system serving each building drain shall have at least one vent pipe that extends to the outdoors.

The required vent shall be a dry vent that connects to the building drain or an extension of a drain that connects to the building drain. Such vent shall not be an island fixture vent as allowed by Section 913.

903.1.2 Size

The required vent shall be sized in accordance with Section 916.2 based on the required size of the building drain.

903.2 Vent Stack Required

A vent stack shall be required for every drainage stack that has five branch intervals or more.

Exception: Drainage stacks installed in accordance with Section 910.

903.3 Vent Termination

Vent stacks or stack vents shall terminate outdoors to the open air or to a stack-type air admittance valve in accordance with Section 917.

903.4 Vent Connection at Base

Every vent stack shall connect to the base of the drainage stack. The vent stack shall connect at or below the lowest horizontal branch. Where the vent stack connects to the building drain, the connection shall be located downstream of the drainage stack and within a distance of 10 times the diameter of the drainage stack.

903.5 Vent Headers

Stack vents and vent stacks connected into a common vent header at the top of the stacks and extending to the open air at one point shall be sized in accordance with the requirements of Section 916.1. The number of fixture units shall be the sum of all fixture units on all stacks connected thereto, and the developed length shall be the longest vent length from the intersection at the base of the most distant stack to the vent terminal in the open air, as a direct extension of one stack.