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UL                      Underwriters Laboratories

 

ULF                    Ultra Low Flush. Widely used description of 1.6 gpf or less toilets.

 

UNC                   Unified National Coarse Thread. A standard kind of coarse straight thread used                               on fittings, nuts, and bolts. Not for pipes.

 

UNF                    Unified National Fine Thread. A standard kind of fine straight thread used on                                   fittings, buts, and bolts. Not for pipes.

 

USEPA               United States Environmental Protection Agency

 

USPHS               United States Public Health Service

 

Ultracoil            True double wall heat exchanger.

 

Uni-flex             One piece stop and riser combination. One-piece supply.

 

Uniformity

Coefficient        A measure of the variation in particle sizes of ion exchange resins and filter                                     media. It is defined as the ratio of the size of particle that has 60 percent of the                                material finer than itself, to the size of the particle that has 10 percent finer than                               itself.

 

Union                 Three piece fitting that joins two sections of pipe, but allows them to be                                            disconnected without cutting the pipe. Used primarily with steel pipe; never in a                               DWV system.

 

Universal

Plumbing

Code                  A system of procedures designed to provide consumers with safe and sanitary                                plumbing systems and used throughout the United States by local jurisdictions.

 

 

Urinal                 A plumbing fixture which receives only liquid body waste and conveys the waste                              through a trap seal into a gravity drainage system.

 

 

Urinal

Strainers           Refers to a domed metal piece fastened to the bottom of an urinal to prevent                                   debris from plugging the trapway of the unit.

 

 

Usable

Storage             Percentage of hot water that can be drawn from a tank before the temperature                                drops to a point that it is no longer considered hot.

 

Utility Sink        Deep fixed basin, supplied with hot and cold water, which is used for rinsing of                                mops, disposal of cleaning water.

 

 

 

 

 

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