NATIONAL PLUMBING CODE

OF THE
PHILIPPINES

GROUP MEMBERS:
AMOREN, KRISTIANA ISABEL
ECONAR, ANGEL ANNA REY
HEREDIA, ATHEA
LAGUNA, CARLO RUEZLI
OGAO-OGAO, MARY CLAED
ORDIENESA, JODEL
PITOGO, JANINE
LEOPARDAS, JOYLYN
 CHAPTER 1
ADMINISTRATION
1. Application for Permit:

2. Application for Existing Plumbing System

3. Inspection:

4. Connection Approval:

PLUMBING FIXTURE REQUIRED:

CHAPTER 2
DEFINITION
 CHAPTER 3
GENERAL REGULATION
1. Section 301: Grade of Horizontal Drainage Piping

2. Section 302: Changes in Direction of Drainage Flow

3. Section 303: Prohibited Fittings and Practices

4. Section 304: Protection of Piping Material and Structures

5. Section 305: Hangers and Support

6. Section 306: Trenching, Excavation and Backfill

 CHAPTER 4
PLUMBIING FIXTURES

1. Materials – Plumbing Requirements

2. Materials – Alternative

3. Strainers & Connections

4. Special Fixtures & Specialties

5. Installation

6. Shower Stall

7. Minimum Ration of Plumbing Facilities

 CHAPTER 5
INSPECTION & TEST
In water testing, the water shall be kept in the pipe system or in the potion under test for at least
15 minutes before the inspection starts.

In air testing, after closing all other inlets & outlets, air is forced in the pipe system (through a
connection with an air compressor), until there is a uniform gauge pressure of 34.5 Kpa sufficient
to balance a column of mercury 254mm in height for a period of at least 15 minutes.

In water piping, it shall be tested & proved tight under water pressure not less than the working
pressure which is to be used plus 50% for a period of at least 15 minutes. A 344.5 Kpa air
pressure may be substituted for the water test.
 CHAPTER 6
WATER SUPPLY & DISTRIBUTION
1. Backflow Prevention Devices,
Assemblies, & Methods
5. Valves

2. General Requirements

6. Gravity Supply Tanks

3. Specific Requirements

7. Water Pressure, Pressure

Regulators & Preure Relief
Valves

4. Material
 8. Installation, inspection, & Testing

9. Size of Potable Water Piping

Pipe Section A-B B-C B-D D-E B-F F-G G-H H-I
Constant GPM
WSFU Total 16.8 1.5 3.3 2.3 12.0 9.0 6.0 3.0
Total GPM 18.0 3.0 6.5 5.0 16.0 13.7 10.7 6.5
Velocty 4.3 3.7 2.4 3.1 3.8 3.3 3.9 4.0
Piping Pressure 0.50 1.59 0.23 0.13 0.10 0.08 0.14 0.20
Loss

10. Equivalent Water Supply Fixture Unit

11. Support

12. Thrust Blocking

 CHAPTER 7
EXCRETA DRAINAGE SYSTEM
1. Materials
Excreta Drainage Pipings No Galvanized Wrought Iron or
Glavanized Steel Pipe

ABS & PVC DWV

No Vitrified Clay Pipes or Fittings

Drainage Fittings

2. Size of Drainage Piping

 3. Changes in Direction of Excreta Drainage Flow

4. Cleanouts

5. Drainage of Fixtures Location Below the Upstream Manhole or Below the Main
Sewer Level

Discharged pipe not be less than Vent of sump & Receiving tanks shall extends
50.8 mm diameter separately to the roof by 51 mm min.

Air tanks for ejector should have an Air

pressure of 3kg min.
 CHAPTER 8
INDIRECT WATE PIPING, WET VENTED SYSTEMS & SPECAL WASTES
1. Indirect Waste Conditions

2. Indirect Waste Piping

3. Indirect Waste Receptors

4. Steam & Hot Water Drainage Condenser & Sumps

5. Chemical Waste

6. Vertical Wet Piping

7. Combination Waste & Vent System (CW & VS)

8. Air Conditioning Equipment

 CHAPTER 9
VENTS & VENTING
1. Materials

Vent Pipes Vent Fittings

2. Size of Vents

Not be less than 1 1/ (32mm) nor less than ½ the diameter

3. Vent Termination

Terminate vertically not less ttahn 15cm above the roof.

Clearance of 0.3m.
4. Vent Stacks & Relief Vents

Yoke vent in connection with the vent stack shall be placed

not less than 1.0m above the floor level
 CHAPTER 10
TRAPS & INTERCEPTORS
1. Traps Required

3 single compartment sink

3 lavatories not more than 0.75m apart
And any tailpiece or connection shall
exceed 0.6m long

2. Trap Seals

Every trap shall have a water seal not less than

51mm & not more than 102mm deep

3. Industrial Interceptors (Clarifiers) & Separators

Accessible for cleaning & shall have a water seal not less than 152mm deep
4. Grease Traps

Total capacity shall not exceed 2 ½ times the certified liters per minute flowrate
of grease traps

5. Sand Interceptors

Shall have a dimension of 0.2m^2 min. for the net free opening of the inlet
section & a 610mm min. depth under the invert of the outlet pipe
 CHAPTER 11
STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEM
1. Rainwater system

Rainwater Downspout or Rainwater Downspout or

Conductor Piping Conductor

2. Roof Drain

Strainers
Vertical Wall Areas

 For 1 wall – add 50% of area of the wall to the roof area
 For 2 adjacent walls – add 35% of the total wall areas to the roof area
 For 2 walls opposite each other & of the same heights – add NO additional area
 Vertical piping may be round, square or rectangular provided that the area of a
rectangular piping shall have at least the equivalent cross sectional area of a circular
piping & its dimensions shall not exceed 3 to 1.
 CHAPTER 12
HOUE DRAIN & HOUSE SEWERS
1. Sewer Required

Public sewer is not available located more than 61m from the proposed building
or exterior facility.

2. Size of Building Sewers

No case size of building sewer shall be less than

150mm.

3. Grade, Support, & Protection of Building Sewer

Grade of building sewer shall not be less than 2%. Not be installed not less than
0.6m, and nor less than 0.3m below the finish surface of the ground.
4. Cleanouts

Sewer cleanouts shall be installed not to exceed 15m o.c in straight runs & each
aggregate exceeding 135 degrees.

5. Sewer & Water Pipes

Bottom of the water pipe shall be at least 0.3m above the top of the sewer or drain line.

6. Abandoned Sewers & Sewage Disposal Facilities

Shall be plugged or capped in an approved manner within 1.5m of the property line.
 CHAPTER 13
JOINTS & CONNECTION
1. Types of Joints

Threaded Joints
Caulked Joint
z

Wiped Joints

Solder & Sweat Joints

2. Use of Joints

Clay Sewer Pipes

Copper Water Tube

Screwed pipe to Cast

Iron Pipe
3. Special Joints

Slip Joints

Clay Sewer Pipes

Expansion Joints

4. Flanged Fixture Connection

Gasket Material shall be graphite-impregnated asbestos, felt, or

similar approval types
 CHAPTER 14
QUALITY & WEIGHT OF MATERIALS, PLUMBING MATERIALS & REFLECTED
STANDARD
1. Use of Copper Tubing

2. Lead

3. Closet Rings (Closet Flanges)

4. Valves & Fittings

5. Reference Specifications for Plumbing Materials

6. Plumbing Materials (some)

 APPENDIX A
RECOMMENDED RULES FOR SIZING THE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM

1. General
 Velocities shall not exceed 3m/sec of the maximum values given in the
appropriate installation standard.
 Allowances in Equivalent Length of Pipe shall be based on non-recessed
threaded fittings. For recessed threaded fittings or streamline solder fittings,
use 1/2 the allowances.

2. Demands Weight of Fixtures in Water Supply Fixtures Units

 The weights for maximum separate demands may be taken as 75% of the demand
for supply
 APPENDIX B:
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM

1. General

2. Capacity of Septic Tanks

3. Area of Disposal Fields & Seepage Pits

4. Septic Tnnk Construction

5. Concrete Septic tanks 9. Cesspools

6. Steel septic tanks

10. Commercial or Industrial Special
Liquid Waste Disposal

7. Disposal Fields

11. Types of Water Closet

8. Seepage Pits