Continuous Vents
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continuous vent is a vent which extends from a vertical soil or waste
pipe and can serve one or multiple fixtures located on the same story.
Continuous vents; like all plumbing vents, protect the trap seal(s) of
the fixtures they serve. The most common application of continuous
vents are when serving wet vented branches as seen in the image on the
right(click the image to view).
The naming terminology of continuous vents overlap with individual vents and dual vents, if they are connected to a vertical soil or waste pipe, but the sizing requirements are different. If the soil or waste pipe passes through one or more stories it becomes a stack and will be vented by a stack vent not a continuous vent.
Sizing Continuous Vents
There are two sizing factors that determine the size of a continuous vent; they are:
- The drainage fixture units on the soil or waste pipe they serve;
- The length of the vent from the connection to the vertical soil or waste pipe, to a major source of air(vent stack, stack vent or outside air).
