In tenement houses where there are two or more closets in a
group, lodging houses, factories, workshops, public buildings and
in all places where water closets and urinals are for public use,
the floor of the entire toilet room in which water closets and urinals
are located and side walls to a height of at least 16 inches from
the floor, except at the door, must be waterproofed with asphalt,
cement, tile, slate or other material impervious to moisture, approved
by the Plumbing Inspector or other designated officer.
Water closets or urinals shall not be located in any room or
apartment of any building until the proposed location shall be first
approved by the Plumbing Inspector or other designated officer.
Water closet and urinal compartments or rooms shall have direct
communication with the outer air either by a window or air shaft having
an area of at least four square feet, except where forced ventilation
by an exhaust fan is used; in such case the air shaft shall be of
such area as necessary to provide for six complete changes of air
per hour. If an exhaust fan is used, its rated capacity shall be not
less than 600 cubic feet of air removal per minute. All such ventilation
shafts shall be approved by the Plumbing Inspector or other designated
officer.
Water closets or urinals shall not be located in or entered
directly from a kitchen or room in which food is kept or prepared
for public consumption for sale.
Water closets shall not be located in sleeping rooms.
The principal water closet accommodations for a tenement, rooming
or lodging house shall not be located in the cellar, basement or under
the sidewalk.
Where a water closet is located in a cellar or basement of a
building not used as a dwelling, there shall be provided a window
having an opening to the outer air of not less than six square feet
where practicable, and the floors shall be impervious to moisture,
with a base of the same material 16 inches in height around the walls.
The water closet fixtures shall be of a modern-type, high-grade, siphon-flushing-bowl
pattern, supplied with water from a special tank.
Whenever a water closet of a prohibited type is replaced, the
reconstruction of adjacent small-fixture wastes and vents required
to bring them into conformity with these rules and regulations shall
be performed and the soil stack also extended at least one foot above
the building.
A.
All urinals shall be constructed of a material impervious to moisture
and that will not corrode under the action of urine. The floors and
walls of the urinal compartments shall be lined with a similar noncorrosive
and nonabsorbent material.
B.
Iron trough urinals shall be enameled iron, inside and outside. No
plain or painted urinals will be permitted.
C.
Urinals equipped with a flushing valve must have a flush pipe of
not less than one inch in diameter.
Plans for the drainage of water closets, etc., in bakeries,
factories or manufacturing establishments will not be approved by
the Plumbing Inspector or other designated officer until they have
first received the approval of the Department of Labor and Industry
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Every dwelling to which a public sewer and water main is accessible
shall have a water closet, thoroughly flushed at all times, in a separate
and independent compartment; and in dwellings having a furnace or
other heating system, there shall be, when feasible, at least one
such water closet located within the dwelling in a separate compartment
in the bathroom.
