Commercial Plumbing? We Do That Too. A quick look at True Plumbers on a commercial plumbing job. Businesses across Central Florida call the same crews homeowners trust.
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Hi, I'm Chris with True [music] Plumbers. Today we're in Plant City. We're out here at Black Rock adding a mobile office space. We're installing the new plumbing out here for it. The goal today is to get [music] the water from the city meter to the building and then drainage from the building back to [music] the city drain. What he's doing is he's actually digging out for the sewer drain and he's digging it out at a 8th inch per foot and that allows the solids and the water to keep up with each other [music] so you don't have continuous stoppage issues in the future. We're going to cut a 24-in wide ditch so that way we can dig all this out for our certified plumber. This is our city sewer main. We're going to be tying onto this to run our drain pipe from our mobile office over here. We're all wrapped up here at Black Rock Asphalt. We got the water coming in, flowing great, leaving even better. I'm Chris, your True Plumber.
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A quick look at True Plumbers on a commercial plumbing job. Businesses across Central Florida call the same crews homeowners trust.
Read the transcript
Hi, I'm Chris with True [music] Plumbers. Today we're in Plant City. We're out here at Black Rock adding a mobile office space. We're installing the new plumbing out here for it. The goal today is to get [music] the water from the city meter to the building and then drainage from the building back to [music] the city drain. What he's doing is he's actually digging out for the sewer drain and he's digging it out at a 8th inch per foot and that allows the solids and the water to keep up with each other [music] so you don't have continuous stoppage issues in the future. We're going to cut a 24-in wide ditch so that way we can dig all this out for our certified plumber. This is our city sewer main. We're going to be tying onto this to run our drain pipe from our mobile office over here. We're all wrapped up here at Black Rock Asphalt. We got the water coming in, flowing great, leaving even better. I'm Chris, your True Plumber.
On the Job: Commercial Plumbing for a New Mobile Office in Plant City
In this job walkthrough, Chris from True Plumbers takes you to Black Rock in Plant City, where the crew is plumbing a brand-new mobile office space from scratch: fresh water from the city meter to the building, and drainage from the building back to the city drain.
Why drain slope is the whole ballgame
The detail Chris calls out on camera - digging the sewer drain at an eighth of an inch of fall per foot - is the single most important number in gravity drainage. Too little slope and water pools; too much and the water outruns the solids, leaving them stranded in the pipe to build tomorrow's clog. Plumbing code sets the acceptable range (roughly a quarter inch per foot for smaller household branch lines, an eighth for larger mains like this one), and getting it right is why a properly installed line can run for decades without a stoppage.
What a commercial install involves that DIY never sees
- Permits pulled before the first shovel, and city inspections before anything is buried
- A licensed contractor tying into the municipal water meter and sewer main - not a handyman job, legally or practically
- Trenching sized for the pipe and for the person who has to lay it (the 24-inch ditch in the video)
- Pressure and flow testing before the trench closes, because fixing it after costs ten times more
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