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I've been trying off and on for years to find labels to permanently affix to cleanout bodies that are upstream of a backwater valve in order to fully satisfy the 2012 UPC code 710.1.. that inform a drain cleaner that they need to try and find and remove the flapper before sending their cable/jetter/camera down.
I could install a tag (probably by gluing) on the cleanout plug.. but that's only sort of permanent since that could be misplaced.
The shoulder of the cleanout body (measured on 2 separate cleanouts) where the plug threads into is 1/8" to 3/16th and the diameters vary by type (if you're using the style with a mechanical test plug / pass through insert Holdrite brand). If the cleanout is installed in a finished wall and only the opening is visible then affixing tape on the hub becomes invisible and not useful to the end user (not that I as the installer care if the drain cleaner loses a $5k camera right?)
I've seen one backwater warning label ever in my life about 8 years ago. Google comes up with nothing. I asked four of my drain cleaners and one of them said they had seen one or two labels ever.. My most experienced drain cleaner says he's never seen one.
An inspector actually wrote us up for not having the labels installed...
Does anyone know if there is a ready made product/label? How they attach? Good work arounds (my dad would have brought a bottle of whisky to meet the inspector )
I could install a tag (probably by gluing) on the cleanout plug.. but that's only sort of permanent since that could be misplaced.
The shoulder of the cleanout body (measured on 2 separate cleanouts) where the plug threads into is 1/8" to 3/16th and the diameters vary by type (if you're using the style with a mechanical test plug / pass through insert Holdrite brand). If the cleanout is installed in a finished wall and only the opening is visible then affixing tape on the hub becomes invisible and not useful to the end user (not that I as the installer care if the drain cleaner loses a $5k camera right?)
I've seen one backwater warning label ever in my life about 8 years ago. Google comes up with nothing. I asked four of my drain cleaners and one of them said they had seen one or two labels ever.. My most experienced drain cleaner says he's never seen one.
An inspector actually wrote us up for not having the labels installed...
Does anyone know if there is a ready made product/label? How they attach? Good work arounds (my dad would have brought a bottle of whisky to meet the inspector )