Thursday, September 27, 2012

Siphonic Roof Drains



Advantages:

  • no slope required.  uses suction instead of gravity
  • full-bore flow.  no need to account for air in system = smaller pipes
Disadvantages:
  • still need to consider overflow drains or scuppers
  • all drains must be at same elevation to work together siphonically
see JR Smith, others.