Originally Posted By: phughes
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Ok gentlemen, do you all have to report the lack of an air gap device on the drain of a dishwasher?
Is it required in your areas?
Ok gentlemen, do you all have to report the lack of an air gap device on the drain of a dishwasher?
Is it required in your areas?
Originally Posted By: jpope
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Yes. I believe it’s pretty much a national requirement to prevent a cross connection.
There should be an air-gap or a "high-loop."
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Originally Posted By: phughes
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Now there in, lies the rub. The high loop, or sanitary loop, is what appears to be required by most manufacturers and the IRC.
I wonder who has stock in those leaky air gap devices?
Thanks
Originally Posted By: jane molina
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peter or all
The high loop if no air gap should start from the disposal , go high and then
loop down to the dishwasher correct
Originally Posted By: ecrofutt
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For a good discussion of air gap devices, go to this thread in which I made an a$% of myself and discovered that air gaps are not nearly so universal as I and many others had thought.
http://www.nachi.org/bbsystem/viewtopic.php?t=2678&highlight=air+gap
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Originally Posted By: Blaine Wiley
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I have not seen an air gap since I’ve been inspecting in FL. Everything here is a high loop.
So are some of the plumbers who install them 
Originally Posted By: rray
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And so are some of the home inspectors who look at them.
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