BS 8000-15:1990

Foreword
Section 1. General
1.1 Scope
1.2 References
1.3 Definitions
Section 2. Materials, handling and preparation
2.1 Checking, handling and site storage of materials
      and components
2.2 Preparation of work, materials and components
Section 3. Installation
3.1 General safety
3.2 Jointing, cutting and bending pipes
3.3 Connections between different materials
3.4 Jointing pipes to cisterns and tanks
3.5 Below ground piping
3.6 Above ground piping
3.7 Accessibility of pipes and fittings
Section 4. Inspection, testing and cleansing
4.1 General
4.2 Inspection
4.3 Leakage testing
4.4 Testing of below ground pipelines
4.5 Testing of installations within buildings
4.6 Back-siphonage
4.7 Before commissioning
Tables
1. Jointing of copper or stainless steel tube systems
2. Maximum spacing of fixings for internal piping
Figures
1. Directions of thrusts developed in a pipeline due
     to internal pressure
2. Recommended positions of notches and holes in timber
     beams and joists
3. Typical examples of pipes entering buildings
4. Accessibility of pipes
5. Recommended clear space above storage cisterns
Index
List of references

Recommendations on basic workmanship. Common Arrangement of Work Section (CAWS) classification S12.

This Part of BS 8000 gives recommendations on basic workmanship and covers those tasks which are frequently carried out in relation to hot and cold water services (domestic scale).

For design aspects of hot and cold water services, reference should be made to BS 6700.

NOTE This code of practice includes supplementary elements in the form of commentaries to assist in its use and understanding. Compliance with the commentaries is not necessary in order to be able to claim conformity with the standard.