Talk:Air gap (plumbing)

Diagram

I do not have the skills to produce a diagram, Viriditas. However, I can upload some photos to Wikimedia Commons, showing a typical air gap installation from above, showing the finished appearance, and also from below, showing the connection to the dishwasher and the garbage disposal. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 05:08, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Cullen328. However, I was adding the tag to the talk page for User:Ehn.[1] I am interested in how the diagram would appear. If you upload the photos we can post to them to the photo lab for diagram construction. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 02:05, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A photograph has been added. I have removed the tag "Mechanical diagram requested", but feel free to reinstate it if a clearer diagram is needed. Egmason (talk) 03:56, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[Four years later...] The "air gap" is not the air between the tap and the surface of the water, or between the tap the base of the empty sink, but rather between the tap and the rim of the sink. More useful than the present photograph would be an animation of a system without an airgap; e.g. a tap whose outflow is below the height of the rim of the sink into which it pours, where the water siphons back into the pipe when the pressure is off. jnestorius^(talk) 14:24, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]