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Plumbers, can you help me estimate water from flood?
Kitchen sink is left running full on unattended for six and a half hours without the trap underneath on. How do I work out the volume of water which flowed into the flat below from this flood?
4 Answers
- OLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
depending on water pressure (volume) could be 2000 gallons. who was the daft gonk who left it running, with no waste fitted, pull the other one, no one could be that stupid.
- Sean JLv 61 decade ago
Put a bucket of known capacity (say a gallon) under the tap an fill to the mark (of say a gallon). Note the time taken for water to reach the said mark. Let us say 20 seconds for one gallon.
6.5 hours = 6.5*60 minutes = 6.5*60*60 seconds = 23,400 seconds
Number of gallons in 6.5 hours at the rate of 1 gallon per 20 seconds is 23,400/20 = 1170 gallons.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
measure how much water collects in a jug in a 1 minute period and multiply that figure by 390 minutes (6.5 hours)
Lets say for example 1 and a half pints is collected in 1 minute.
6 hours 30 is 390 minutes x 1.5 pints = 585 pints
- Anonymous1 decade ago
If it's a newer faucet, it's likely restricted to 2 GPM. 6.5 hrs = 390 minutes x 2 = 780 gallons.
