Hi,
I am inquiring about the difference between private lavatory and public lavatory faucets. Based on the reference guide, I understand that all faucets in restrooms other than hotel guest rooms and hospital patient rooms are to be considered public lavatory faucets with a baseline flow rate of .5 gpm. If a .5 gpm flow rate is used as the baseline, how can the flow rate be improved at these faucets to contribute to the points? Please advise. Thank you!
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Michelle Rosenberger
PartnerArchEcology
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October 11, 2013 - 4:17 pm
Hi Lucy,
We often use a metered faucet with a 0.5 gpm flowrate. That means using the calculation - 0.5 gpm X 12 sec duration / 60 seconds - you enter a proposed rate of 0.1 gpm. That can help considerably depending on your scenario.