Französisch: accès gaine (WC renversé)Englisch translation: service duct access (reverse-trap WC) 
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| Glossareintrag (aus Frage unten abgeleitet) | | Französisch Begriff oder Satz: | accès gaine (WC renversé) | | Englisch Übersetzung: | service duct access (reverse-trap WC) | | Eingetragen von: | N.M. Eklund |
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Bus/Financial - Bauwesen/Hochbau/Tiefbau / Administrative | | Französisch Begriff oder Satz: accès gaine (WC renversé) | Hi,
I'm working on a sales agreement, but my limited construction terminology can't help me with the following sentence:
Eléments sanitaires -
WC: neufs au droit de salles d'eau accès gaine (WC renversés)
Please help!
thanks in advance |
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| Notiz(en) an den/des Fragesteller(s)jacqueb: 4:52am Feb 19, 2007: Honey, you really need to get more input from the source, cause as it stands, this makes no sense whatsoever.
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 Miranda Joubioux
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| Hinweis von Fragesteller an den AntwortendenI asked my clients for more information, and even they had no idea and told me to forget the sentence.
I think this would be the closest, for anyone searching in the future.
Thank you all for your help!
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| duct acces, access by duct
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However I really don't see what is going on. The text is telegraphic, and I don't know what they mean by "WC renversés". Sounds messy and unpleasant.
However, I wonder if this is a system where the toilet pans back onto a wall, behind which is a service duct containing the cisterns and providing access to pipes and cleaning eyes etc.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-02-18 14:49:54 GMT)
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Just wondering if by "WC renversé" they mean what I call "German toilets" or "short-drop toilets", where there is a shallow pan containing a shallow pool of water (great for inspecting your stools, and not enough to submerge odours), with the outlet towards the FRONT of the WC (presumably sweeping back underneath and to the wall, which is why the pan floor is high.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-02-18 14:55:41 GMT)
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In Germany and elsewhere in Europe it is not uncommon for the toilet bowl to allow feces to rest on a ledge before being washed away by the flush. The design of many German lavatory bowls is the reverse of that in most other western countries, with the sewer outlet towards the front of the bowl rather than at the rear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_toilet
Since it's very much a cultural exception in the ESW, I don't know if we have a recognized name for it.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-02-18 15:05:44 GMT)
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Poland Dispatch: The German Poo-Shelf Toilet
Next to the infamous Squat-hole toilets of Asia and southern France, the German Poo-Shelf Toilet [subsequently referred to as the GPST] is undoubtedly one of the least pleasant methods of waste removal - assuming you're like most folks and don't feel the need to get to know your waste. It finds itself here in western Poland because this region was once part of Germany until the Germans got all riled up and tried to take over the world. They're better now, but the legacy of their doody-tech remains.
The Poo-Shelf comes from a period in German history when Germans were less interested in world domination and apparently more interested in spending quality time with their feces. That, or they were prone to accidentally eating their wedding rings and needed a toilet that allowed them to conveniently rummage through their dung before dispatching it to the abyss. Those must have been fascinating times and I'm quite glad I wasn't born in them
[read the whole article for a good laugh at the expense of the Germans]
www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000212.html
www.banterist.com/.../images/germantoilet.jpg
It seems a number of people refer to them as German toilets (diversely qualified as "bad", "crazy"), like me.
www.randomgirl.com/germantoilet.jpg
photos.apocrita.info/.../images/DSCN0414.jpg
photos.apocrita.info/.../pages/DSCN0414.html
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-02-18 15:12:52 GMT)
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The Banterist article above goes on to explain why Germans have these toilets (health reasons) and what THEY call the different types: Hochspüler (theirs) and Tiefspüler (ours) or "high-flush" and "low-flush" types.
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I like the following "observation deck" comment:
Vous avez le choix entre le WC allemand avec plate forme d’observation, l’américain surdimensionné, Il y aussi l’italien, le japonais, le turc ou l’indien. ...
www.rtl.fr/info/article.asp?dicid=482679 -
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| service duct (reverse-trap WC)
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http://www.th.kohler.com/general/glossary.html
Reverse-Trap Water Closet
A water closet having a siphonic trapway at the rear of the bowl, and integral flushing rim and jet. Minimum dimensions are 9" x 8" water spot, and 1 1/2" ball pass.
| | Hinweis von Fragesteller an den AntwortendenI asked my clients for more information, and even they had no idea and told me to forget the sentence.
I think this would be the closest, for anyone searching in the future.
Thank you all for your help! |
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