Talk:hydrostatic pressure relief system

Request for verification
This particular phrase, while reasonably common in architectural engineering and construction, appears to remain a sum of parts. - Amgine/talk 14:39, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * If it’s a common phrase in engineering and construction, keep. Is it a system that relieves hydrostatic pressure, or is it a system that relieves pressure in something via hydrostatic means? Very technical. —Stephen 22:36, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Moved to RFD. (If you're not disputing our definition, but simply consider our definition to be "sum of parts", then that's not an RFV issue.) —Ruakh TALK 15:10, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Deletion debate

 * As this is a technical term, which has an exact meaning in engineering, I would very much want to keep this one. Technical terms tend to be extremely difficult to translate from one language to another just by using ordinary dictionaries, because they tend to omit any technical terms as "too specific" (I suppose). Currently there is only one translation (Finnish), but there is no way to deduce the English term from the Finnish one, of which the verbatim translation would be "hidden draining". The same is true the other way round. The first thing that comes into my mind from "hydrostatic pressure relief" is peeing. Following that logic, or lack of it, a "hydrostatic pressure relief system" could as well be a euphemism for a urinal. --Hekaheka 22:24, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

If the definition is correct — that this refers specifically to a system of drains and does not refer to any old system for relieving hydrostatic pressure — then yes, I'd say keep as idiomatic. &#x200b;— msh210 ℠ 22:30, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep as I can't think of a reason to delete it. Mglovesfun (talk) 16:32, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Oops! I'm sorry for my hasty conclusions, which are due to accepting the entry at face value. I just ran a Google search and it seems that "hydrostatic pressure relief system" refers to a system consisting of several elements of which underground drainage is only one. Other elements may include a crushed gravel bed surrounding the foundation, waterproofing subterranean parts of the walls, installing panels that facilitate drainage and possibly others such as geotextiles. To answer Stephen G. Brown's question, it is a system that keeps the water that is present in the ground outside the basement, i.e. relieves hydrostatic pressure. To sum up, I change my vote to neutral. --Hekaheka 17:41, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Passes. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:11, 7 January 2010 (UTC)