Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Plumbing: Expanded 4th Edition - Modern Materials and Current Codes - All New Guide to Working with Gas Pipe Author: Editors of Creative Publishing | Language: English | ISBN:
1589233786 | Format: PDF
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Plumbing: Expanded 4th Edition - Modern Materials and Current Codes - All New Guide to Working with Gas Pipe Description
About the Author
The editors of Creative Publishing international have created more than 30 best-selling classics on home repair and remodeling. All books are researched, written, and edited by professionals with years of experience.
- Series: Black & Decker Complete Guide
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Cool Springs Press; 4 Expanded edition (July 1, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1589233786
- ISBN-13: 978-1589233782
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
The Black & Decker Complete Guide to Plumbing is the current and up to date edition of plumbing explanations, diagrams, repair and installation for the novice and experienced do it yourselfer as well as the general home owner.
Contents 25/25
Ease of Understanding/Practicality 25/25
Knowledge/Helpfulness 24/25
Pictures/Illustrations 24/25
Total 98/100
The Black & Decker Complete Guide To Plumbing 4th Edition wins my Blue Ribbon for Excellence due to it's complete and full content and help in understanding and repairing plumbing used in modern and older homes. The guide helps you not only understand the plumbing in a home but helps with common and some uncommon repairs and even goes as far as installation for upgrades.
The book starts with simple concepts of plumbing and how plumbing works in your home from the connections into the house to fixtures and appliances. The guide goes from simple repairs and installations to tools and types of plumbing materials and connections.
The Complete Guide To Plumbing helps you not only understand your homes pipes and drains but shows you how common plumbing runs through a house. They explain with detailed pictures and cut away's of fixtures how they work so you understand the internal workings of everything related to your homes plumbing.
This book is not only for the do it yourselfer or people wanting to fix up their homes plumbing and pipes but for any home owner who wants to know about their home. Every home owner should have this book, or one like it, because you should know what happens when you flush your toilet or turn on your shower.
OK, I'm sorry, but this book is horrid. If you didn't have the internet, then fine, it would be better than nothing, but if you DO have an internet connection and a computer with a web browser, the instructions and general information that you can find online will be more or less as good as what you find in this book (or in many cases, not as good). That is to say, not great and most often inapplicable. If you're doing your own plumbing it's almost certainly not because you have a brand new, up to date house. And it's as often as not repair or replacement of an existing item--perhaps a new p trap, perhaps a new faucet, perhaps a repair of a toilet or clogged drain. Pictures of the simple, straightforward situation, and simplistic step by step "instructions" are of limited usefulness to anyone who already has some common sense and mechanical and DIY aptitude.
So, what you would look for in a helpful book on plumbing--or what I was looking for--was something BEYOND this, something more in depth. I want to know some of the more likely variations I might see--in any old house, for example. I want a good section on the best tool set to get you started, along with rules of thumb and tips for using those tools. I want a section which takes you through the basics of threaded pipe assembly, teflon tape, thread sealant--and not in a stupid "use teflon tape" statement inside a single step of the instructions! HOW MUCH tape? What's the best way to handle it? Should you cut it? Should you pull it to break it off? Should you use tape AND sealant? What is the difference between soft set and hard set sealant? And how about some recommendations for when to use which type? What are the most useful sizes of pipe wrench to own for the average homeowner?
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Plumbing: Expanded 4th Edition - Modern Materials and Current Codes - All New Guide to Working with Gas Pipe Preview
Link
Please Wait...