Product Description

The single most complete source of information available to plumbers

Here's an on-the-job field handbook you'll want to store in your truck, office, toolbox.--anyplace close at hand when you need a plumbing solution FAST! Plumbing: Tips, Data, and Rules of Thumb serves up the vast skill and expertise of R. Dodge Woodson, a master plumber with more than 20 years experience in the field. Writing with the clarity, completeness, and confidence of a hands-on expert, Mr. Woodson provides an invaluable one-stop resource for everyone involved in the plumbing trade. He tackles just about every plumbing topic imaginable, from clogged drains to electric motors. You get useful data on current code considerations, money-saving remodeling pointers, and troubleshooting techniques. Whether you need to tone up your estimating skills, could use a hand with sizing plumbing systems, or need some special insights into private well and septic systems -- you'll find it all in this guide. Hundreds of graphics and tables help provide quick, easy answers to just about any on-the-job plumbing problem you'll ever come across.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2128461 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 770 pages

From the Back Cover
THE SINGLE MOST COMPLETE SOURCE OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO PLUMBERS!

Here's an on-the-job field handbook plumbers and contractors will be sure to store in their truck, office, toolbox...anyplace they can reach into when they need an answer FAST!

PLUMBING: TIPS, DATA, AND RULES OF THUMB includes handy "rules of thumb" and "did you know" text boxes covering everything from sizing piping to code issues to insights gained by the author's field experience. Hundreds of other graphics and tables provide quick, easy answers to just about any on-the-job problem a plumber would have.

Writing with the clarity, completeness, and surety of a hnds-on expert with over 20 years professional experience, Mr. Woodson provides an invaluable one-stop dynamically designed resource for anyone involved in the plumbing trade.

BY AN AUTHOR WITH THE EXPERIENCE TO KNOW WHAT QUESTIONS YOU WOULD ASK!

Author R. Dodge Woodson, a master plumber with more than 20 years experience in the field tackles just about every plumbing topic imaginable, ranging from clogged drains to electric motors. He also includes useful data such as:

* Current Code Considerations
* Troubleshooting Techniques
* Sizing Plumbing Systems
* Remodeling Pointers
* Mathematics for the People
* Private Well and Septic Systems

About the Author
R. Dodge Woodson is the owner of Advanced Plumbing and a licensed master plumber and licensed master gasfitter with over 25 years of field experience. He has written many best-selling books for McGraw-Hill and has served as adjunct faculty for Central Maine Technical College as an instructor of both plumbing code classes and plumbing apprentice classes. Woodson has been called America's plumber and is well known internationally for his expertise in the trade.

Customer Reviews

Great resource for Plumbers.
The author, whom has written a number of other titles on this same subject, has a wealth of knowledge about all facets of Plumbing. What is also notable as well as commendable is when reading his books, you get the feeling that he really likes this field. If Plumbing is your business, then it would be to your advantage to have this as well as some of Woodson's other titles in your collection. This book doesn't pretend to be any more than a vast, comprehensive reference tool--and in my opinion, succeeds. This is the book that you have in your truck if you are a plumber or on the shelf beside your desk if you are a designer. My only criticism (a minor one) is the lack of explanation of pumps and their sizing. Some charts and diagrams are offered but no explanation is given as a follow through. Overall though, I recommend the text as great reference resource every plumber should have.

Plumbing: Tips, Data and Rules of Thumb
A lot of charts and such, but not very well written for the novice or everyday handyman. Didn't go into enough detail on repairs or installation processes. Might be a good book for a journeyman plumber. Not a good how-to book.