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Title: Plumber's Handbook by Howard C. Massey ISBN: 1-57218-056-0 Publisher: Craftsman Book Co Pub. Date: May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not the book if you are plumbing your own house
Comment: I'm building my own house and bought this book as a plumbing reference. It has pretty much sat on the shelf. It is more oriented toward the full time plumber who is doing multiple types of jobs. Too much time spent on the many fascets of plumbing and too little time spent on how it applies to doing a residential job.
Instead I'd recommend "Complete Home Plumbing" by Sunset books. That book has been my first read when a question comes up.
Rating: 5
Summary: A plumbing detail lover's dream
Comment: I'm a man the thrives on detailed information. And I salute this Howard Massey for producing this first-rate plumbing book! Beware, this is not a book for weekend Joe looking to learn how to replace a faucet washer. Even if your not in the plumbing trade, but are serious about learning to understand and design plumbing service for your home or business, you have found the book you want.
So many technical books paint their subject with such broad brush strokes that, after reading the book, the reader is left to discover for themselves (as in "the hard way") what necessary detail was omitted. Not this book. It's complete, well organized, well indexed, and riddled with excellent photographs and illustrations.
While the book is entirely in in black and white, the author very effectively used an artist with a computer to expertly draw most of the illustrations. The fidelity of the graphics is worthy of a graphic arts how-to book.
To give you a sense of how thorough and complete this book is, I'll describe the problem I recently used it to understand and solve. A family friend, who is a veterinarian, recently mortgaged everything to buy her own animal hospital. As soon as she bought is the drains started backing up. Roto-Rooter started coming monthly to remove pet hair from the sewer pipes. I went to the "Plumbers Handbook" and it not only had a section on trapping hair, it even had a topic specific to the control of hair generated by kennels and animal care facilities!
What a super book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Plumbing Concepts - Residential and Small Commercial
Comment: Excellent book for designers and architects to use for residential and small commerical structures. Provides the Plumbers point of view on necessary design elements for layout of fixtures, pipes, etc.
Provides excellent explanation on how to read a plumbing design layout and superb insight in to the plumbing codes. Provides the details that will allow a designer or architect to adequately communicate with plumbing contractors.
Good overview for architects/designers and a very useful study guide for plumbers and plumbing contractors.
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Title: Basic Plumbing With Illustrations by Howard C. Massey ISBN: 0934041997 Publisher: Craftsman Book Co Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: Code Check Plumbing: A Field Guide to the Plumbing Codes (Code Check: Plumbing, 1st Ed) by Redwood Kardon, Michael Casey, Douglasy Hansen, Jeff Hutcher, Paddy Morrissey ISBN: 1561584096 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Plumbing a House (For Pros by Pros Series) by Peter Hemp ISBN: 1561583332 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Plumber's Exam Preparation Guide by Howard C. Massey ISBN: 0934041040 Publisher: Craftsman Book Co Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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Title: Plumber's Licensing Study Guide by R. Dodge Woodson ISBN: 0071377859 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 12 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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