This completely-revised edition brings this comprehensive manual fully up-to-date with all the latest plumbing codes. It is the journeyman's and apprentice's guide to installing plumbing, piping, and fixtures in residential and light commercial buildings: how to select the right materials, lay out the job and do professional-quality plumbing work, use essential tools and materials, make repairs, maintain plumbing systems, install fixtures, and add to existing systems. Includes hundreds of large, clear illustrations that show you what is required in isometrics, venting, traps, floor plans and layouts, DWV, septic tanks and drainfields, water supply, valves and faucets, hot water systems, roughing-in, maintenance, repairs, gas installation and swimming pools. Extensive study questions at the end of each chapter, and a section with all the correct answers.

Basic Plumbing Illustrated

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Howard C. Massey

Home Improvement & Design

Craftsman Book Co.

Planning Drain, Waste &amp; Vent Systems by Howard C. Massey This practical guide to planning and designing drainage, waste and vent systems will help you prepare plumbing plans for just about any project youre likely to handle: residential, commercial, private sewage disposal systems, mobile home parks -- even public toilet room layouts for the physically handicapped.
 It covers the entire subject, from basic plumbing principles to the final drawings. Emphasis is on designing systems that meet requirements for any of the popular plumbing codes.
 Detailed chapters cover: 
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<li>Basic Plumbing Principles</li> <li>Traps and Cleanouts</li> <li>General Regulations</li> <li>Interceptors and Separators</li> <li>Plumbing Materials</li> <li>Septic Tanks and Drainfields</li> <li>Vents and Venting</li> <li>Drawing DWV Plans</li>
</ul> Most plumbing designers know the inconvenience and expense of having their plans rejected -- often because of a small oversight. This manual has all the information you need to get your plans approved the first time, and to avoid expensive mistakes and delays.
 Everyone who plans or installs plumbing systems in communities where plumbing codes are enforced should have this practical manual.
 Illustrated with hundreds of diagrams, sketches and schematics, this is your best guide to the intricacies of drainage, waste and vent systems.
 Published by: Builders Book, Inc. 192 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (978-1-889892-29-0/1889892297)

Planning Drain, Waste & Vent Systems

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