Review of Plumbing: Mechanical Services: Bk. 1,9780131976207

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Plumbing: Mechanical Services: Bk. 1

Paperback
Edition: 5
Author: Gordon Blower
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date: April 2006
ISBN-10: 0131976206
ISBN-13: 9780131976207
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excelleant aid to my course	Customer Rating:
This book contains all the relevent information i need for my course with easy to understand diagrams and easy reading it also helps that if i don't understand a section in college this book will explain it in such a way that when i go back to class the following week i will understand everything thats is being said.

Read Book One First

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This is an excellent book despite some of the reviews.
The author writes in an understandable manner and manages to explain complex subjects in a down to earth manner.
The book imparts information that would take a year of NVQ training to achieve. Although it is an aid to completing NVQ level 2 & 3, you do not have to be taking these courses to read through the book.
The book presumes no other knowledge is being given to the reader.
What is does presume however, is that you have read book 1 in the series.
It does not actually state this in the synopsis / overview.
Book 1 covers plumbing fundamentals and book 2 expands and adds to some of the subjects covered previously.

You do not have to read every page of every book, but they make excellent reference books combining complex (but important) technical information with down to earth spanner work.
Another important point is that these books cover important water regulations that must be adhered to.
Boring as they maybe, even simple tasks like installing an outside tap can result in very easily poisoning a households water supply if bodged!

Overall this series is aimed more at people working or thinking of working in the trade.
However, confident (half intelligent) DIYers will have no trouble understanding the principles being explained.
That said, if you are standing in a flooded kitchen with a shiny new tap in one hand and cut pipe attempting to be wedged shut in the other, then there are probably better books (and better plumbers) for you.

Top read!

seperates the professional from the cowboy.....

Customer Rating:

this book offers anyone who has a sincere interest in plumbing the chance to enhance their knowledge base therefore understand the concept of all systems.
It is informative if you understand basic system design and want to know how to diagnose fault or indeed bad system layout in a scientific manner.
It gives you a lifetimes start on most self proclaimed "plumbers" and even to the well trained there are several chapters that will engage the mind and make for a better service to the end user i.e.customer
As you probably can tell by now I found and still find the book a great source of information.

Pompous and not in any way practicle	Customer Rating:
Pompous and not in any way practicle. This book is fine if you wish to know the mbar pressure for various systems stipulated by the 1986 water bylaws, but if you want install or diagnose problems with say central heating or simply fix a leaking pipe, or if you're an inexperienced Plumber wishing to enhance his knowledge - then this book will not help you.

Better than some.

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This book intended for someone learning the plumbing trade, with collage support, rather than someone learning a bit of DIY. All books have to make a choice. The choice, in a nutshell is 'how simple?'. Too simple is boring while too complex looses the reader. Most of the time G. J. gets it right and you can choose to to skip bits you don't want. This is not a book intended to be read front to back and you can skip about if you think ballvalves are more important than, say, screwed iron pipe (I rarely fit screwed iron).

This book will be an addition rather than the sole sorce of information and you may wish to contact the 'usefull addresses' for yet more information. Welcome to the plumbing industry.