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1.		Black & Decker Complete Guide to Plumbing: Expanded 4th Edition - Modern Materials and Current Codes - All New Guide to Working with Gas Pipe from Creative Publishing international Price: $16.49 Customer Review: Great help book for the do-it-yourselfer! Great details and illustrations on how to properly install home plumbing. Also gives you advice on things and building code requirements to watch out for.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Solar Water Heating: A Comprehensive Guide to Solar Water and Space Heating Systems (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) from New Society Publishers Price: $14.40 Customer Review: This was supposed to a gift for my dad. I waited 6 weeks for my book then a week before Christmas they told me they lost it. They ruined Christmas.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks from Oasis Design Price: $12.52 Customer Review: I enjoyed this book, and it had some great ideas. The big expense for all of these is not so much collecting the rain, even in the desert where I live, but storing the rain. The secret to saving water is storage, storage, storage. We are not talking rain barrels here, but as the author points out we... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		The New Create an Oasis with Greywater: Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systems - Includes Branched Drains from Oasis Design Price: $13.37 Customer Review: This is THE book, no matter if you don't know what greywater is or if you are a DIYer hacking into your plumbing. Lots of pictures, diagrams, and design rubrics. Also this is a no-nonsense approach, Art is not trying to sell you anything, if your house, habits, or climate is not appropriate the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		2009 International Plumbing Code: Softcover Version from ICC (distributed by Cengage Learning) Price: $61.99 Customer Review: Ordered the set for work. This is the least expensive price I found and free shipping.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		The Septic Systems Owners' Manual from Shelter Publications Price: $10.00 Customer Review: LLoyd Kahn has been a source of valuable information on in what and how people live. This volume is no exception. The book demystifies the workings of single household waste disposal, provides do's and don'ts, discusses cutting edge technologies and alternatives, with a '70s california new age vibe.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Plumbing: An Illustrated Guide to the Plumbing Codes (Code Check Plumbing: A Field Guide to the Plumbing Codes) from Taunton Press Price: $5.75 Customer Review: This book has all the required code information I was looking for. It has very clear illustrations that show what the codes state. I am very sastisfied with the book. I am glade I purchased it. "A must" for anyone that is not a plumber and wants to do there own work. A+++++ rated by me.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		2006 International Plumbing Code: Softcover Version from ICC (distributed by Cengage Learning) Price: $54.21 Customer Review: The book came on time and was in outstanding codition! I will weork with this company again!!	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		For Pros by Pros Remodel Plumb from Taunton Press Price: $16.05 Customer Review: I've been reading all the books on plumbing. Whether you are remodeling or not, this is absolutely the best book I've read - full of tips, accurate, and up-to-date.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Audel Pipefitter's and Welder's Pocket Manual from Audel Price: $8.33 Customer Review: very informative little book, lots of knowledge and tips in a small package, this as well as all of audel's books are worth buying and keeping for a lifetime.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		2009 International Plumbing Codes Handbook from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $38.44 Customer Review: It is very easy to understand and it explains very clear the most confussing aspect of plumbing codes. What you don't understand from other explanation codes, check with this book and it will clarify it for you. For example, the vent system is very well explained, also the handicap's requirements... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Pipefitters Handbook from Industrial Press, Inc. Price: $19.09 Customer Review: The material is from a bygone era. I had hoped for tables of currently available sizes and style variations for standard parts like flanges, weldolets, reducers, and large-radius bends. what i did find were lots of tables of use to the pipefitter who is making fittings and joints "from... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Audel Questions and Answers for Plumbers' Examinations from Audel Price: $15.55 Customer Review: This book will help every student to pass the examination due to it posts most of the question that have appeared in previous examinations but explained in detail. Every plumbing student should acquire this book. It is very helpfull due to it covers most of the aspects of the plumbing trade that... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Plumber's licensing Study Guide from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $21.37 Customer Review: This book won't be used till winter so can't review at this time. Thank you Should be able to enter ? or 0 on your scale if necessary	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Plumbing (For Pros By Pros) from Taunton Press Price: $5.00 Customer Review: I read some of the reviews below and was surprised. I liked this book a lot. This book contains everything you will need for most common, and some not-so-common problems you will encounter while plumbing. A review below talks about that there is nothing about Septic and leach lines.... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Pipe Fitter's Math Guide from Construction Trades Press Price: $13.86 Customer Review: I bought it for my boyfriend going to school for Plumbing Apprentice. Not only did he love it, his buddies are now asking where I got it! Great purchase.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Wells and Septic Systems from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $11.44 Customer Review: The book is more like a textbook for engineering than a homeowner guide; keep on looking...	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Mathematics for Plumbers and Pipefitters from Delmar Cengage Learning Price: $62.89 Customer Review: Great book. Learned alot from it. A must read and study, for anyone wanting to get into plumbing..	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Plumber's Exam Preparation Guide from Craftsman Book Company Price: $21.99 Customer Review: Like the other reviewers, I lie awake at night, wondering about Howard Massey. I envision him agonizing over rewriting classic sections such as his paen to brazing copper, perhaps clickity-clack typing on an old Underwood. Or perhaps he will have the courage to leave well enough alone, like the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Plumbing 1-2-3 (Home Depot ... 1-2-3) from The Home Depot Price: $5.20 Customer Review: The book is quite useful, practical, and easy to use/understand. More than anything I would like to point out the seller [...] as being one of the few sellers that care about the product and the buyer. I have purchased many books from amazon (trying to save $), and only to have the book arrive in a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Ultimate Guide: Plumbing, 3rd edition from Creative Homeowner Price: $10.95	Click here for more information


22.		2006 International Plumbing Code: Code & Commentary (International Plumbing Code Commentary) from ICC (distributed by Cengage Learning) Price: $74.99 Customer Review: The commentaries restate and expand on the codes in "real english", which is the language I think and problem solve with. I remember when a former employer cleared up my lack of clarity on the seeming lawyerese language in the definition of vent stack and stack vent. He clarified it all with a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization from Atria Price: $5.73 Customer Review: I was hoping to learn more about the history of plumbing--sewage disposal, water supply, rainwater control, and the resulting societal impacts. Instead, the book is 10% content, fluffed with 90% filler to extend into a sellable length "book". Unlike some really good "point history" books such as... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Plumbing a House from Taunton Price: $144.81 Customer Review: I needed this book to help figure out a complex venting issue and it served the purpose well. Allowed me to avoid hiring a plumber at considerable expense. Would recommmend.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Plumber's Handbook from Craftsman Book Company Price: $27.65 Customer Review: This is a great book if you need theory, plumbing codes, etc. If you want to know how to make your new p-trap fit your old p-trap, then you will be very disappointed. No DIY tricks here. No inside secrets on parts compatibility and replacements. This book is just hard core plumbing design and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.	[no image]	Estimator's Piping Man-hour Manual from Gulf Publishing Co ,U.S. Customer Review: This book is still the benchmark manual for accurate man-hour takeoffs in the piping industry and the only improvement will be when it is published in a metric measurement version as well as this Imperial measurement standard. This manual is used in places other than the USA and the rest of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Plumbing: A Field Guide to the Plumbing Codes (Code Check Plumbing: A Field Guide to the Plumbing Codes) from Taunton Press Price: $7.99 Customer Review: Easy to use, very practical stuff. Gets right to the heart of the matter. I am a professional and use the Code Check books often.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		DEWALT Plumbing Professional Reference (Dewalt Trade Reference Series) from DEWALT Price: $13.05 Customer Review: I'm not very happy with this book. It has alot of useful info but also ALOT of useless info. Way too much excavating information for plumbing book. It doesnt even have information like commong rough-in measurements for fixtures, etc. Overall not very useful for the plumber to keep in the truck or in... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		DEWALT Plumbing Licensing Exam Guide: Based on the 2006 International Plumbing Code (Dewalt Exam/Certification Series) from DEWALT Price: $25.66 Customer Review: Currently Plumbing. This book is fine if you already know what you're doing. This book and CD-Rom(test) are bland and boring for lack of a better description as the details are wasted in long, long paragraphs. A few examples even grab numbers from thin air on the math portion. For this being a... more info	Customer Rating: 1.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		Design of Piping Systems from Martino Fine Books Price: $31.50	Click here for more information

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