Product Description

Plumbing: Mechanical Services Book One, is an essential guide to the core plumbing principles and processes. This fifth edition includes the new regulations on heat-raising appliances and updates on relevant environmental issues and sanitation.

This is a key course text for:

• Plumbing NVQs Levels 2 & 3
• Heating & Ventilation NVQs Levels 2 & 3

Suitable for:

• Technical Certificates in Plumbing Levels 1 & 2.
• Domestic Heating courses, gas, oil, unvented hot water systems and lead sheet options connected with these courses.
• Professional building courses covering general aspects of plumbing

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21244 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 347 pages

Review
' The author deserves all credit for his endeavours.'
Teaching and Plumbing (of the Second Edition)

From the Back Cover
'The author deserves all credit for his endeavours ...'
Teaching and Plumbing (on the 2nd edition)
First published in 1982, Plumbing- Mechanical Services is well-established as an essential guide for all students who require a sound understanding of plumbing principles and processes.
Updated and revised to meet the new NVQ plumbing requirements, the third edition includes new material on gas work, oil supply boilers, electrical work and above ground sanitary pipework and appliances. The two-volume set uses both traditional and practical applications of the subject to enable the reader to obtain the skills required to become a successful plumber.
Features
- fully revised to cover NVQ level 3 plumbing technology requirements
- updated with the latest British Standards and regulations
- reinforces understanding through self-test questions
- includes assignments in the style of the NVQ assessments papers produced by the British Plumbing Employers Council
- maps the text of both books to the NVQ plumbing units
This book is a key course text for NVQ mechanical engineering services- plumbing level 2 (C&G 6009). It is also useful supplementary reading for NVQ level 3 gas services installation and maintenance (C&G 6006), mechanical engineering services- heating and ventilation (C&G 6008), plumbing craft (C&G 6030) and heating and ventilation fitting craft (C&G 6040).
G. J. Blower has many years' experience as a plumber and as a teacher of plumbing. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Plumbing at the College of North East London as well as a City & Guilds examiner and an assessor for the London and South East Regional Advisory Council. He is currently visiting Lecturer at Barking College and the Colchester Institute.

About the Author
G. J. Blower has had many years' experience both as a plumber and as a teacher of plumbing. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Plumbing at the College of North-East London as well as a City & Guilds Examiner and an assessor for the London and South-East Regional Advisory Council.

Customer Reviews

Read Book One First
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!

Better than some.
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.

excelleant aid to my course
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.