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How your house works : a visual guide to understanding & maintaining your home / Charlie Wing.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: RSMeansPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (xvi, 192 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118286074
  • 1118286073
  • 9781118287361
  • 1118287363
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: How your house works.DDC classification:
  • 643/.7 23
LOC classification:
  • TH4817 .W56 2012eb
Online resources: Summary: "An easy-to-understand richly illustrated guide to how everything in a house works. The book's many full-color illustrations are all drawn by the author for the general consumer to understand. Virtually everything in your house is included, with illustrated guidance on electrical systems, heating and air conditioning, plumbing, major household appliances, foundation, framing, doors, and windows. This updated second edition has considerable additional information, with new chapters related to sustainability and outside the house, as well as new topics including clock thermostats, ventless gas heaters, moisture and mold, and passive solar heating"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

"An easy-to-understand richly illustrated guide to how everything in a house works. The book's many full-color illustrations are all drawn by the author for the general consumer to understand. Virtually everything in your house is included, with illustrated guidance on electrical systems, heating and air conditioning, plumbing, major household appliances, foundation, framing, doors, and windows. This updated second edition has considerable additional information, with new chapters related to sustainability and outside the house, as well as new topics including clock thermostats, ventless gas heaters, moisture and mold, and passive solar heating"-- Provided by publisher.

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