How your house works : a visual guide to understanding and maintaining your home /
Wing, Charles.
How your house works : a visual guide to understanding and maintaining your home / Charles Wing - 2nd Edition. - New Jersey : John Wiley & Son, Inc., c2012 - xvi, 192 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Includes index.
Plumbing -- Wiring -- Heating -- Cooling -- Air quality -- Appliances -- Windows & doors -- Foundation & frame -- Outdoors -- Toward sustainability.
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, vent less gas heaters, moisture and mold, and passive solar heating.
9781118099407
DWELLINGS -- MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR
TH 4817 .W56 2012
How your house works : a visual guide to understanding and maintaining your home / Charles Wing - 2nd Edition. - New Jersey : John Wiley & Son, Inc., c2012 - xvi, 192 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Includes index.
Plumbing -- Wiring -- Heating -- Cooling -- Air quality -- Appliances -- Windows & doors -- Foundation & frame -- Outdoors -- Toward sustainability.
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, vent less gas heaters, moisture and mold, and passive solar heating.
9781118099407
DWELLINGS -- MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR
TH 4817 .W56 2012