All-in-one residential building and remodeling guide. Why slog through several scattered sources for the latest home building, remodeling and repair techniques when they're all crammed into one time-saving resource. With crystal-clear explanations, photos and drawings, Carpentry &amp; Construction, by Rex Miller, Glenn Baker, and Mark Miller shows you how to tackle every conceivable residential construction and remodeling job, large or small. Seasoned pros will find this an A-to-Z guide to building a new home from the ground up: *preparing the site or building floor, framing walls, erecting roof frames, installing windows and doors, covering roofs, putting in thermal insulation, preparing interior walls and ceilings, wiring the house, finishing the interior or building stairs, and more. You'll also get up to speed fast on the newest materials and equipment, and directions for working competently on such in-demand projects as solar heating and underground building. It's even a remodeling, maintenance and repair primer for do-it-yourselfers. With this ready reference, you can install skylights...craft custom cabinets or hang ready-built ones...lay ceramic tile...build decks and storage sheds....panel rooms...repair damaged drywall or a leaky roof, and much more, with the skill and confidence of a veteran craftsman.

Carpentry & Construction

Arts & Photography

Miller, Mark R.

Miller,Rex

Baker, Glenn E.

Architecture

McGraw-Hill Professional

Detailed Coverage of Every Step of the Construction Process    This heavily illustrated, all-in-one guide walks you through each step of construction in such detail that you can use it to build your own house!  Clear instructions along with 1,500 photos and illustrations thoroughly cover every stage of construction and remodeling, from planning and site preparation to interior finishing.    Great for do-it-yourselfers, professional house builders and contractors and students, this A-Z guide has all the task-simplifying details needed for each project, logically organized according to the stages of building--along with important safety precautions.  The authors even include valuable tips on buying a new home--what to look for and how to avoid costly mistakes.    Includes such diverse projects as:    * Kitchen and bathroom remodeling  * Installing solar heating  * Termite prevention  * Installing skylights  * Constructing fences, decks, and patios  * Framing walls  * Pouring concrete slabs  * Installing windows and doors  * Craft custom cabinets  * Panel rooms  * Repair damaged drywall  * Fix a leaky roof  * Lay ceramic tile  * and much more!    NEW TO THIS EDITION: latest tools and devices, new methods of utilizing wood in construction, new methods and materials, steel framing in residential work, and much more.

Carpentry and Construction

McGraw=Hill

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 Get the three “T’s” for Site selection, Footing choices, and foundation planning by letting the experts show you how to use proper tools, tips, techniques, and materials. The essential resource you need for people who want to build from the ground up Essential information taking the user beyond the three titles already available with IN THE HOUSE Information (Wiring the Home, Plumbing The Home, and Home Remodeling). For those who want to work ON THE HOUSE, starts from scratch like selecting the site or lot, choosing the footings, and the type of foundation to fit the type of house preferred or being plan. For people who want to build from the ground up, or at the same time, includes those who are still mentally planning to build. For those who want to figure how to repair certain things about the foundation, footing, and why the site is or is not suitable. From starting the job to completion, including real examples offered for nearly every application. Provides essential information needed to plan, manage and complete the job. Tip boxes included throughout.

Miller's Guide to Foundations and Sitework

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

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Master the Electric and Electronic Components that ControlToday's Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Systems!
 Electricity and Electronics for HVAC provides an expert account of the electric and electronic components used for modern air conditioning, heating, and refrigeration systems. Packed with hundreds of detailed illustrations, this in-depth reference fully explains circuits, diagrams, digital controls, safety procedures, troubleshooting, and more. 
Written by the renowned technical authors Rex Miller and Mark R. Miller, this essential resource covers all electrical and electronic principles and applications of HVAC, including basic electricity…electric measuring instruments…control devices…heating circuits…refrigeration and freezer circuits…and other topics. Designed to build knowledge, skills, and confidence, Electricity and Electronics for HVAC features:
<ul>
<li>Complete information on electric and electronic components for modern HVAC systems</li>
<li>Over 345 detailed illustrations to improve technical understanding</li>
<li>Standard and SI units for all problems and worked-out equations</li>
<li>A PowerPoint presentation for classroom use</li>
</ul>
Inside this Career-Building HVAC Tool• Introduction to Electricity • Current, Voltage, Resistance, and Power • Resistors, Color Code, Components, and Symbols • Series and Parallel Circuits • Magnetism, Solenoids, and Relays • Electric Measuring Instruments • Electric Power: DC and AC • Inductors, Inductive Reactance, and Transformers • Capacitors and Capacitive Reactance • Single and Three-Phase Power • Solid-State Controls • AC Motors • Electrical Safety • Control Devices • Heating Circuits • AC Circuits • Refrigeration and Freezer Circuits • Troubleshooting • Controlling Electric Power for AC Units oCareers in AC and Refrigeration • Index

Electricity and Electronics for HVAC

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.A Complete, Up-to-Date Guide to AC and Refrigeration
Fully revisited to cover the latest techniques, tools, refrigerants, and equipment, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Second Edition, provides a thorough introduction to the basic principles and practices of the AC and refrigeration industry. Step-by-step instructions, along with more than 800 photographs and illustrations, demonstrate efficient, cost-effective, and current methods for choosing, installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, servicing, and repairing today's cooling and climate control systems. Whether you're a do-it-yourselfer, a professional technician, or a student, you'll find the task-simplifying details you need for any project. Learn all about:
<ul>
<li>Tools, instruments, and specialized equipment</li>
<li>Development of refrigeration</li>
<li>Voltage, current, and resistance</li>
<li>Solenoids and valves</li>
<li>Electric motors</li>
<li>Refrigerants</li>
<li>Refrigeration compressors</li>
<li>Condensers, chillers, and cooling towers</li>
<li>Water-cooling problems</li>
<li>Evaporators</li>
<li>Refrigerant flow control</li>
<li>Servicing and safety</li>
<li>Freezers</li>
<li>Temperature, psychrometrics, and air control</li>
<li>Comfort air conditioning</li>
<li>Commercial air-conditioning systems</li>
<li>Various types of air conditioners and heat pumps</li>
<li>Estimating load and insulating pipes</li>
<li>Electrical power for air conditioners</li>
<li>Air-conditioning and refrigeration careers</li>
<li>New refrigerants</li>
<li>Electrical and electronic symbols used in schematics</li>
</ul>

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Second Edition

With an emphasis on troubleshooting, this up-to-date guide covers the basic concepts of motor control operation using practical applications and common practices. Topics covered include motor controllers and their theory, operation, installation and maintenance. The guide details the latest electromechanical and solid state devices, integrates close to 700 illustrations throughout detailing a variety of parts and techniques found in present day practice in the field, and emphasizes power distribution, tools, and on-the-job safety tips throughout.

Electric Motor Controls

Science & Math

Technology

Pearson College Div

Ugly’s Plumbing References is a quick, on-the-job resource specifically designed to provide plumbing professionals with the most commonly required information on installing plumbing piping, fixtures, and appliances in both commercial and residential buildings. This essential pocket guide includes diagrams, calculations, and quick explanations on how to select proper materials, tools, and equipment, as well as how to size sanitary drainage, vent, and water supply piping, calculate water demand, test and inspect plumbing systems, and much more. Unlike other plumbing pocket guides, Ugly’s incorporates invaluable information for license preparation, such as tips on studying plumbing systems, drawings, and the operation of typical systems, the latest tools and digital devices within the trade, and methods for handling the latest digital equipment. * Thorough coverage of pipes, fittings, fixtures, and appliances * Coverage of safe plumbing terms, codes and standards, and helpful abbreviations and symbols * Step-by-step overview of conversions and equivalents, fractions, angles, shapes, and forms * Special section on hand signals for hoisting and knots and

Ugly's Plumbing References

Jones& Bartlett Learning

This supplementary textbook for electrical engineering students will also prove enlightening to others who have an aptitude for working with electronic equipment. The authors present a complex subject in step-by-step fashion--literally guiding students through the easy way to understand electronics. This newly updated edition embraces the most recent developments in electronics. Opening with a chapter on the many available careers in the field, the authors continue with a review of the basic principles of electricity and electronics. Subsequent chapters explain semiconductors, audio amplifiers, stereo equipment, oscillators, transmitters, television, lasers and fiber optics, radar, computer hardware, and much more. The book is filled with informative line art and circuitry diagrams.

Electronics the Easy Way (Barron's Easy Series)

Barrons Educational Series

Describes careers in the electronics field, covers inductance, capacitance, resonance, direct current, semiconductors, and transmitters, and looks at stereo equipment, television, radio, lasers, radar, microwaves, and computers

Electronics the Easy Way

Barrons Educational Series. Inc.

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Books by Miller, Mark R.

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Carpentry & Construction

Carpentry and Construction

Miller's Guide to Foundations and Sitework

Electricity and Electronics for HVAC

Electricity and Electronics for HVAC

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Second Edition

Electric Motor Controls

Ugly's Plumbing References

Electronics the Easy Way (Barron's Easy Series)

Electronics the Easy Way