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The complete guide to residential heating.
If you're looking for a complete, all-in-one source of reliable home heating information, you can stop right here. The Heating Handbook is an indispensable, task-simplifying guide that gives you expert help with every aspect of efficiently heating homes - whether it's selecting the right equipment and keeping it running smoothly, or tackling commonly encountered problems with heat pumps and boilers. This book is perfect for contractors who want to advise customers, plan systems, estimate costs, or bid on a variety of jobs.
This A-to-Z technician's guide helps you:
- Install
- Maintain
- Troubleshoot
- Repair
- Select
- Bid
- Design
- and more
- Today's most complete guide to the design, installation, maintenance, operation, and repair of residential heating systems.
- Covers everything from basic heat pumps to solar heating.
- Estimates installation and repair costs.
- Troubleshooting tips and techniques.
- Covers important geographic installation factors.
From the Introduction
Heating systems can be complicated to work with. Even trained technicians run into situations that give them trouble. Someone who is highly skilled at working with heat pumps may be at a loss for what to do when faced with an oil-fired boiler. Bring a coal-fired heating system into the mix and you might have mass confusion. There are many types of heating systems in use, and keeping up to date on all of them is not a simple task. However, this book will make the job faster, easier and even enjoyable.
Heat pumps, gas-fired boilers, oil-fired boilers, wood-fired heating systems, coal-fired heating systems, and even solar heating systems are all discussed in the following pages. In this single resource you will find answers to most heating questions, as well as installation tips, general descriptions and advice, and a lot of troubleshooting data that will save you both time and money.
Written by an experienced tradesman and author for people in the trades, this handbook is both comprehensive and easy to understand. You will find the text to be informative, reader-friendly, accurate, and presented in a real-world style. The illustrations placed liberally throughout the pages make it easy to visualize what is being described. Don't let this book's size intimidate you. The chapters are broken down by specific topics on particular types of heating systems. A quick perusal of the Contents or Index will put you right where you want to be - in a hurry.
The troubleshooting sections are true time-savers. Whether you are in business for yourself, working for an employer, or a homeowner with a problem, you will appreciate the speed with which you can pinpoint potential problems in most any type of heating system. Saving time often means making more money.
Do customers sometimes ask for your advice about which type of heating system to install, for example, if an air-source heat pump is better than a water-source heat pump? Sometimes the answers can be difficult to come by. Not anymore. This valuable book includes plenty of suggestions that will help contractors meet their customers' needs. Being knowledgeable about several types of heating systems pays off whether you are a heating contractor, a builder, or a remodeling contractor. If your work involves heating systems in any way, you need the Heating Handbook.
Contents
Chapter 1: A Basic Overview of Heat Pumps. Chapter 2: Components of Heat Pumps. Chapter 3: Choosing the Right Heat Pumps for Your Job. Chapter 4: Installing an Air-Source Heat Pump. Chapter 5: Installing Ground-Water-Source and Closed-Loop Heat Pumps. Chapter 6: Troubleshooting Heat Pumps. Chapter 7: General Maintenance and Repair of Heat Pumps. Chapter 8: A Basic Overview of Modern Radiant Heat Sources. Chapter 9: Boilers. Chapter 10: Components for Heating Systems. Chapter 11: Hot-Water Radiant Heat. Chapter 12: Radiant Floor Heating Systems. Chapter 13: Troubleshooting Oil-Fired Boilers. Chapter 14: Troubleshooting Gas-Fired Boilers. Chapter 15: A Basic Overview of Forced Hot-Air Heat. Chapter 16: Forced Hot-Air Furnaces. Chapter 17: Installation of Ductwork. Chapter 18: Maintaining and Troubleshooting Oil-Fired Furnaces. Chapter 19: Maintaining and Troubleshooting Gas-Fired Furnaces. Chapter 20: A Basic Overview of Solar Heating Systems. Chapter 21: A Basic Overview of Wood-Fired Heating Systems. Chapter 22: Working with Coal-Fired Heating Systems.
About the Author
Chase Powers is one of America's favorite construction authorities. The author of the Builder's Guide to Change-of-Use Properties and Kitchens: A Professional's Illustrated Design and Remodeling Guide, Powers has been a contractor for more than 20 years. He runs a plumbing, heating and home construction business that builds approximately 60 single-family residences a year. |
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