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How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home Paperback – Illustrated, 29 June 2018

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The updated and highly illustrated guide to understanding how just about everything in your house works!

The revised and updated third edition of How Your House Works is a hands-on guide that gives you the low-down on why your faucet is leaking, your dishwasher is overflowing, or your furnace is on the fritz. This comprehensive book is your reference to virtually everything in your house with richly illustrated explanations of electrical systems, heating and air conditioning, plumbing, major household appliances, foundation, framing, doors, and windows. This must-have book answers most questions homeowners face when repairs are needed or when a new house or addition is in your future.

How Your House Works is filled with easy-to-understand illustrations that show how things should be put together and how they function. The book also highlights issues outside the house as well as clock thermostats, ventless gas heaters, moisture and mold, and passive solar heating. Using the illustrations and the author’s clear explanations might save you the expense of calling a professional. This invaluable guide: 

  • Offers a colorful resource to home electrical systems, HVAC, plumbing, major household appliances, foundation, framing, doors and windows, sustainability, and much more
  • Includes easy-to-follow information for troubleshooting problems
  • Contains dozens of new full-color illustrations
  • Presents new chapters on solar power and smart home technologies
  • Helps homeowners save money on many common household repairs

Written for homeowners with little or no knowledge of home maintenance or repair, How Your House Works is your illustrated and updated guide to understanding how appliances, electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and more work!

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CHARLIE WING, PD, is a nationally recognized authority on home building and remodeling, home repair, energy conservation and boating. He specializes in translating and illustrating technical information into easily understood layman's terms. He cofounded the nation's first two owner-builder schools, developed the first DOE-approved computerized home energy audit, and wrote and hosted the national PBS TV series, Housewarming with Charlie Wing.

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THE UPDATED AND HIGHLY ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING HOW JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING IN YOUR HOUSE WORKS!

The revised and updated third edition of How Your House Works is a hands-on guide that gives you the low-down on why your faucet is leaking, your dishwasher is overflowing, or your furnace is on the fritz. This comprehensive book is your reference to virtually everything in your house with richly illustrated explanations of smart home technologies, electrical systems, heating and air conditioning, plumbing, major household appliances, foundation, framing, doors, and windows. This must-have book answers most questions homeowners face when repairs are needed or when a new house or addition is in your future.

How Your House Works is filled with easy-to-understand illustrations that show how things should be put together and how they function. The book also highlights issues outside the house as well as clock thermostats, ventless gas heaters, moisture and mold, and passive solar heating. Using the illustrations and the author's clear explanations might save you the expense of calling a professional. This invaluable guide:

  • Offers a colorful resource to home electrical systems, HVAC, plumbing, major household appliances, foundation, framing, doors and windows, sustainability, and much more
  • Includes easy-to-follow information for troubleshooting problems
  • Contains dozens of new full-color illustrations
  • Presents new material on solar power and smart home technologies
  • Helps homeowners save money on many common household repairs

Written for homeowners with little or no knowledge of home maintenance or repair, How Your House Works is your illustrated and updated guide to understanding how appliances, electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and more work!

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ RSMeans; 3rd Edition, Expanded and Updated (29 June 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119467616
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1119467618
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.59 x 1.45 x 27.62 cm
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Charlie Wing, a nationally recognized authority on home building and remodeling, home repair, energy conservation and boating, specializes in translating and illustrating technical information into easily understood layman's terms. A PhD graduate of MIT, Principle Investigator in NASA's Apollo Lunar Program, and Physics Instructor at Bowdoin College, he cofounded the nation's first two owner-builder schools, developed the first DOE-approved computerized home energy audit, wrote and hosted the national PBS TV series, "Housewarming with Charlie Wing", appeared on over 400 radio and television shows about energy conservation, served as founding and technical editor for "Smart Homeowner Magazine" and has written and illustrated 30 books. He lives on the Coast of Maine.

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SAGESQ
5.0 out of 5 stars Instructive and Great Illustrations
Reviewed in the United States on 6 April 2024
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As a property adjuster, this comes in very helpful in learning what goes on behind each household system. Whether it’s plumbing or drywall or electric, this tells you how a house is put together and it’s great for the layman or professional alike.
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Surnder
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice. Recommend
Reviewed in Canada on 7 February 2024
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It's nice as shown in advertise here.
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Familia Pombalina
5.0 out of 5 stars Orientado exclusivamente al mercado americano, es una referencia ideal para usuarios de vivienda...
Reviewed in Spain on 11 December 2023
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Un libro interesante sobre varios conceptos básicos que todos deberíamos conocer en profundidad sobre nuestras casas, principalmente los usuarios finales, para entender como funcionan varias instalaciones o electrodomésticos.

Con un esquema muy sencillo y repetido en todo el libro, cada tema está dividido en unas especies de fichas, donde tenemos una ilustración grande a modo de diagrama con explicaciones de sus partes y de su funcionamiento básico.
Está dividido en 10 capítulos: fontanería, electricidad, calefacción, aire acondicionado, ventilación, electrodomésticos, ventanas y puertas, envolventes, equipamiento exterior y finalmente sistemas solares.

Aunque la división de los temas, el enfoque y sobre todo la selección de elementos no sea la más adecuada, ya que faltan algunas muy importantes y otras están obsoletas, es una obra perfecta para tener una visión integral sobre los servicios que nos aporta una vivienda.

Hay que tener en cuenta que es un libro escrito en inglés y orientado al mercado americano, así que gran parte de los elementos no existen en nuestro país, ni siquiera en otro país europeo, por ejemplo, el capítulo eléctrico puede tener cosas incompatibles con nuestra legislación, aunque aporta una explicación clara sobre el cableado.

En resumen, un libro técnico pero orientado al gran público, un tipo de manual que yo siempre hecho en falta en España, donde no tenemos nada similar que pueda aportar un poco de homogeneidad y una visión general… Teniendo este matiz en perspectiva, creo que puede ser una obra interesante para amantes del bricolaje, para comunidades de vecinos y también para estudiantes de secundaria que tengan curiosidad por las instalaciones, las reparaciones y también la arquitectura en general…
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Familia Pombalina
5.0 out of 5 stars Orientado exclusivamente al mercado americano, es una referencia ideal para usuarios de vivienda...
Reviewed in Spain on 11 December 2023
Un libro interesante sobre varios conceptos básicos que todos deberíamos conocer en profundidad sobre nuestras casas, principalmente los usuarios finales, para entender como funcionan varias instalaciones o electrodomésticos.

Con un esquema muy sencillo y repetido en todo el libro, cada tema está dividido en unas especies de fichas, donde tenemos una ilustración grande a modo de diagrama con explicaciones de sus partes y de su funcionamiento básico.
Está dividido en 10 capítulos: fontanería, electricidad, calefacción, aire acondicionado, ventilación, electrodomésticos, ventanas y puertas, envolventes, equipamiento exterior y finalmente sistemas solares.

Aunque la división de los temas, el enfoque y sobre todo la selección de elementos no sea la más adecuada, ya que faltan algunas muy importantes y otras están obsoletas, es una obra perfecta para tener una visión integral sobre los servicios que nos aporta una vivienda.

Hay que tener en cuenta que es un libro escrito en inglés y orientado al mercado americano, así que gran parte de los elementos no existen en nuestro país, ni siquiera en otro país europeo, por ejemplo, el capítulo eléctrico puede tener cosas incompatibles con nuestra legislación, aunque aporta una explicación clara sobre el cableado.

En resumen, un libro técnico pero orientado al gran público, un tipo de manual que yo siempre hecho en falta en España, donde no tenemos nada similar que pueda aportar un poco de homogeneidad y una visión general… Teniendo este matiz en perspectiva, creo que puede ser una obra interesante para amantes del bricolaje, para comunidades de vecinos y también para estudiantes de secundaria que tengan curiosidad por las instalaciones, las reparaciones y también la arquitectura en general…
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Mrs. B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for New Homeowners
Reviewed in the United States on 31 October 2023
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I got this for my daughter who just bought her own home. It explains things in the simplest of terms with lots of diagrams and images. This way, if she decided to fix things herself, she knows how they work. Or, if she hires someone, she has some basic background info that will help her to determine the honesty of some companies. Just a little knowledge can save you thousands. I definitely recommend this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dad wanted boys
Reviewed in Canada on 12 September 2023
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Been recommending this book to everyone!!!! Has helped me soooo much!
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