Plumber's and Pipe Fitter's Calculations Manual

• Full coverage of estimating takeoffs
• Job-simplifying Fast Code Facts
• Sensible Shortcut tip boxes
• Great for designing and estimating projects
• Ready-to-Run Solutions for Plumbing and Pipefitting

Instant results: Packed with charts and tables that allow readers to quickly look up time-saving answers, this handy tool is a ready source of commonly used calculations, formulas, and, best of all, solutions.

In addition to easy-to-find answers, this guide delivers:

• A concise outline of trade mathematics
• Plastic and copper pipe and copper tubing facts and figures
• Standard and handicapped fixture layouts
• Guidelines for sizing water heaters
• Potable water standards
• Equipment weight load standards
• Friction tables
• Relevant electrical factors

For designing and estimating projects, this manual will prove to be invaluable. A great productivity booster, it will assist in delivering prompt, on-target, and even on-the-spot estimates.

Look-It-Up Calculations for:

• Pipe fitting
• Fabrication and layout
• Fixture-units
• Vent systems
• Drains and sewers
• Combination waste and vent systems
• Piping offsets
• Thermal efficiency...and more!

Table of Contents

• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1: General Trade Mathematics
• Chapter 2: Formulas for Pipe Fitters
• Chapter 3: Potable Water Systems Calculations
• Chapter 4: Drain-And-Sewer Calculations
• Chapter 5: Vent System Calculations
• Chapter 6: Storm-Water CalculationsChapter 7: Sizing Water Heaters
• Chapter 8: Water Pumps
• Chapter 9: Calculating Minimum Plumbing Facilities
• Chapter 10: Calculating Proper Fixture Spacing and Placement
• Chapter 11: Math for Materials
• Chapter 12: Troubleshooting
• Chapter 13: Plumbing Code Considerations
• Chapter 14: Septic Considerations
• APPENDIX 1: NATIONAL RAINFALL STATISTICS
• INDEX

About the Author

R. Dodge Woodson is a Master Plumber with almost 30 years' experience in the construction field, 21 of them as a self-employed plumbing contractor. The author of numerous McGraw-Hill best-sellers, including Plumbing: Tips, Data, and Rules of Thumb, he has taught plumbing code classes and apprenticeship classes at Central Maine Technical College. As a consultant, Woodson works with a number of plumbing contractors and has frequently been interviewed on the radio on plumbing subjects. He lives in Maine.