Customer Reviews

Print Reading for Construction with Print

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I have been teaching print reading for over 4 years, & this is my required text. Print Reading for Construction is written in a very plain English style and works very well in diverse classroom settings. In addition, this text provides a great deal of sample building plans for sharpening your skills.

This book shows all aspects of print reading. It can help take away the brain freeze many people get when they look at a set of prints for the first time. However, there is no better practice than to consistently read prints in the field, since many prints still are not written in the same formats and structure.

This material is great base material from which lesson plans can be built and allows me to safely recommend this book to building trade students for an introductory course that I will be giving this spring. The included drawing packet allows the students to work with real construction drawings instead of simple sketches that are not comprehensive enough for learning the overview required to interpret actual on the job drawings.

This is sold as a package in campus bookstores for college curriculum programs. The package includes a write-in workbook and a large folder with 116 prints for around $59.25. If you are going to need this for a class you better make sure both the book and prints are included in the purchase. Be sure what looks like a deal is not a waste of money and time.

No Spiral bound as advertised, a lot of folded drawings in a folder! No Book included like the one I used to have. same photo on Cover,
don't let that fool you, all you get is a lot of blueprints.
and NO Spiral Bound instructional book. or anything spiral bound!

My blue print book was fab, i recommend this company to my classmate and the price was reasonable. I received it on time. great company!

I have been in the field where I read blueprints all the time. There are a lot of words that are not defined in this book and had to rely on the internet to retrieve them. The blueprints that come along with this book are sometimes blurry and hard to read. This book is just OK to get an idea of how to read blueprints for the beginners in any mechanical or trade, but you will be searching for information as you come across it. It won't be in the book. There must be better ones out there.

Print Reading for Construction is actually a well written book with
effective definitions and drawings. However, it seams the books is sold new as a set. So if you buy used you may not get the Print supplement sheets or maybe not even the spiral bound book like another review mentions. Missing Vital information makes it pretty useless in the end.

When you purchase something, you buy with the intention of getting a whole product. Well, didn't happen in this case. The book was left out, only plans were sent.

I have ordered this book here once before and I have received a wrong book(it looks completely the same but the teacher's manual