Heating Handbook (Paperback)

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Product Description
* 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 Back Cover
The Complete Guide to Residential Heating. This A-to-Z technician's guide helps you: Install, Maintain, Troubleshoot, Repair, Select, Bid, Design, and more. 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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (March 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070507198
• ISBN-13: 978-0070507197
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #244,511 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible, January 6, 2006

By	Scott (N.H.) - See all my reviews

The text seems like it was dictated into a word-processor, shuffled a little and printed with no editing and no research.
Portions of text are repeated exactly in different sections of the book. The tables and diagrams are reprinted from random product literature and have no relation to the text. The entire content relevant to home heating installation and maintenance could be compressed into a pamphlet.

Perhaps the team responsible for this book learned from the same school as those who prepared Saddam's perplexing weapons reports.

This is the worst textbook I have ever seen, and a waste of time.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Pratical handbook, August 15, 2005

A Kid's Review

This is a easy reading book good for someone who need a brief introduction to heating system. The book includes some installaion details which is useful but there are many tables and and product information which I find is not necessary. It is not expensive book to own if you want to have some idea about heating system.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not enough information, December 28, 2002

By A Customer

I too wanted information on tuning up my oil heater, and this book is worthless.
I did, however, pick up a copy of Forced Hot Air Furnace - Troubleshooting and Repair and was very impressed with the book. It told me everything I needed to know and them some about my oil heating system.
Bravo to Roger Vizi for an outstanding book on heating repair!!