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2008 Dr. Watts Shirt Pocket Electrical Guide Description: This heavily constructed spiral-bound reference is filled with essential NEC tables, and the most-used basic electrical, voltage and transformer formulas, examples and illustrations that you can use on the job when you need it most. You`ll find NEC tables that include allowable ampacities, derating, burial depths, grounding, and wire-fill, as well as basic electrical, power, voltage and transformer formulas, examples depicting bending, transformer installations, branch circuits and GFCIs. All... Read More about the "2008 Dr. Watts Shirt Pocket Electrical Guide" on the Calculator Source Website

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Basic Engineering For Builders Description: If you`ve ever been stumped by an engineering problem on the job, yet wanted to avoid the expense of hiring a qualified engineer, you should have this book. Here you`ll find engineering principles explained in non-technical language and practical methods for applying them on the job. With the help of this book you`ll be able to understand engineering functions in the plans and how to meet the requirements, how to get permits issued without the help of an engineer, and anticipate requirements for... Read More about the "Basic Engineering For Builders" on the Calculator Source Website

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Basic Lumber Engineering For Builders Description: Beam and lumber requirements for many jobs aren??t always clear, especially with changing building codes and lumber products. Most of the time you rely on your own rules of thumb when figuring spans or lumber engineering. This book can help you fill the gap between what you can find in the building code span tables and what you need to pay a certified engineer to do. With its large, clear illustrations and examples, this book shows you how to figure stresses for pre-engineered wood or wood str... Read More about the "Basic Lumber Engineering For Builders" on the Calculator Source Website

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Basic Stairbuilding - Dvd Description: Master carpenter Scott Schuttner shows how to build two common staircases: a straight-run stair with plywood treads and risers (to be covered with carpeting), and an L-Shaped stair with house oak treads and risers. You`ll also learn how to: calculate the rise and run, lay out and cut stringers, position carriages, accommodate drywall and skirtboards, fasten risers and treads, make a newel post, and how to cut anchor balusters and a handrail.... Read More about the "Basic Stairbuilding - Dvd" on the Calculator Source Website

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Blueprint Reading For The Building Trades Description: How to read and understand construction documents, blueprints, and schedules. Includes layouts of structural, mechanical, HVAC and electrical drawings. Shows how to interpret sectional views, follow diagrams and schematics, and covers common problems with construction specifications. 192 pages, 5-1 - 2 x 8-1 - 2... Read More about the "Blueprint Reading For The Building Trades" on the Calculator Source Website

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Build Smarter With Alternative Materials Description: New building products are coming out almost every week. Some of them may become new standards, as sheetrock replaced lath and plaster some years ago. Others are little more than a gimmick. To write this manual, the author researched hundreds of products that have come on the market in recent years. The ones he describes in this book will do the job better, creating a superior, longer-lasting finished product, and in many cases also save you time and money. Some are made with recycled products ??... Read More about the "Build Smarter With Alternative Materials" on the Calculator Source Website

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Builder`s Guide To Drainage&retaining Walls Description: Creating an adequate drainage system is the critical first step in most construction projects. Retaining walls are integral to the design plan, when used to achieve level grade. These two topics are interrelated, and this book provides a complete introduction to doing both right. Here you??ll find the data you need on average rainfall and runoff requirements so you can figure gutters, downspouts and roof drainage, and install appropriate waterproofing and dampproofing in basements and crawlspac... Read More about the "Builder`s Guide To Drainage&retaining Walls" on the Calculator Source Website

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Builder`s Guide To Stucco Lath&plaster Description: Stucco is a durable, low-maintenance exterior surface widely used on homes throughout the world. This practical manual covers every aspect of stucco design, construction and repair. You??ll find techniques for attaching stucco to wood frames, steel frames, sheathed material, or masonry. Includes step-by-step instructions on how to install flashing, corner beads, casing beads, control joints, weather-resistant barriers, exterior insulation systems, and one-coat stucco systems. Shows the recomme... Read More about the "Builder`s Guide To Stucco Lath&plaster" on the Calculator Source Website

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Builder`s Guide To Swimming Pool Construction Description: Break into the lucrative swimming pool construction business with this practical how-to guide. Here you`ll learn how to get the permits and do the surveying, planning and layout for a typical pool, including how to read a soils report. You??ll read about the excavation, backfill, soil compaction, sand and gravel bedding and drainage requirements, and mechanical systems such as pumps, heaters, filters, skimmers, and solar systems. Covers underground piping, including drain, supply, and gas; and e... Read More about the "Builder`s Guide To Swimming Pool Construction" on the Calculator Source Website

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Building Decks - Dvd Description: Master carpenter Scott Schuttner shows how to build decks one simple, single-level deck that demonstrates the basic principles of deck construction; the other, a custom, wrap-around deck complete with stairs, planters and built-in seating. You`ll learn how to dig and pour footings, install leak-free ledgers, build framework that`s square and solid, lay decking efficiently, construct deck stairs, planters, and built-in seating, make a newel post, and apply finishes.... Read More about the "Building Decks - Dvd" on the Calculator Source Website

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Commercial Metal Stud Framing Description: Framing commercial jobs can be more lucrative than residential work. But most commercial jobs require some form of metal stud framing. This book teaches step-by-step, with hundreds of job site photos, high-speed metal stud framing in commercial construction. It describes the special tools you??ll need and how to use them effectively, and the material and equipment you`ll be working with. You??ll find the shortcuts, tips and tricks-of-the-trade that take most steel framers years on the job to dis... Read More about the "Commercial Metal Stud Framing" on the Calculator Source Website

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Construction Nightmares Third Edition Description: Our own mistakes make effective, though sometimes expensive lessons. Usually it`s safer to learn from the mistakes of others, and a lot less expensive. In this book you can read about the construction jobs from hell, and hopefully learn how to avoid them. Here you`ll earn how others dealt with busts in plans, extas, delays, interference, scheduling, extra work, change orders, defective construction, inadequate supervision, and incompetent contractors and subs.... Read More about the "Construction Nightmares Third Edition" on the Calculator Source Website

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