Hi hj. It's been a while. Not looking for a flame ware here, like I used to have with JW. Just looking for a more direct path than just the raw code books, but not some random book by Bob Villa. There a a couple of books by Francis D. K. Ching that look interesting. Anybody like those?
Over the years, I did a fair amount of plumbing (for myself). It worked well, and there were never any problems. Then times and places changed and I grew up and decided to get permits and learn the UPC. I can now do plumbing that would probably get by hj and Terry. Does that make me an expert like you guys? No. But, it is enough for me to work within the limited scope of what I know I know. If I had heard about the UPC illustrated training manual, it would have been a whole lot less painful.
My next big project brings up the same issue. Time to "learn" framing and such. I've worked along side people who knew what they were doing (and some who didn't), and have done a couple of buildings all by myself. Even passed a few inspections recently. Never any problems. OK, time to learn more codes and do some cool bleeding edge stuff... permits, engineers, reviews, hard work, and inspections. This is my retirement ... for fun.
Any help with learning resources would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers...
