Code Check Complete: An Illustrated Guide to the Building, Plumbing, Mechanical and Electrical Codes - Softcover

Kardon, Redwood; Hansen, Douglas; Casey, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156158911X ISBN 13: 9781561589111

Publisher: Taunton Press, 2007

Synopsis

Taunton's Code Check series is widely recognized as the most reliable and up-to-date code reference available. Now, the thousands of builders, remodelers, and inspectors who have relied on their Code Checks for accuracy and thoroughness will delight in this handsome new edition that combines all the codes into a single, lay-flat volume. This comprehensive manual spotlights the safety issues behind all the codes. Up-to-date and featuring more than 400 illustrations, Code Check Complete is cross-referenced to the International Residential Code, Uniform Plumbing Code, Uniform Mechanical Code, and the National Electrical Code. It is the only resource any builder or inspector needs to be completely up to code.

About this title

About the Authors

Redwood Kardon, who devised and wrote the first Code Check, is a former electrician and building inspector for the city of Oakland, CA. Coauthor Douglas Hansen is a general contractor and certified combination inspector with over 25 years of field experience. Skip Walker is a certified residential combination inspector, with a particular interest in smoke alarm performance issues and deck safety. The authors present seminars and classes nationwide on a wide variety of building topics. Paddy Morrissey, former senior illustrator of CornerHardware.com, has been the sole illustrator for the Code Check series since its inception.

Douglas Hansen lives in Palo Alto, CA.

Michael Casey was born in 1947 in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was drafted into the U.S. Army and served as a military policeman in Vietnam. Among his books of poems are MILLRAT (Adastra Press, 1999), The Million Dollar Hole (Orchises, 2001), and Obscenities, which was chosen by Stanley Kunitz as the Yale Younger Poet Award for 1972 and reprinted by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2002. His most recent book is CHECK POINTS (Adastra Press, 2011).

Paddy Morrissey was senior illustrator for CornerHardware.com. All three live in the San Francisco Bay area.

Edition details

• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156158911X
• ISBN 13: 9781561589111
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Illustrator: Morrissey Paddy
• Number of pages: 240