Systems inside the walls — domestic wiring, circuit safety, pipework and heating, where mistakes are expensive.
9 topics · 16 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
Controlling Electrical Hazards
Occupational Safety and Health Administration · 2002
Argues that most electrical injuries come from a small set of recognisable hazards — energised equipment, wet conditions, damaged insulation — that…
+2 more at this level
Assumes you know the vocabulary.
House Drainage and Sanitary Plumbing
William Paul Gerhard · 1882
Treats household drainage as a public-health problem first and a construction problem second, arguing that bad drainage caused specific documented…
+10 more at this level
Primary sources and full treatments.
A Handbook of Electrical Testing
H. R. Kempe · 1876
Treats every kind of cable and line fault as locatable by measured resistance and current rather than by inspection, turning fault-finding from a…
+1 more at this level
12 of 16 works
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Argues that most electrical injuries come from a small set of recognisable hazards — energised equipment, wet conditions, damaged insulation — that lockout and grounding procedures are designed to remove.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Department of Energy
Explains why a solar water heater still needs a conventional backup and how the two systems are plumbed together, treating solar as a supplement to the water heater rather than a replacement for it.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Department of Energy
Argues that water heating is one of the largest controllable home energy costs, and that insulation, temperature setting and equipment choice each cut the bill independently of the others.
link checked 17 Sept 2026William Paul Gerhard
Treats household drainage as a public-health problem first and a construction problem second, arguing that bad drainage caused specific documented disease outbreaks rather than vague miasma.
link checked 17 Sept 2026S. Stevens Hellyer
Argues that a plumbing system's job is to keep sewer gas out of the house as much as to carry water, and designs traps and venting around that principle rather than around custom.
link checked 17 Sept 2026H. C. Cushing Jr.
Presents the fire underwriters' National Electrical Code as a set of enforceable minimums, arguing that wiring practice should follow the code's tables rather than an electrician's habit.
link checked 17 Sept 2026George B. Clow
Treats the wiped lead joint, made by hand-shaping molten solder around a pipe with a moleskin pad, as the test of a plumber's skill, and works through its geometry in enough step-by-step detail for an apprentice to reproduce it.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Thomas W. Poppe
Walks through residential wiring installation from service entrance to fixture, treating the National Electrical Code's rules as engineering reasons rather than arbitrary requirements.
National Bureau of Standards
Sets minimum plumbing practice as a public-health problem of protecting the water supply from contamination, deriving pipe sizing and venting rules from that one principle rather than trade custom.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Navy
A Seabee rate training manual covering wiring, generation and distribution as one deployable electrical trade, aimed at a builder who must install and maintain power from nothing.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Department of the Army & Department of the Air Force
Sets out plumbing system design as engineering calculation — pipe sizing, fixture units, venting — giving a modern quantified counterpart to Hellyer's largely descriptive Victorian treatise.
link failing as of 17 Sept 2026United States Navy
A Seabee rate training manual covering plumbing, water treatment, heating and fuel systems as the utilities half of the building trades, complementing the Construction Electrician manual's electrical half.
link checked 17 Sept 2026