Excerpt from Lectures to Plumbers According to a promise made in the preface to the first series of these lectures, and also to many private correspondents, this volume is now issued. The Author's aim is not to preach any new doctrine but to deal with details Of every-day practice, many of which are not thought of by most writers on plumbing, or are considered as being too small and trivial to be worth consideration. The successful man is the one who studies details, and it is the attention paid to small matters that either makes or mars a job in plumbers' work. Being a good lead-bosser or a good joint-wiper is not nearly sufficient Many such men make serious mistakes owing to their lack of knowledge of first principles. Quite recently a large college was inspected and a report made by the Author as to the sanitary conditions. Amongst the many defects discovered were about twelve wash-basins with the overflow pipes connected to the waste pipes on the wrong sides of the traps; and yet the joints and the bends in the pipes were made as well as they possibly could be. It is not necessary to here dwell upon other such mistakes made in the execution of plumbers' work, as numbers of cases are referred to in the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.