Excerpt from Lawler's American Sanitary Plumbing: A Practical Work on the Best Methods of Modern Plumbing, Illustrating, With Original Sketches, the Fundamental Principles of Everything the Plumber Should Know More than one-half the mistakes that are made by men in every walk of life can be avoided if they will only take the advice of others who have had experience. Life is too short for each one of us to find out by actual experience how this, that, and the other thing works. And besides, if we wish to keep up with the improvements which are constantly going on in every line of trade, we will have no time to spare for experiments. Therefore I am induced, after a practical experience of more than twenty years at the plumbing trade, to write this book, feeling satisfied that it will be of much use to the plumber who wishes to have a good practical knowledge of his business, and who has not had as much experience as the author. 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.