Did you know caulking around the toilet base and the floor can confine a water leak allowing it to enter the floor structure and damage it? Basic plumbing repair, maintenance procedures, and skills are required to properly maintain the fixtures used in public restrooms and commercial facilities. Some of the most common plumbing fixtures used in these buildings include; toilets, urinals, sinks, and the associated valves, traps, piping, and sealing components. This interactive online course covers the plumbing maintenance course covers the operation and maintenance of basic components used in water supply and drainage systems of households and commercial restrooms. The tools and techniques to perform these basic plumbing projects are presented. Procedures to perform basic repairs and replacement of various types of traps and valves are discussed and demonstrated using illustrations and photos.
W. Roger Wood is a semiretired engineer who worked for 35
years in the pulp and paper industry. Roger was born on a farm in rural Maine
and attended high school in Belfast, Maine. After high school, Roger attended
the University of Maine and graduated with a BS degree in Mechanical
Engineering.
After college, he went to work in a large Paper Mill in
Maine as a project engineer.His career
in pulp and paper included most of his years in the maintenance organization
working as a Maintenance Planner. Maintenance Manager, and Manager of
Engineering, Maintenance, and Utilities. After retiring from the pulp and paper
industry, he has been working on a part time basis as a technical writer,
Adjunct instructor at a small engineering college, and an instructor for a
nationwide training company teaching classes on operations and maintenance of
various types of mechanical equipment.
Roger’s expertise is in the area of rotating equipment such
as pumps, motors, mechanical drives, hydraulics and other equipment used in industrial
and commercial facilities. He has worked on projects developing training
materials targeting employees in pulp and paper and oil and gas industry.He has also done work as a lubrication
specialist for a supplier to the pulp and paper industry in Maine.
Roger is married with two daughters and four grandchildren.
He and his wife are gardeners that have extensive gardens on there property in
Orland, Maine. They are also antique buffs and run a seasonal antique business from
a shop adjacent to there home.
Roger is active in his local town and where he serves as
President of the Orland Historical Society, Treasurer of the Rising Sun #71
Masonic Lodge in Orland, member of the planning board in Orland, and volunteers
as a tour guide at the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor, Maine.
0.5 hr. Online Course