College of Product Knowledge: Residential Faucets - Part I
This is an updated version of the product training course introduced by Supply House Times in 1979, authored by Don Arnold.
The College of Product Knowledge ran in Supply House Times for three years and resulted in a reprint manual that sold for many years to follow, totaling thousands of copies. It became something of an industry classic. Much of the original training material is still applicable to the products sold today - but there is also much in the wholesalers' product mix that is new since then. The purpose of this updated series is to look at what has come along since the first edition.
Here's what the common options in faucet valving look like today: