Here's your opportunity to get all the details on the recently updated California codes for building, plumbing, HVAC, and electrical.

Code Check for California provides you with the most up-to date changes in the California code -- presented in clear, straightforward language, reinforced by user-friendly illustrations.

It's a great way to make sure every detail is right the first time -- saving you time, money and the frustration of redoing completed work.

Designed in flip-chart format for on-site use, this laminated, spiral-bound guide can stand up to any weather conditions. So you can count on it surviving from job to job -- until the next generation of code changes come around.

Here are a few reasons why you should order your copy today:

• Answers hundreds of code questions clearly and completely
• Accurate information helps you complete jobs more quickly -- and more profitably
• Covers everything from planning and permits to foundations and framing, to fixtures and furnaces -- plus much more
• Compiled by certified building instructors
• Expected to be in effect through 2010

About the experts who bring you Code Check for California
Douglas Hansen is a general contractor and certified combination inspector with over 30 years of field experience. Redwood Kardon, who devised and wrote the first Code Check, is a former electrician and inspector for the city of Oakland, California. Both present seminars and classes nationwide on a wide variety of building topics. Paddy Morrissey, former senior illustrator of cornerhardware.com, has been the sole illustrator for the Code Check series since its inception.

California adopts a new suite of codes every three years, but the cycle that would normally have taken place in 2004 was postponed except for the 2004 Electrical Code. As a result, the 2007 California codes are the first since the 2001 edition. These codes are based on the model codes shown in Table 1. California amends each of these codes and publishes them as a suite of codes collectively known as Title 24. The new codes took effect on January 1, 2008, and are expected to have a 3-year life. The energy code is on a slightly different cycle. The 2005 California Energy Code became part of the 2007 California Codes, and a new energy code will come out before the next cycle of the other codes.

Code Check for California is a field guide that is specific to California and the time period of 2008 through 2010. We have emphasized the significant changes, and these are also summarized on the final two pages of the book. This book is highly condensed; it does not address accessibility issues. It is limited to R-3 occupancies (one- & two-family dwellings & townhouses), and to the interior of R-2 occupancies (timeshares, apartments, & condos). The building section of this book deals with conventional framing. In Seismic Design Category D such framing is limited to two stories for one- & two-family dwellings and to single-story townhouses and other structures. Buildings that are beyond those limits require an engineer's concurrence, as is common with most California house plans.