Door Schedule

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HOME PLAN DOOR SCHEDULE
By Before The Architect Copyright 2003-2007

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hOME PLAN dOOR SCHEDULE

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INTRODUCTION

Home plan detail of door plans and window plans demands close attention and a lot of specifics. This e-article is about home door plan details.

HOME DOOR PLAN DETAILS

You just have to home plan detail all this and sometimes more than all this to make it clear about door plans

What owners need to have

Where they need to have it

How they need to installed

Expect lots of information from this home plan schedule of details, too

A code for cross reference to

Home interior and exterior elevations

Home floor plans

Number of doors

Of a type

On a level, etc.

Taking care to distinguish units of doors, say, a double-door pair from the two individual, constituent slabs

Style or form

	Single-swing
	Double
	Pocket
	Bypass
	Bifold
	Cased
	Smooth
	Patterned
	Callout

Dimensions in feet and inches and not to rough opening as it is (usually) with windows

Comment: If the door callout is 3068, the door is 3 linear feet-0 linear inches wide and 6 linear feet-8 linear inches tall. (If the window callout is 3068, the window is 30 linear inches wide and 68 linear inches tall.)

Door Plan, Illustrated Hand and Swing

Rough or masonry opening in feet and inches

Note that these leeways vary

	Between types of doors
	Between carpenters

Comment: This home designer has noted from time to time that some other designers include facsimile drawings of door styles either as part of or the entirety of a Door Schedule with key codes for cross-reference to floor plans, etc. Before The Architect hasn’t done this to date; clients so far have chosen their own door styles.

Type of door slab, e.g., colonial raised panel, flush, etc.

Level on which the door is set

Between what 2 spaces the door goes

Material of the door – hollow, solid, steel, etc.

Interior or exterior

Axis relative to house faces, e.g., FOH-BOH, LOH-ROH

To what space the door swings, if it does swing

	This designation can get mired in misery between left-hand and right-hand
	Either graphically specify what you mean by left-hand and right-hand and in- and out-swing, or
	Much better yet, define to which space a door swings and which house direction, e.g., BOH for Back Of House or compass orientation, is either the lock jamb, leaving it to the door pros to work it out on their own terms

Door Plan, Texted Hand and Swing

Key: APX = approximately; CLG = ceiling; CO = cased opening; C/O = callout; EXT = exterior; FR = fire-rated; LJ = lock jamb; PD = pocket door; SS = single-swing; TSM = transom; W = width; WL = wall

	Lock jamb face relative to house face
	Wall depth whereat the door will be set

Comment: There’s no telling how screwed up door orders can get when the other guy doesn’t get hand and swing right. Of significant importance in this regard is the direction of travel: don’t detail that direction and you can get whatever. Once upon a time, this custom home designer specified hand and swing incorrectly for every one of a couple dozen interior doors in a major rehab. Every one. It’s a dangerous world. Not all contractors, subs, and suppliers will check through your specifications, comparing your door plan for your floor plan.

Comment: Please note the redundancy in these itemized details. Redundancy is your friend – doesn’t matter whether you’re the owner, builder, or designer.

Special notes, e.g.,

	Fire-rating
	Self-closing
	Self-latching
	French
	Finish
	Adaptable
	Swing-away hinges
	Pocket door adaptation
	Special order of wood, glaze, boring, hinging, etc.
	Transom
	If arched, whether or not flattened,
	Include major and minor axes
	Sidelites
	Arched, whether Roman, Gothic, etc.
	Include minor axis
	Include spring line
	Security measures
	To impede drilling
	To impede carding
	To protect hinge pins
	Etc.

Comment: Centerlines on home floor plans serve door siting best, as with home windows and interior walls.

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