BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – HOME DESIGNING BACKGROUND – UNIQUE HOME DESIGNING ARTICLES
HOME BUILDING TO-DO DOOR SCHEDULE
By Before The Architect  Copyright 2003-2007

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hOme building dOOR SCHEDULE

Sure, it's dulling, hard work - this Door Schedule biz - but it can pay big dividends -

INTRODUCTION TO HOME BUILDING TO-DO DOOR SCHEDULE

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.

	You just have to home plan detail all this  in to-do door schedule and sometimes do 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 building to-do door 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

	Rough or masonry opening in feet and inches
	Note that these leeways vary Between types of doors Between carpenters

	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

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

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

	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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