FINE HOME BUILDING PLANS - BEFORE & AFTER
HOME PLANS -
COVER SHEET
"Good home design lets you, bad home design makes you." AG
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If there is one at all, the other guys’ cover sheet could look more or less like this:
BEFORE, HOME PLANS COVER SHEET, in PDF
It’s simple and straightforward, and if you didn’t know what you don’t know about home plans set contents, you’d be a happy camper. You’d look at the fancy banner on the right-hand side of the cover sheet, a copyright statement, and get on with it.
What do you know? The plans set is 10 named sheets long. Thin bones. Scrawny.
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AFTER
Here’s a cover sheet recently prepared by Before The Architect:
AFTER, FINE HOME PLANS COVER SHEET, in PDF
Big dif. Big home plans set. All the better to build with.
Fine home plans sets from Before The Architect most often are large, running roughly 2-dozen sheets or more, sometimes twice that, or nearing 50 sheets even for the one Before The Architect's desktop as this webpage is being written.
What do you know?
14 sheets of Specifications (usually this dream home plans set segment runs to 8 or 9 sheets, but this one plans set was stretched out to let individual trades - e.g., foundation residential contractors, framers, electricians, etc. – get their own sheets of specifications).
9 sheets of house plans Details – tables (defined subsequently) and dream home drawing of isolated elements needing more description than otherwise permitted in broad-area home drawing.
5 sheets of Elevations – for a 4-sided home, Before The Architect added a 5th sheet to portray a large part of a dream home façade covered up by a detached garage – so one sheet of that home face with the garage and one without.
4 sheets of Foundation plans – (usually not so many on smaller homes) covering the home and garage separately, otherwise there was too much info to get on a single sheet without dropping the font’s point size to miniscule heights. You’ll see for yourself that this dream home Foundation plan, especially for the dream home itself, is complex and needs its own space. Additionally, Before The Architect suggests how this slab-on-grade L1 for both home and garage with breezeway might better be segmented for contraction joints.
2 sheets of Ceiling Plans that leave little to the finish carpenters’ imaginations, but leave some leeway for owner-craftsman on-site creativity.
1 sheet for Floor Framing, because there is only one floor to be framed in this slab-on-grade two-story. Here’s where suggestions can be passed to truss manufacturers and hand framers about evenly distributed and concentrated loads, about bearing walls, about special considerations of beaming and the like. (Virtually all of the floor and roof framing from Before The Architect goes to truss manufacturers these days – for floors on account of extensive clearspans, for roofs on account of owners’ preference to get on with home building and the dwindling number of real carpenter craftsmen capable of executing more complicated roof designs.)
2 sheets of Roof Plans – 1 each for home and for garage.
4 sheets of Electrical Plans, 1 each for the 2 levels of the dream home, 1 each for the garage main floor and for the garage attic utility area. You will be able to judge on your own later on about the extraordinary completeness of Before The Architect electrical plans, including critical spacing for luminaires, home light control for long-term safety, etc.
2 Whole-House sections. Generally standard fare.
Please take note, too, that Before The Architect alerts all that there's work to be done by others in re the plans set and that a specific building code is recognized in the plans set's construct.
That's a lot of home plans.
That's Before The Architect.
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