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 PLAN COVER SHEET, in PDF
It’s simple and straightforward, and if you didn’t know what you don’t know about home plan 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 plan 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, HOME PLAN COVER SHEET, in PDF
Big dif. Big home plan set. All the better to build with.
Home plan 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 home plan set segment runs to 8 or 9 sheets, but this one plan set was stretched out to let individual trades - e.g., foundation contractors, framers, electricians, etc. – get their own sheets of specifications).
9 sheets of house plan Details – tables (defined subsequently) and 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 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 Foundation plan, especially for the 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 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, lighting 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 plan set and that a specific building code is recognized in the plan set's construct.
That's a lot of home plan.
That's Before The Architect.
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