HOME BUILDING PLANS - BEFORE & AFTER

YOUR DREAM HOME PLANS DETAIL - DOOR SCHEDULE

There are things you learn in going-on 4 1/2 decades of home design and home building.  Skepticism. Job-site reality. The overwhelming importance and influence of superior knowledge and experience.  The vital values in unhurried consideration of a home plan.  Recognition that you'll never know it all.  AG 'o5

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Here’s the Before The Architect’s opinion of  reasonable representation of the other guys’ home plans door schedule, and there usually is such a schedule and it can easily look like this: 

  BEFORE, HOME PLANS DETAIL - DOOR SCHEDULE, in PDF 

 Sweet.  Simple.  Stupid.

We know almost nothing about any of the doors to our home.  Hand?  Swing?  How many?  Where?  What's the rough opening?  How high on our walls?  Sweet.  Simple.  Stupid.

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AFTER 

Here’s a Door Schedule recently (and only partially) drawn for a Before The Architect’s dream home plans set: 

  AFTER, DREAM HOME PLANS DOOR SCHEDULE, in PDF  

You just have to detail all this and sometimes more than all this to make it clear what owners need to have where they need to have it in re doors. 

        Code key for cross-referencing between this Detail sheet and at least appropriate elevations and the floor plans

        Number of units

        Callout of each type of unit – generic or proprietary

        Rough and masonry openings

        Type of unit

        Level on which it’s going to be installed

        From where and to where one travels space to space in order to be crystal clear about right-hand and left-hand and in-swing and out-swing

        The door’s hand and swing (or not)

        The door’s travel – single-swing, double, etc.

        The door’s material – widely variant

        The door’s style – generic, specific, special, etc.

        The door’s orientation to the home and lock jamb side as cross-checks

        Itemized comments about appointments, locking, self-closing, etc.

Of unusual interest herewith is -

The extent to which Before The Architect goes in identifying hand and swing.  What means right-hand and left-hand and in-swing and out-swing….you’ve no idea how screwed up door deliveries can get when the other guy doesn’t get this right.  Of significant importance in this regard is the direction of travel: don’t detail that direction and you can get whatever.

The inclusion not only of door slabs, but also portal passages without doors.  This inclusion particularly is to make sure that all the ellipse tops to these house plans details doorways are similarly configured in terms of fold line and rise.  Just think for a moment about how this home might turn out if you left the ellipse layouts to some framers and rockers.   

Plus there are –

        Notes to set standards for safety in hinge and locking installations

        Footnotes to closely define certain entries in the schedule, such as, callouts, and to closely define metrics of framed openings.

 You’ve very most likely to have seen this broad level of specificity in a home plans door schedule here for the first time.

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