HOME BUILDING PLANS
BEFORE & AFTER
HOUSE PLAN DETAIL - DOOR SCHEDULE
There are things you learn in going-on 4 decades of house design and house construction. Skepticism. Job-site reality. The overwhelming importance and influence of superior knowledge and experience. The vital values in unhurried consideration of a house plan. Recognition that you'll never know it all. AG 'o5
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BEFORE
Here’s the Before The Architect’s opinion of reasonable representation of the other guys’ house plan door schedule, and there usually is such a schedule and it can easily look like this:
BEFORE, HOUSE PLAN DETAIL - DOOR SCHEDULE, in PDF
Sweet. Simple. Stupid.
We know almost nothing about any of the doors to our house. 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) drafted for a Before The Architect’s house plan set:
AFTER, HOUSE PLAN 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 house and lock jamb side as cross-checks |
| Itemized comments about appointments, locking, self-closing, etc. |
Of unusual interest herewith is -
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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. |
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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 details doorways are similarly configured in terms of fold line and rise. Just think for a moment about how this house 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 house plan door schedule here for the first time.
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