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BEFORE & AFTER -

HOUSE PLANS - ROOF SLOPE SCHEDULE

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BEFORE

Working your way through a big house plan set requires the help of the house plan set designer.  Before The Architect tries hard to make sure that really key elements of design and construction get stated in more than one way and in more than one place.  This house plan roof schedule was such a one way-one place opportunity.

In a lofty and complex 40+ page house plan set, you can get things out of perspective - sort of like these guys just might befall them -

Most unusual.  These two guys' away up there.  A house plan roof slope schedule

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AFTER

This house plan roof involved dozens of planes, a whole bunch of pitches, and was certain to be hand-framed.  Before The Architect elevations and the roof plan itself offered guidance one way and another on how to set the roof pitches.  Since the designer designed them, it'd be a no-brainer . . . for the designer.  But this designer wasn't going to frame that roof.  Somebody else was to run the crew to frame that roof - somebody with whom the house plan set designer could likely only communicate via the house plan set.

 So, the designer decided - one mo' time.   (Now, don't let all the abbreviations mess you up.  For this schedule in this website, they're  not important.  What is important is that when matters of design and construction get complicated, easily misunderstood, are unusual in one or more ways, then a schedule of the elements involved is another excellent means to raise the attention level and remake the conditions in a new perspective.  Good house plan set designers do this.  That's Before The Architect.

  AFTER, HOUSE PLAN DETAIL - ROOF SLOPE SCHEDULE, in PDF

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