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HOME DESIGNER TERMS - HOME BUILDING TERMS
HOME PLANS ABBREVIATIONS
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You are, of course, free to visit the other part of the Home Plans Lexicon, the Dictionary.
The AG's Home Plan Lexicon includes about 400 abbreviations that can pack any home design drawing worth its salt. These abbreviations accomplish several ends —
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save loads of space so the references don't cover up the home drawing to which they refer |
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look cool (while being not especially hard to get the hang of and recall) |
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give the draftsman a chance to highlight or "float" the home drawing. |
When you put a lot of these abbreviations on a home drawing, it is good practice to send along a sheet identifying all the abbreviations you used. That sheet is appropriately identified as a "Key" or "Legend" or even simply "Abbreviations."
While several abbreviations include the same letters, they can have different meanings. Think about it. If you see EC along a wiggly line in a side yard, it is so much more likely Existing Contour rather than Empty Conduit. Duh.
The AG's abbreviations are organized alphabetically:
A; B; C; D; E; F; G-H; I-L; M-O; P-R; S; T-X
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