BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – THE BIG PICTURES
RESIDENTIAL DRAWINGS – HOUSE ADDITION IDEAS, MAJOR ADDITION
"This could be the beginning of the end in construction to finger-pointing and hard feelings." AG 2002
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BREAKING NEWS: This came a couple days before Christmas from our B2B client for whom all the sheets to follow were done:
The county has the permit submittal right now. My expediter said that the permit inspector said that in his 12 years on the job he had never seen so complete a set of plans as you prepared. Kudos to the Autocad Granddad and Mrs. AG.
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This is a B2B arrangement with a builder about as careful and conservative as AG. He sketches the house addition ideas in the form of floor plans, .jpgs the existing house, we talk it over about what's to be done, and he cuts us loose knowing that if we need to know more, then he'll be there to help. He reviews and approves all the work.
This job of bringing house plan set life to house addition ideas started as a porch and garage plan set. Once it got really clear that the modular builders could not get it right for several different reasons, the AG was asked to pick up the pieces and do the whole addition.
These 17 sheets represent the full plan set prepared for this particular builder, based on his house addition ideas developed with his owner-client. Toward latter stages, we worked with an exceptional, in-state P.E. on matters of a tricky ledger or two and truss roof design (in the last analysis done by others).
Note well certain characteristics throughout this presentation of house addition ideas in house plans form:
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Lots of text. A trademark of ours. Some text explains, some describes, some directs. |
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Keys and Legends on a per-sheet basis. Few things get the old goat's old goat faster than a sheet smeared all over with abbreviations and symbols and no key to know what they are there for. Now most often, you can reckon it sooner or later. But design and construction were never intended as parlor games. |
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Dimensions and annotations on separate sheets (when things would have gotten cluttered up otherwise). The last the AG needs is confusion on the job site. |
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Electrical plans separate from the floor plans, with the floor plans as grayed background. The AG likes the electrical plans standalone, and not smooshed onto the floor plans which already are packed with info. |
Cover Sheet
Plan
Detail - 1 of 3
Plan
Detail - 2 of 3
Plan
Detail - 3 of 3
Elevations
- 1 of 2
Elevations
- 2 of 2
Floor Plan - Front Porch
Floor Plan - Crawlspace
Floor Plan - L1, Dimensioned
Floor Plan - L1, Annotated
Floor Plan - L2, Dimensioned
Floor Plan - L2, Annotated
Electrical Plan - L1
Electrical Plan - L2
Foundation Plan, Dimensioned
Foundation Plan, Annotated
Roof Plan
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