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Concrete Foundation Design - Spread Footing, Spot Footing -
 - Ralph Pressel (48,095)     
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about a concrete foundation spread footing
Identity
Design
Construction
Comment: Before The Architect (BTA) assumes that these footings as with all other footings are sited on substrates of reasonable bearing... ( added 1 year 203 days ago.) |
Concrete Foundation Design - Strip Footing Foundation, T-Wall Foundation Properties -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about designing a concrete foundation footing, which is a way of saying it's about designing t-wall foundation properties
More properly, this article is about a continuous, placed, reinforced concrete strip footing and the continuous, placed (or... ( added 1 year 207 days ago.) |
Interior Home Planning Reference Library - American Craftsman Style Home Interior Design -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about behind-the-scenes sources of information to design home plans, sort of like this custom home designer's private reference library relevant to a specific custom home design
Such reference libraries can be assembled for interior or exterior... ( added 1 year 218 days ago.) |
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Book Reviews Online - Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards 2Q08 -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is a book review about the e- book Home Design Standards Home Building Standards 2Q08 Edition
REVIEW
Q: What is this e-book all about?
A: How to better design a home and how to better build a home.
Q: How can you be so bold as to say "better"? ( added 1 year 223 days ago.) |
Custom Home Design Program Series – Roof Plan Design Pictures & Text -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about designing a custom home Roof Plan, including pictures and text
ROOF PLAN DESIGN PICTURES & TEXT
Comment: Nothing confuses and confounds more than a roof plan. In this custom home designer's opinion, if it's not drawn in 3 dimensions... ( added 1 year 226 days ago.) |
Home Foundation Design - Anchor Bolt Installation -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
Introduction
This e-article is about installing anchor bolts in designing a home foundation
Guidelines to follow are an accumulation and amalgam of the literature and work at the granite knee of life experience
Anchor Bolt Installation
For wood stud wall... ( added 1 year 228 days ago.) |
Home Foundation Design - Foundation Plan, Slab-On-Grade and T-Wall -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about designing a home foundation, specifically a foundation plan for slab-on-grade and t-wall placement
FOUNDATION PLAN Comment: From this custom home designer's vantage, the two most technically difficult custom home plan designs are the... ( added 1 year 228 days ago.) |
Home Plan Designs - Electrical Plan Design, Lighting Control Plan Design -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about Electrical Plan Design and Lighting Control Plan Design in designer home plans
Comment: Before The Architect designs an Electrical Plan along with a Lighting plan for each level of each custom home the firm works. The Electrical Plan is detailed... ( added 1 year 229 days ago.) |
Home Design Program Series - Home Floor Plan Designs -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
Introduction
This e-article is about how to layout home floor plan designs
Pics To Ponder
Comment: This custom home designer most often splits up really complex floor plan designs into 2 sheets, in order to keep down the clutter and potential confusion from a welter of dimension... ( added 1 year 232 days ago.) |
Custom Home Design Program Series - Home Elevation (Exterior) -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about designing a home elevation
It's part of Before The Architect's program series on custom home design . . . . .
ABOUT DESIGNING A HOME EXTERIOR ELEVATION
( added 1 year 234 days ago.) |
Custom Home Design - Site Plan Design -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
Introduction
This e-article is about a custom home design page of a home plan set how to design a Site Plan
Comment: Please note that there are plenty of other e-articles hereunder that present other aspects of a custom home design plan, including, among others
Overview - ( added 1 year 235 days ago.) |
Overview of Home Plan Designs – About a Realistic Home Plan Design Program -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is mostly about how not to go about developing a house plan and ways you can tell that you're in trouble. The point: avoid this stuff and you're advantaging successful home design program.
JUST A SAMPLING
( added 1 year 246 days ago.) |
Craftsman Style Custom Home Exterior Design Tutorial -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
Introduction
You, too, can design your own custom house, remodel, house renovation, house addition, or building plan change with characteristics of a Craftsman Style home, especially Craftsman Style home exteriors . Bob Vila and an army of others show you how to build. Now, you're going to... ( added 1 year 247 days ago.) |
Custom Home Foundation Design – Modified Grade Beam Design Detail -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This e-article extends others in the Searchwarp.com library regarding house foundation design and construction, now to include a modified grade beam design and construction. ( added 1 year 248 days ago.) |
Interior Design Ideas – Wood Trim Designs, Bringing a Craftsman Home Interior Together -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
This e-article is about an interior design idea that Before The Architect can pursue with clients: bringing a home interior together with wood trim designs.
Whereas, any interior style can benefit from this interior design idea, this custom home designer prefers to present Craftsman Style for... ( added 1 year 249 days ago.) |
Craftsman Style Interior Detail - Wainscot -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION Before The Architect added this Craftsman Style interior detail text on wainscot to a plan set's D5 [5th sheet of cross-referenced details], after recognizing that design guidance could be formative, and ought to be identified as responsibly and authentically as could be without... ( added 1 year 250 days ago.) |
Stone and Brick Masonry Watertables – Custom Home Design Tips -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
This e-article addresses watertables in context of both custom home design and construction.
DEFINITION ( IN EXTREMIS )
A watertable (this custom home designer's spelling preference; a/k/a: water table, water-table; offset, rarely) –
a horizontal, projecting, (usually of)... ( added 1 year 273 days ago.) |
Planning a Radon Mitigation System For a Custom Home – Radon Mitigation System Design and Construction -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This article addresses practical aspects of radon mitigation design and construction in a custom home plan.*
SETTING THE STAGE
Before The Architect (BTA) was chosen recently to develop a custom home plan, including a radon mitigation plan, for a to-be-built in Knoxville... ( added 1 year 273 days ago.) |
Stud Wall Design Standards -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
Almost everybody’s got ‘em – stud walls.
They’re the bones of almost all houses in the US . Building them is mostly regarded as commodity work.
Did you know that the design of wood stud walls can vary widely – to the benefit or bane of owners? ( added 2 years 130 days ago.) |
Home Lighting - Interior Design Case Study #3, Advanced Applications -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This is the third of three case study articles on the interior design of home lighting as uniquely presented in Before The Architect custom home plans
This advanced applications article may better be appreciated by first studying Home Lighting - Interior Design Case... ( added 2 years 133 days ago.) |
Home Lighting - Interior Design Case Study #2, Advanced Applications -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This is the second of three case study articles on the interior design of home lighting as uniquely presented in Before The Architect custom home plans.
This advanced applications article may better be appreciated by first studying Home Lighting - Interior Design... ( added 2 years 137 days ago.) |
Home Lighting - Interior Design Case Study #1, Basic Application -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This is the first of three case study articles on the interior design of home lighting as uniquely presented in Before The Architect custom home plans
This article starts up slow and easy
The other two articles crank it up in their address of two of the... ( added 2 years 141 days ago.) |
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Home Footing Drain, Slab Drain -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
Drainage from runoff and below-grade water poses primary concern for lots of folks
Loss of property and health get involved
This subject is fundamental to the safety of a home’s occupants
These guidelines present aspects for your consideration
( added 2 years 145 days ago.) |
Home Building – House Frame Work, Part 2 -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
INTRODUCTION
This article is the second of two about the fundamental materials and methods of house frame work in building a home
HOUSE FRAME WORK
Smoke-stopping
Shall be
At fireblocked abuts to habitable space, e.g., stringer head,
At firestopped... ( added 2 years 147 days ago.) |
Home Building – House Frame Work, Part 1 -
- Ralph Pressel (48,095)
From my perspective as custom home designer, draftsman, and builder, a master carpenter has the toughest job of any tradesman on a site, being the one not only to lead in forming up a structure from two dimensions of lines to three dimensions of substance, but also to provide for, adapt to, or... ( added 2 years 148 days ago.) |
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