Home plan detail of door and window plans demand close attention and a lot of specifics. This article is about home door plan details.
HOME DOOR PLAN DETAILS
You just have to detail all this and sometimes more than all this to make it clear about door plans
What owners need to have
Where they need to have it
How they need to installed
Expect lots of information from this home plan schedule of details, too
A code for cross reference to
Interior and exterior elevations
Floor plans
Number of doors
Of a type
On a level, etc.
Taking care to distinguish units of doors, say, a double-door pair from the two individual, constituent slabs
Style or form
Single-swing
Double
Pocket
Bypass
Bifold
Cased
Smooth
Patterned
Callout
In feet and inches
Not to rough opening as it is (usually) with windows
Comment: If the door callout is 3068, the door is 3 linear feet-0 linear inches wide and 6 linear feet-8 linear inches tall. (If the window callout is 3068, the window is 30 linear inches wide and 68 linear inches tall.)
Door Plan, Illustrated Hand and Swing
Rough or masonry opening
In feet and inches
Note that these leeways vary
Between types of doors
Between carpenters
Comment: This home designer has has noted from time to time that some other designers include facsimile drawings of door styles either as part of or the entirety of a Door Schedule with key codes for cross-reference to floor plans, etc. Before The Architect hasn’t done this to date; clients so far have chosen their own door styles.
Type of door slab, e.g., colonial raised panel, flush, etc.
Level on which the door is set
Between what 2 spaces the door goes
Material of the door – hollow, solid, steel, etc.
Interior or exterior
Axis relative to house faces, e.g., FOH-BOH, LOR-ROH
To what space the door swings, if it does swing
This designation can get mired in misery between left-hand and right-hand
Either graphically specify what you mean by left-hand and right-hand and in- and out-swing, or
Much better yet, define to which space a door swings and which house direction, e.g., BOH for Back Of House or compass orientation, is either the lock jamb, leaving it to the door pros to work it out on their own terms
Comment: There’s no telling how screwed up door orders can get when the other guy doesn’t get hand and swing right. Of significant importance in this regard is the direction of travel: don’t detail that direction and you can get whatever. Once upon a time, this custom home designer specified hand and swing incorrectly for every one of a couple dozen interior doors in a major rehab. Every one. It’s a dangerous world. Not all contractors, subs, and suppliers will check through your specifications, comparing your door plan for your floor plan.
Comment: Please note the redundancy in these itemized details. Redundancy is your friend.
Special notes
Fire-rating
Self-closing
Self-latching
French
Finish
Adaptable
Swing-away hinges
Pocket door adaptation
Special order
Of wood
Of glaze
Of boring
Of hinging
Etc.
Transom
If arched, whether or not flattened,
Include major and minor axes
Sidelites
Arched, whether Roman, Gothic, etc.
Include minor axis
Include spring line
Security measures
To impede drilling
To impede carding
To protect hinge pins
Etc.
Centerlines on floor plans serve door siting best, as with windows and interior walls
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» left by mahadevi from bangalore (241 days 1 hour ago.)
according to vastu in home how many doors we have to place Respond to this comment
» left by Ralph Pressel(47,424) (240 days 23 hours ago.)
Dear Mahadevi,
AG's limited understanding of Vastu Sastra, or Vaastu Shastra, in regard to the number of doors in a residence as follows: 1. there must be at least one and only one main door; 2. there may be other, lesser doors, preferably of an even number in total doors, including the main door, and, less preferably, of an odd number, and unpreferably neither 10 in total nor a multiple of 8; 3. door count includes only doors within the home and at its exterior, that is, neither doors of outbuildings nor hardscape gates and such; 4. door count excludes interior doors that do not rise to ceiling height; 5. a pair of double doors is a door count of one.
Please note that the compass orientation of doors is significant, and may be formative in coming to the total number of doors in a home.
Thanks,
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