Explore the intricacies of plumbing guest room plans as demonstrated through high-end hotel suites. Understand the difference between hot and cold water lines, the role of drain lines, and how they are represented in drawings.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed view into plumbing guest room plans, specifically for higher-end hotel suites, highlighting the complexity and attention to detail required.
- Various line types are used in the drawings to represent different elements - hot and cold water lines, as well as drain lines. For instance, drain lines for sinks are typically depicted going down the wall.
- The drawings also depict how water lines branch out to different areas, such as hot water lines branching out to the hot water side, and cold water lines branching out to the cold water handle.
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Let's spend some time looking at the plumbing guest room plans. As we've seen typically, we have general notes and we have keynotes. These drawings are for the higher-end suites in the hotel.
The information is showing not only hot and cold water, it's also showing the drain lines at the same time. It's the line types that convey what's what. We have a drain line for the sink that goes down the wall.
We have hot and cold water, so this would be the hot. This is the cold. You can see following the cold, it branches off to the cold water handle over here.
The hot water branches to the hot water side. The hot water line is coming up through the wall and again branching out. The other suite, similar kind of information.
Here is the drain line coming out of the wall. The hot and cold water coming in, branching, branching, and also coming in and going down over there. So again, a different way of presenting the information.
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And this again is for the more high-end suites that require this kind of detail as opposed to the information that was shown in the building for the more standard suites and hotel rooms. Hope you're enjoying the drawing. Hope you're having a good time.
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