Discover the importance of interior elevations in construction blueprints and how they relay information to contractors. This article explains the order of information, including images, and how to interpret interior elevation symbols on a floor plan.
Key Insights
- The article explains that interior elevations on construction blueprints are primarily for the benefit of the contractor, even though they may not be necessary for construction permits.
- Interior elevations are represented by symbols on the floor plan, directing the viewer to the corresponding image to understand the elements such as windows, doors, and cabinets.
- The images in the elevation are organized in a specific order, typically numbered from top to bottom and from right to left, to mimic the perspective of a person standing in the room and looking around.
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The two following sheets that I would like to talk about are not really necessary for the construction permits. They are more informative for the contractor. One of these is the interior elevations.
Now we had talked before about the order in which the information is presented. And you can see, image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5, and so on and so on. Again, the images are numbered from top to bottom and then from top to left.
So, it is usually from right to bottom and then from right to left, again, because we tend to engrave the images to the left. What I would like to do for a second is go back to our floor plan of the living room. And I mentioned this when we were talking about the elevations before, the interior elevations.
This is the symbol that is being used for the interior elevations. You can see that it says to go to sheet A5.3 and to see the image of this elevation, look to the left. Then you are seeing image 2. So what I'm going to do is go to A5.3 and then look at image 2. Then you can see that I have a window, a chimney, and some doors.
If I go back to my floor plan, you can see the window, the chimney and the doors. If I'm looking at image 3, again, this is an interior elevation looking from this point down on this wall. You can see that when looking from this point of view, I have my door, I have some cabinets, I have a window, door, window.
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So, again, if I go to image number 3 and look at it, what I have here is the window of the room, the carpentry and then the view from the kitchen. So they are organized in the same way as if I were standing here looking down. So, again, the doors of the room would be to the right, as seen here.
If I were to choose image number 6, that would be the view from this point here. I have a window, a lot of cabinets, and a door. So I'll look at image number 6 again.
So 1,2, 3,4, 5,6. And so again, here is the kitchen window, some shelves and doors.
