Discover the intricate details of door schedules and the significant information they carry such as room number, fire rating, width, height, material, and hardware details. Learn how to read these schedules to identify door types and their specific features, including their placement, material, fire rating, and hardware set.
Key Insights
- Door schedules contain crucial information such as the room number, door type, fire rating, width, height, material, and intricate details of the head and jam.
- Details such as fire rating are indicative of the door's location; for instance, a door with a one and a half hour fire rating is typically found in paths of egress, exceeding the usual one hour fire rating requirement.
- Hardware set details, including door knobs and hinges, are specified in the door schedule or in the hardware set specifications, providing comprehensive information about the door and its components.
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You can see images of all of these doors, and you can see the letter that is assigned to that door. These letter assignments are typically included in the door schedule, which is on this page. You can see, for example, on this door that there's a dimension called H, a width called W, and that information is presented in the door legend itself.
So there's a column for room number, there's the actual icon that is shown on the floor plan drawing or the mark, the name of the room, the type of the door, and the type of the door would mean which of these images is associated with it, fire rating, width, height, material, head and jam details. So what we can see for this door is that it is located in the room named Stair 1. It's an A1 type. It's a one and a half hour fire rating.
So what that's telling us is that it's in a path of egress. This would be like a door from a hallway into a stair or from a stair to the outside. These egress corridors are typically a one hour fire rating, and so these egress doors exceed the requirements.
The width and the height are the width and the height values that are scheduled. So rather than including the dimension here, it's up here in the schedule, because sometimes you can see like here, we have doors that have different heights and widths, but they might be the same type of doors. We see that the door is wood.
We see that it's a hollow metal frame, and that there are details provided elsewhere in the drawing set that show the condition of the head, which is the top, and the jam, which is the side of the door. If this were a window, it would have a bottom sill detail. We see that it has a glass panel, and then these are numbers of the hardware set, and the hardware sets include the door knobs and the hinges.
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So these would be called out in either a hardware set drawing or in the hardware set specifications. If we look over here, we see the same kind of information. Here's the mark, the tag that's on the drawing.
It's in room 301. It's in the knockdown storage area. It's a type A1.
If I pan down here, I see that this is a type A1. It's a 20-minute door, 3 feet wide, 7 feet tall, wood, hollow metal frame. Uses the details H1 for the head detail, J1 for the jam detail.
This one has a built-in sill, so it might be a metal sill on the bottom, and it uses hardware set number 28. So there we have the door schedule.
