Explore the nuances of interpreting building plans with a focus on interior elevations, a critical component for contractors although not a requirement for building permits. This guide provides an understanding of how to read these plans, the symbols used, and the order in which images are presented.
Key Insights
- The guide mentions two sheets that, while not essential for building permits, provide useful information for the contractor, one of which is the interior elevations.
- The arrangement of images on the plan follows a particular order; they are numbered from the top down and from the right to the left, reflecting the usual way in which images are stapled to the left.
- Illustrations in the building plan, like windows, fireplaces, doors, and cabinetry, correspond to symbols in the interior elevations, helping contractors accurately visualize and understand the design.
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The next two sheets I'd like to discuss are really not required for building permits. They're more informational for the contractor. One of these are the interior elevations.
Now, we had spoken earlier about the order in which information is presented, and you can see image one, image two, image three, image four, image five, and so on and so forth. Again, the images are numbered top down and then top to the left. So it's normally from the right down and then from the right over, again, because we tend to staple images on the left.
What I'd like to do for a second is to go back to our living room floor plan. And I'd mentioned this when we were talking about the elevations earlier, the interior elevations, that this is the symbol that's being used for interior elevations. You can see that it's saying to go to sheet A53 and to see the image of this elevation look on the left.
So you're seeing image two. So what I'm going to do is to go over to A53 and I'm looking at image two. So you can see that I have a window, a fireplace, and some doors.
If I go over back into my floor plan, you can see the window, the fireplace, and the doors. If I'm looking at image three, again, this is an interior elevation. Looking from this point down at this wall, you can see that when looking from this viewpoint, I have my door, I have some cabinetry, I have window, door, window.
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So again, if I go to image number three and look at that page, that what I have happening here is the living room window, the cabinetry, and then the view from the kitchen. So these are organized the same way as if I were standing up here looking down. So again, the living room doors would be on the right, as you see is happening here.
If I were to go and choose image number six, that's going to be looking from this point over here. I have a window, a whole bunch of cabinetry, and a door. So I will go back and look at image number six.
So one, two, three, four, five, six. And so again, here is the kitchen window, some shelving, and the doors.
