Discover how to navigate through construction documents using a finished material legend and other symbols in the context of a house plan. This article explains how different symbols represent base materials, wall and ceiling materials, as well as other elements like window and door symbols.
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- The article explains the use of a finished material legend in a construction document. This legend details the material used for the floor, the base material, the wall material, and the ceiling. For instance, in the given context, 'CP' represents carpet on the floor and 'W' represents wood at the base of the wall.
- In moisture-prone spaces such as bathrooms, a different type of gyp board, referred to as GW or moisture-resistant gyp board, is used to prevent mould build-up.
- The article also highlights the significance of maintaining consistency in keynotes across all floor plan drawings in a project. This allows contractors to easily identify materials and other construction elements when reviewing the drawings.
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You'll notice that I have this interesting matrix on the floors of the rooms. So let's go over on the right-hand side and see what this is all about. This is my finished material legend.
In the finished material legend, I'm calling out the floor, the base material, what's on the walls, and the ceiling. And so, for example, since we can see it right here, we see that in the family room, the first symbol is CP. This is telling me that in the family room on the floor is CP carpet.
The base molding at the wall is wood. I have a W here for wood. I'm showing wood over here.
I'm showing that the wall, the third symbol, is gyp board. So this is five-eighths inch thick gyp board. And the ceiling is also gyp board.
Now, let's go over to the bathroom for a second. You'll notice that in the bathroom, the call-out is GW and GW. So let's go back, and you'll see that this GW means moisture-resistant gyp board.
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When we have water-prone spaces, we use a different kind of gyp board than standard because we don't want to have mold buildup and that sort of thing. So this, again, is the finished material legend. I'm just going to back off a little bit.
You can, again, see our keynote list. Everything is detailed here. Now, one thing that's very interesting is that in this set of construction documents, as I mentioned earlier, we had eight different house models.
These keynotes in this project were consistent for all plan types. So regardless if I was on Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, or Unit 4, I would have the same keynotes listed on all of my floor plan drawings. So that way, when the contractor was thumbing through the drawings, they could say, oh, this is Keynote 20.
When I see Keynote 20, I know that it will always mean vinyl window blinds and so on and so forth. Let's back off a little bit. We have the house.
We have the dimensions. Again, we have our building section indicators. So I have a building section that's starting here, and the section is ending down here.
If I were to zoom into this area, you can see that this is Building Section 1. Again, the page that we're on right now is Sheet A1.0, and I will see the building section on Image 1 on Sheet A1.1, and we'll be going there in a few more minutes. Again, you see that we have dimensions. We have the callouts for the building sections.
Again, here in the family room, for example, I have an interior elevation, so my elevation will be Image 7, Elevation A on Sheet A1.3, and the first occurrence of this interior elevation is on Sheet A1.0. We have the plans. We have the dimensions. We have the building section callouts.
We have hexagons, which are being used for window symbols. We have circles that are being used for door symbols. We have our finished material information callouts, and there we have our first floor plan.
