Almost every home plan website offers a change in inventory drawings to meet your specific requirements. This is a valuable service - but be careful, some seemingly insignificant changes can be expensive and costly to build.
A change - many drawings
There was a time when the house plan was changed on site and there were no documents at all. If you want to make the house bigger, you just need to tell your contractor - you have no plans for inspectors and building inspectors looking at your shoulders.
But as we will learn in Chapter 4" a house plan is not enough "Building codes across the country are becoming more and more rigorous, and plan examiners are paying closer attention to residential plans. When making changes to a set of drawings, regardless of size or complexity, the changes must be consistent with the original plan. Sometimes this It's not a big deal, but sometimes it requires a lot of changes to make expensive changes to the sheet set and the house itself.
For example, consider a theoretical two-foot extension of a family room with a basement behind a two-story house. If you are using a normally complete set of plans, your two-foot extension will require all of the following drawings to be accepted by the local building department:
Basic plan
First floor plan
Second floor plan
Roof plan
Left side facade
Right side facade
Rear facade
Main building section
These are just "architectural" drawings – you also need to make structural changes, which may require a registered architect or professional engineer to review. These calculations must be re-run in areas where energy regulations are required.
Don't let this scare you into thinking about changing your design - just make sure you get a firm quote all Make your drawings fully ready for the job you need to submit your license. Or better yet, find a plan that doesn't require these changes.
Some planning services have popular "pre-designed" additions and changes, and all necessary drawings have been completed. If one of the designs meets your needs, then this is a more efficient and cost effective approach.
Consider the impact on other parts of the house
If you find that the changes you are making are not provided as pre-designs, you may need to make custom changes. But don't get into big changes - the trick is to avoid making too many changes so that you'd better switch to another plan or design a custom home from scratch.
Every day, my staff will advise homeowners who have completed their home design - and then add another room. We often find that the final room [usually a screened porch] is difficult or impossible to seamlessly fit into the design.
If they don't consider the entire design from day one, they may "spoof" a very good family plan.
The same concept applies to pre-designed residential plans. Don't buy almost everything you want, and assume that your other rooms can be easily added. A room may make a mess of all the houses you fall in love with.
Adding a room to a completed plan can sometimes cause a change in the chain reaction - the new room blocks the bedroom window; the window cannot be moved without moving the wall; the moving wall makes the bathtub too small...etc
Instead, take advantage of the "learning plan" offered by most services. Purchase a learning set that is closest to the plan you want and let the planning service or your design professional evaluate the feasibility of the changes you want. Learning kits are not cheap, but they are much cheaper than redefining the entire plan.
Architect can't stamp plan
It is written somewhere on each program service website: "You may need to review your house plan and stamp it with a local engineer or architect."
Unfortunately, this is illegal in many jurisdictions - for architects. According to the regulations, the architect must Prepare or supervise preparation They can be stamped or stamped before the architectural drawings. Otherwise called the "plan mark", it is a practice that allows the architect to spend his license.
This is a bit like a problem 22; you have permission from the program's author to change the plan, but not from the architect licensing committee in your state.
In some cases, if the architect makes major changes to them, he can stamp a plan he has not prepared. What is considered "important"? This is determined by your architect and his national committee. If you make a lot of changes to the plan, you may already be clear, although the "significant" changes are not accepted legal thresholds. But what if the design you find is normal and you only need to be ready to submit a license?
The irony is that in this case, "non-architects" - residential designers, drafters or structural engineers - might be a better choice. As an architect, I can hardly say, but the law is the law!
For structural review, the answer is simple - find and hire a local structural engineer to review the plan, determine the dimensions of the structural members, and place their seals on the collection. Experienced structural engineers may also encounter some "non-structural" code issues.
For non-structural questions, you can ask the architect to provide a standard note that you can attach to the drawing - no need to mark the drawing. You can also get this information from the builder or home designer or drafter.
However, all of this may not be practical - because there are very few jurisdictions in the country that require architects to stamp the drawings on single-family homes!
So please consult your construction department first - but don't think that architects can always "stamp" your pre-designed plans.
at the lowest limit Code compliance
The plan to plan service sales is in line with the effective code of the building site and the building.
In the United States, local building codes are based on one of four current "model" codes. Each of these codes has similarities, but each code has a difference. Every code is regularly revised, so they are constantly changing.
The house plan you purchased is likely to require some changes to make it "reach the code."
More importantly, you think that the plan you buy can only be like this idea. Minimally Meets building codes. This will make your plan more than most construction departments, but will leave quite a few specifications and undecided details of the home.
This is the case for most single-family architectural drawings, even drawings provided by architects. Working with your architect and your interior designer, you can solve all the details you need to build indoor and outdoor décor.
Check the list of drawings for your scheduled service - some services contain more details than others. Planning is a good start, but you may still have a lot of work to do!
Orignal From: How to choose a housing plan - Part 3 of 10
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