I am new here, and I hope I am posting in the right forum.
I am not an architect, but a consumer trying to understand an architectural floor plan.
Specifically, I want to understand what the various numbers on the sides of the floor plan mean - How do I figure out the dimensions of the rooms from the floor plan. For example, how wide is the living room, porch, etc. What is the length and width of the building. I am hoping once I can figure out one, I should be able to get the others.
Attached is the floor plan
Thanks in advance for your assistance
Non Sequitur
Jun 29, 20 12:08 pm
Simple math will help. Add the string of dimensions for whatever room you want and boom, your get basic total X by Y dimensions.
oyiwaanoela
Jun 29, 20 12:12 pm
OK ... there are 3 lines of dimensions, with varying levels of closeness to the building from the outer boundary.
So which one do you use? the first one closest to the building? So for the porch, do you 75mm, then 4950, 2250 and 2400?
And secondly, what are the units - I am thinking millimeters..
cheers, Oy
Non Sequitur
Jun 29, 20 12:46 pm
yes and yes. very simple
citizen
Jun 29, 20 12:54 pm
Metric. Sheesh.
citizen
Jun 29, 20 12:55 pm
And dimensions are all to centerlines, meaning that you'll need to deduct wall thickness if you need more precise room sizes.
Non Sequitur
Jun 29, 20 12:59 pm
secondary line of dims includes wall thickness
citizen
Jun 29, 20 1:07 pm
Ah. Good catch!
gwharton
Jun 29, 20 12:57 pm
The light dashed lines running across the plans are construction grid lines, which look like they are located in the center lines of walls. So to get the actual clear room dimensions (or what we call "carpet area"), you'll need to add up the dimensions between the grid lines between the walls for a room, then subtract out half the thickness of the wall.
atelier nobody
Jun 29, 20 4:27 pm
Tangential question for those of you who regularly use unamerican units: Is it typical to see dimensions all in millimetres like this, or would you more commonly see major building dimensions in meters with decimal?
Non Sequitur
Jun 29, 20 4:29 pm
always mm.
edit. unless it's a site plan. then it's in m because writing 27890mm is ridiculous when 28m is good enough for SPA review.
Hello,
I am new here, and I hope I am posting in the right forum.
I am not an architect, but a consumer trying to understand an architectural floor plan.
Specifically, I want to understand what the various numbers on the sides of the floor plan mean - How do I figure out the dimensions of the rooms from the floor plan. For example, how wide is the living room, porch, etc. What is the length and width of the building. I am hoping once I can figure out one, I should be able to get the others.
Attached is the floor plan
Thanks in advance for your assistance
Simple math will help. Add the string of dimensions for whatever room you want and boom, your get basic total X by Y dimensions.
OK ... there are 3 lines of dimensions, with varying levels of closeness to the building from the outer boundary.
So which one do you use? the first one closest to the building? So for the porch, do you 75mm, then 4950, 2250 and 2400?
And secondly, what are the units - I am thinking millimeters..
cheers, Oy
yes and yes. very simple
Metric. Sheesh.
And dimensions are all to centerlines, meaning that you'll need to deduct wall thickness if you need more precise room sizes.
secondary line of dims includes wall thickness
Ah. Good catch!
The light dashed lines running across the plans are construction grid lines, which look like they are located in the center lines of walls. So to get the actual clear room dimensions (or what we call "carpet area"), you'll need to add up the dimensions between the grid lines between the walls for a room, then subtract out half the thickness of the wall.
Tangential question for those of you who regularly use unamerican units: Is it typical to see dimensions all in millimetres like this, or would you more commonly see major building dimensions in meters with decimal?
always mm.
edit. unless it's a site plan. then it's in m because writing 27890mm is ridiculous when 28m is good enough for SPA review.
Thanks, NS, good to know.
Check this article - https://www.houseplans.com/blo... and good luck!
Architectural drawings in mm always, landscape in m. And 27890mm would probably be shown as 27,89m not 28 :)
27.9m.
;-)
that decimal point gets tricky
Haha well its also hard if you dont know we use commas and decimal points the other way around in Europe:
In America its 9,100.00 and in Europe the same amount is 9.100,00