Ummmm… all the numbers on the right are incorrect.
No, they are just confusing, because we do not know where 0' is.
0 is usually the top of the slab. And, after the foundation is poured, you only want to know how far off the slab everything is.
We do not usually dimension the bottom of windows. Only the top. Because the contractors will put the bottom in to fit the window.
The "sill plate" is the thing that connects the wall to the foundation. Not the bottom of the window.
But, all of this could be English, and then i am messed up.
Like I said, this is a WIP. Copy/pasted text is not all fully updated. I am showing incomplete steps in the process while I am relearning. I didn't even have the scale right in the section view label for my viewport layout.
When I worked in commercial architecture, the floor started at 100', not 0', but I may decide to set it at 0 instead. The fun part about building my own templates from scratch is I can do it my way. The hard part is I have to decide what my way is.
I don't plan to ever have 3 levels of basement below grade to signal to the contractor.
Well, commercial buildings usually have a lot of below grade work.
Basements and sub-basements. Parking structures and services.
House building contractors usually aren't so savvy. They want to know how tall the wall is. "do i get 8' studs or 9'?"
And the height of the house is usually done on the (can't remember word) the front-side-back exterior drawings. Because that information is only useful to the landscape architect and the city council. (which don't care about the internals of the house at all)
(and you really want your three levels of basement to not be on the plans, so that the city doesn't know about them :-p )
When I did work on residential projects, the elevation drawings were used to identify finish materials, utility meters, and special instructions for siding, e.g. shake shingle siding in the gables above a band of trim. The section showed heights.
yep, yep and yep
However, it was the one spot i placed the overall height to ridge.
The elevations went to the
neighborhood watchi mean local "prettiness" gastapo.And, the only number they cared about was total building height.
The contractors didn't care about that number, at all. They just needed to know, how tall the walls were. The truss/roof would take care of itself.
Ugh. I did some work once near a local airstrip where heights were critical because there were specific airspace roghts-of-way for landing aircraft, but other than that, it hasn't had to get magic permission anywhere. I have a deep loathing for HOAs and city planning officials from general experience.
And rightfully so!
Honest politicians just steal your money.
Those bastards steal your time, thinking that you're a retired person with nothing but time on their hands.
I did a quick double-check. The rough sill is the bit at the bottom of window framing, while the bottom plate in wall framing might be called the "mudsill" for this slab-on-grade plan, but that usually refers to the plate between a stem wall and the floor platform framing. "Sill" itself is just an old word for a horizontal load bearing structural piece in general, whether a windowsill or mudsill. I will clarify the terms and add (varies) to cover all eventualities. I may also skip calling out the ledger height because that can also vary depending on the door vendor, although 6'-8" door assembies do typically call for a 6'-10" rough opening, that may vary.