Browse Forums General Discussion Re: reading house floor plans - help! 5Feb 15, 2009 10:12 am Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: reading house floor plans - help! 7Feb 15, 2009 10:26 am Jo Settled In - Home Search and Relocation Services - http://www.settledin.com.au http://www.movingbacktotassie.blogspot.com/ viewtopic.php?t=9571 Re: reading house floor plans - help! 8Feb 15, 2009 11:30 am Building Upside down house in Wantirna VIC Current Stage: Procrastination... it's just all too hard.... Blog: http://thereluctantbuilder.blogspot.com/ Re: reading house floor plans - help! 10Feb 16, 2009 11:51 am [quote="ozkarnak"]Try this program.
http://v3.planningwiz.com/ Its free with no adverts - it'll take about 20minutes to map out your plans then you can start playing with the furniture.[/quote] I went with a more advanced program called archiCad, but it's a bit TOO advanced since it turned oout to be a proffesional architectual program. I probably should've found a forum like this and found out what the best program was before diving right in. [/list][/quote] Re: reading house floor plans - help! 11Feb 16, 2009 9:17 pm Floorplanner ( http://www.floorplanner.com ) is another good one which can do what you want:
- Is web-based - no need to install and works on Mac/Linux. - Very easy to use. - Lets you upload your builders plan, and use it as a semi-transparent background so you can get all your walls in the right places. - Includes some standard furniture items (actually, quite a lot - take a look) which you can then add. - You can save and share the plans with others. Re: reading house floor plans - help! 12Feb 16, 2009 9:20 pm Rachelle I use My Virtual Home, you can really get a feel for how things will look, what shapes work, how much space you need to leave between furniture etc. ftw.. I'm a forum "mod" on MVH.. Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: reading house floor plans - help! 14Feb 18, 2009 6:49 pm Joles, you're so prepared and it really helps if you've the plan in ur bag at all times ( when u are out).
Sometimes u think u won't have the chance to visit a particular shop/vendor but turn out u " accidentally" met them, then just found OMG the info./ details or plans were left at home. So disappointed However, i found one thing when referring to 1:100 scale. At the beginning I read the 1:100 in A4 floorplan and used ruler to measure some parts in the house, but found it was a bit smaller. Later, I knew the 1:100 seemed to refer to A3 drawing. Re: reading house floor plans - help! 15Feb 19, 2009 9:20 am All good plans will say
"1:100 when printed A3". Generally there is also a scale on the page too, check that with a ruler before doing anything else! I used to work for an Engineering firm, and to get prints from electronic drawings just right is an art, always check the scale. Most builders give you plans in PDF, goto File > print and look at the resizing it does, most go down to ~96% so it fits in the margins, that means your scale is out 4%. isn't a garage level with the rest of the house a given? pretty sure they 'came around' long time ago. if you have a flat block, the garage is usually level with the rest… 1 18510 bec of more thickness and underlay i prefer laminate. also my builder covers laminate only. 2 2384 |