If you finalized your budget and have a lot already, you can now hire an architect or either a draftsman who will draw your dream house. You should have an idea how big your house should be as well as your desire design. You probably want a two-storey house or bungalow type. In this case, your architect will create a house which provides the plans and specification of your house. House plan is a set of construction or working drawings that describe all the construction specifications of a house such as dimensions, layouts, materials, installation methods and techniques.
House plan is one of the requirements in order to construct a house. It is submitted to acquire a building permit. These will also use by the suppliers and subcontractors to tell what materials will be used in your house as well as how your house look like.
The following are components of house plan
• Foundation Plan
It contains the plan indicating the general design intent of the foundation including dimensions, concrete walls, footings, pads, posts, beams, bearing walls, and extent of structural slabs.
• Floor Plan
It includes the dimension plans such as room layout, walls, doors and windows. Exterior and interior wall framing are also included. The room sizes and any beams, posts and structural bearing points are indicated. Also, it contains the electrical legend, electrical fittings, lights, outlets as well as the cross-section details and any special framing details application to the design.
• Exterior Elevation
It indicate the materials for the walls, roof and other elements that part of the room. Also, it includes the floor and ceiling heights, dimensions of standard windows and roof overhangs, location of flashing, height and location of foundation, type of finishing and textures.
• Roof Plan
It indicated the types of roofs to be used. It illustrates ridges, valleys, and hips as well as the roofing materials, slopes of roof surfaces, chimneys and decorative elements.
• Electrical Plan
It provides the drawings of electrical plan that indicates the location of the lighting fixtures, switches and outlets, lighting design and layouts.
• Building Section and truss details
It shows the changes in floor, ceiling, roof height and the relationship of one level to another. It shows the relationship the ground to the house and the roof.
• Construction Notes and Details
It provides the foundation, interior walls, exterior walls, floors, stairways and roof details. It also includes the certain type of walls, concrete porch and connection with wood frames and among others.
Here in the Philippines, the cost of house plan is more of less Php15,000.00 for bungalow type and more or less Php25,000.00 for two-storey house.