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Al Whitley/5 min read

Understanding Interior Elevation and Door-Window Schedules in Architectural Plans

Schedule Components

Interior Elevation

Wall-by-wall view showing finishes, casework, and openings.

Door Schedule

Lists every door with size, type, hardware, and frame info.

Window Schedule

Window sizes, types, glazing, and frame materials.

Tag Cross-Reference

Tags on plan match schedule rows for traceability.

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This tutorial walks through understanding interior elevation and door-window schedules in architectural plans, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

The next sheet we will be working on will be our Interior Elevation sheet, but I wanted to take you back to the floor plan for a second, because you can see, for example, here in the Family Room, in the Kitchen, in the Laundry Room, in the Bathroom, in all of the Bathrooms actually, I have icons for Interior Elevations. And so if I, for example, zoom in on the Kitchen, you can see that my source page is A1.0. The Interior Elevations are on page A1.3. Under image five, I have three Interior Elevations, A, which is looking to the left towards the Refrigerator, B, which is looking down towards the Stove, and C, looking towards the Sink on the right. And over in the Laundry Room, I have A and B. We have the symbol, and where we have the actual elevations, we have the letter calling them out, and we also have a hatch pattern in there that fills them out as being solid.

So I'm now going to switch down to the Interior Elevations, and you can see that I'm on my sheet A1.3. I have my Interior Elevation call-outs over here, but I have my numbers here. So you can see that Bathroom number one is image one, and I have elevation A in it. Bathroom two has elevations A and B in it.

Bathroom three has one elevation. The linen area has one elevation. Here are the three elevations for the Kitchen, A towards the Refrigerator, B towards the Stove, C towards the Sink.

I have the two elevations in the Utility Room and also an elevation of the Fireplace. If I zoom in, again, you can see that I have my keynotes that are calling things out. You'll notice that on the Cabinet doors, like here are some Cabinet doors here and here, but you can see these dashed lines.

These dashed lines are showing us that the cabinets open up, and the arrows, if I can call them this, are pointing towards the hinges. So with these two doors, the door on the left has its hinges on the left, and I can tell that because the arrow of the dashed lines is pointing to the left. Over on the right door, the arrows are pointing towards the hinge arrow on the right.

You can also see that I'm showing them that beyond the door that I have shelving. So I'm showing the Contractor the number of shelves that are included within that cabinet. On the bottom left, I have my Door and Window schedules.

So you can see that I'm showing examples of what the doors look like. You can see that they're panelized doors, and I've also labeled the doors with their different types. And so, for example, you can see that Type B, which is my Front Door, is a Steel Insulated Panelized Door, 1 3⁄4 of an inch thick.

Type C is a Hollow Core Door, Hardboard Paneled. It's an Interior Door, 1 3⁄8 inches thick. So it's very typical that Interior and Exterior doors are different types.

You can see that what I have going on is I have the door number. And if you remember, we had circles for our door numbers, and we had hexagons for our window numbers. So this is saying that door number 1 in the drawing is a pair of 3 0 6 8 doors, and it's types B and P, depending upon the model.

So I have Type B here, and I have Type P here, because you can see that under this classification, it's showing Type B Insulated Door and the Screen Doors that are going on there. So again, I have the door number, how large it is. When you see the left parenthesis, the number 2, and the right parenthesis, that's saying that it's a pair of doors, that I have the Type B and P. So this house would have Screen Doors in front of the actual doors themselves, and A for glazing.

Glazing is glass, so there's no glass in this image. And then it's also saying, if I want to see some detail information about that door, go on sheet A9.1 and look at details 5 and 6. If I look further down here on door numbers 4 and 5, you can see that they do have glazing. It's Dual-Pane Glass, which is used for insulation purposes, and it's also Tempered Glass, which means that it's not going to shatter apart on you.

I also have my Window Schedule. So again, here are the kinds of windows, Type A and Type B. I have my window numbers. I have the Manufacturer Call-Out size, how large they are.

The kind of glazing. Is it Dual Glaze? Is it Energy Efficient, Low-E Glazing? The Detail Reference. Again, I would go to sheet A9.1, details 3,7, and 8. Probably they're going to be the Head, the Jamb, and the Sill details, and any remarks that I have for that window.

And this is saying that Window Call-Out 1 on the plan is using window Type B. So this is the Interior Elevation Schedule and the Door and Window schedules.