About
Who draws these
Parcel to Plan™ is built by CW Affiliate Investments, LLC, in Wisconsin, by a third generation tradesman.
Three generations of building is where the drawings come from. My grandfather and my father worked in the trades, and the questions this set answers are the questions asked on a job site: where does the ridge beam land, how deep is the footing, what holds the loft edge, how does anyone get up there without breaking their neck. A plan set that cannot answer those is a picture, not a plan.
Why the half A-frame
A full A-frame gives away half its floor to the slope. Cut it in half, stand the rear wall up vertical, and the floor comes back: full height along the whole rear of the building, a loft that fits over it, and one dramatic glazed slope facing the view instead of two ordinary ones facing nowhere.
It is a small building that reads large. The glass wall is the reason to build it, and it is also the reason to think hard before you do: at the design snow load that slope carries roof loading, and it will cost more and lose more heat than the roof it replaces. The drawings say so on the sheet rather than in the footnotes.
The standard these are held to
Three rules, and they are not negotiable inside this shop.
- Every dimension comes from one engine. Depth and width go in, and the geometry engine derives the ridge, the roof planes, the loft, the ladder, the glazing grid and the framing spans. No sheet holds a number of its own, so no two sheets can disagree, and moving a size moves the whole set at once.
- Every sheet is checked against its own PDF vectors. Two headless sweeps render each sheet and read the drawn geometry back: one reports any text or linework leaving the drawing frame, the other reports any two strings sharing ink. What is checked is what a printer will put on the paper, not what the code intended to draw.
- Every code citation is verified against printed code text. The Appendix Q sections these lofts and ladders are drawn to were read from the adopted code text, not recalled from memory, and where the code cross references its way somewhere unexpected the drawings follow it and letter it. Where a provision is a question for the local authority, the sheet says so in a verify block instead of guessing.
These are concept construction drawings. They are not engineered and they are not stamped. Structural sizing and local code compliance are for a licensed professional in your jurisdiction, and the sheets say that too.
The sets
The 14x20 set is drawn and ready. The 12x16 and 16x24 sets are in production.