ARCHITECTS’ DRAWINGS
To be able to understand the architect’s drawings and plans of the proposed home is to have valuable knowledge, for many disappointments and misunderstandings that befall the average home-owner can be avoided. Verifying actual dimensions of the various rooms or verandahs, or visioning the house as it will appear when finished, becomes a simple job, for there is little difficulty attached to plan-read-ing, and the possibility of any radical deviation from the approved plans is overcome. It should be remembered that an architect’s scale is graduated into eighths of an inch. A foot rule is divided, therefore, into 96 parts (12 times 8), each part representing one foot. To ascertain the dimensions of a room, then, measure with a rule, and let each eighth of an inch represent one foot. Thus, if a wall measures 16 eighths, the actual length will be 16 feet.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 29, 27 April 1927, Page 10
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146ARCHITECTS’ DRAWINGS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 29, 27 April 1927, Page 10
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