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example plans?

 
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good afternoon,

I'm building a cabin and I'm drawing up the plans myself. my county does not require PE stamped drawings and I have some CAD skills (I'm a non-PE engineer myself). I am confident in my load calculations and sourcing of span/load tables.

However, I'm not as familiar with how structural plans are typically done, so I'm hoping to find some example plans that have been approved and built.

when I search around the web, I find a lot of drawings that are just architectural renders, floorplans, or maybe a few one-off structural detail drawings. However, I cannot find a complete drawing package. there are some sites that claim to be selling such drawing sets, but I'm hesitant to spend hundreds of dollars on something when I think there is a good chance that the contents might just be architectural renders or floorplans.

does anyone know where I can find a complete drawing package? Ideally, something that was actually presented to a building department and approved.

I mainly just need it as a reference for putting together my drawing set, so it can have watermarks or whatever on it. I don't actually intent do copy the design itself, but rather just the layout of the document. preferably post-and-beam house or timber frame, but anything would be helpful.

thanks
 
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The reason you cannot find examples of full plan sets, is because those of us who are able to create those documents typically want to get paid to do so.
I'm sure you can understand that the time, expense, and expertise spent in learning this skill is valuable and a commodity.
I have drawn plans for numerous building projects from small additions or remodels to entire houses. I also spent a significant number of years on the residential plan review team for a major municipality as a plan reviewer and supervisor and hold multiple certifications from the International Code Council in residential inspections and plan review. I charge 2.50 USD per square foot to draw a set of plans for someone. The only plan sheet I do not create is the site plan, unless the homeowner can provide a survey of the property stamped by a registered land surveyor that shows some major monumentation on site so that I can locate the proposed structure(s) accurately.

If you want a set purely for reference purposes, I might be willing to provide a digital copy of one of my approved plans for a fee, but those plans will be clearly watermarked with "Not intended for Construction".
You can send me one of those Purple Moosages on this site to discuss.
 
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I was able to find some example plans that are not exactly what I'm building but I thought they could be useful to others.

https://www.freefarmhouse.com/downloads
 
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I immediately thought of one of my favorite forum:

https://countryplans.com/
 
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