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Many of our customers want to customize their own home and choose to modify
our plans. To respond to your needs, we have our own residential building
designer who, along with his staff, performs this modification work for our
customers. While you may choose to have your builder make your modifications
or hire someone locally to do them, we’re glad to facilitate the process. |
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| How Our Modification Service Works |
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To get your free modification estimate within two business days, follow these easy steps:
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Find the plan that you wish to modify either online or in our magazine. |
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Click on the Modify Plan button located on every house plan page on our
website (click here to go to see our Modification Request Form). |
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Complete the form, giving clear instructions outlining the changes you
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Click the Send button. |
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| You can use this alternative method, which may expedite the quoting process:
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Print out the floor plan (or make a sketch of it). |
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Draw your proposed changes directly on the floor plan and write a matching description of those changes. |
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Fax the drawings and description of your changes to us at 203-761-8600 or scan them and email them to prez@architecturaldesigns.com.
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Within two business days, you will receive a phone call outlining the costs
involved to customize your design and an explanation of the next steps
necessary to get the modified plans into your hands. You’ll also receive a
detailed email summarizing the modification estimate.
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| Modification Do’s and Don’ts |
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| Common modification requests include: |
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Altering the type of foundation. |
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Enlarging or adding a garage or changing the garage entry. |
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Adding to or reducing the size of one or more rooms (those on the
extremities of the home design are the most cost-efficient). |
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Adding or removing a fireplace (can be done by your builder). |
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Reconfiguring a bathroom or kitchen. |
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Altering the exterior building material (can be done by your builder). |
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Changing exterior walls from 2”x4” to 2”x6”. |
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Services not offered by our designer include:
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Drawing the plans in reverse (modifications are always drawn to match
the basic set). |
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Drawing modifications for local codes or structural design. |
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Detailed electrical, plumbing, or heating and cooling plans (these are
referred to as mechanicals). |
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Drawing site plot plans or existing grade conditions. |
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Combining an elevation from one plan and a floor plan from another, or
vice versa. |
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| Next Steps
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If you approve of our modification estimate and want to purchase the plan,
you will be charged for both the modification and the reproducible set of
plans. Since all of our plans are protected by copyright law, purchasing a
reproducible set is the only way to release our designer to alter the plan
and to allow you to make additional copies once the work has been completed.
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Your first draft of the modification will be submitted to you within four
weeks of the receipt of the reproducible. You will receive up to three
drafts to ensure that your changes have been made. Items added after the
first draft that were not in the original request will initiate an extra
charge. If more changes are required, they will be billed at $75 per hour.
You will be advised in advance of any such charges.
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Modifications will appear on a separate sheet with changes noted, referring
you to the main sheet for details. All modifications are made to meet
national building codes. They cannot be done for specific state regulations,
and we cannot guarantee that they will meet local building codes. You may be
required to have a local architect, designer, or engineer review the plans
to comply with local or state requirements. |
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Time and cost estimates are valid for ninety days.
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If you have any questions about our modification process, call us toll-free
at 1-800-854-7852.
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