laknox wrote:
bpounds wrote:
They obviously have/had some drawings/templates. They knew where to put windows in the walls.
But I'm not so sure they have drawings for things like plumbing runs and electrical cable routing. These are built a lot more like your house, and a lot less like your truck. You wouldn't ask for drawings of the plumbing under the sink in your house. A tradesman does that. You wouldn't ask for a schematic of the wire runs in your house. A tradesman drills holes in the studs as he strings his cable. Your trailer is a lot more like that, than the wiring harness under the dash of your truck. It could be argued that that is a lot of the problem with quality. Leaving too much up to the "tradesman" who was probably a farmer last year.
If they do have drawings, why would they give them away? The company I work for wouldn't publish engineering material. It is proprietary.
My son-in-law, a local city building inspector, might take issue with that. :-) I can tell you that if he doesn't see an approved set of plans on whatever it is he's inspecting, and if the reality doesn't match the plans, that project gets red-flagged PDQ. Doesn't matter if it's a permitted storage shed in some guy's back yard or the massive new FedEx Ground warehouse that was built here just recently, and which he inspected most of.
Lyle
Right. Question is, what is the level of detail on those plans. Every building project I've seen, all the devices are shown. Receptacles, light cans, toilet, etc. But the wiring to those devices, is left up to the electrician to route as he sees fit. Same with water and sewer. There are codes as to how that stuff must be run, but it isn't designed by the architect or shown on his plans.
And there really isn't any need for that, in a house or a trailer. For the OP question, you just have to pull back the cover to see what you've got. Go from there.
