Permit-ready deck and porch drawings, drafted from your measurements and design. Framing plans, elevations, ledger, footing and stair details, and a site plan with setbacks, for decks, screened porches and covered porches.
When the building department wants drawings before you can dig, send the sketch and the field measurements. The set comes back as a PDF ready to submit, plus the DWG, so the crew builds from the same plan the inspector approved.
A permit sheet for a rear deck with a screened porch: framing plan with ledger, joists, beam, posts and footings, the stair and guards, a rear elevation, ledger and footing details, a site plan with setbacks, framing schedule, design loads, notes and legend. The sheet below is a sample on a fictitious house, drawn in the same format as a client set, so you can see the deliverable without us publishing anyone's project.
Ledger, joists, beams, posts and footings laid out with sizes, spacing and spans, the way plan reviewers expect to read them.
Screened and covered porches on a new or existing deck: floor framing, post locations, screen walls and the roof outline.
Elevations with deck height, guards and stairs, plus ledger, footing, post, guard and stair details for the reviewer.
The deck drawn on the lot with setbacks, easements and lot coverage, from your plat, survey or the county GIS map.
Plan reviewers want framing, footings and the house attachment shown clearly. Every set is drafted to the code your jurisdiction adopts and checked before it comes back.
One deck is a good test. Builders with a season of jobs can set up a standing slot on the board.
Share a sketch or photos, field measurements, the deck height and your lot plat. Ask with no files if you just need a quote.
You get a written quote and a delivery date. Approve it and the job goes on the board.
Site plan, framing plan, elevations and details are drafted, then checked against your measurements and the code basis.
The PDF set and DWG come back ready to submit. Plan-review comments are picked up as one revision round.
Every deck or porch is quoted before work begins. The scope below is the same on every set.
Plans are drafted from your field measurements and design direction, to the deck provisions your jurisdiction adopts. DK Drafting is a drafting service, not an engineering firm: where the building department requires a stamped structural design, that stays with a licensed engineer, and we draft to their direction.
Site plans are drawn from the plat, survey or GIS data you provide. Where the jurisdiction requires a survey, property lines are confirmed by your surveyor. Revisions: plan-review comments come back as one consolidated revision round.
A sketch or photos of the house wall, field measurements, the deck height above grade, the decking and railing you plan to use, and the lot plat or survey for the site plan. If your building department has a deck handout or checklist, send it and the set follows it.
Yes. Most sets go to deck builders and remodelers, but homeowners pulling their own permit are welcome. Send the same information and the plan comes back ready to submit.
Yes. Screened and covered porches are drawn with the floor framing, post locations, screen walls and roof outline. Roof framing the building department wants engineered is drafted to the engineer's direction.
Member sizes, spans and the ledger attachment follow the prescriptive deck provisions your jurisdiction adopts, which is IRC R507 in most of the country, along with the frost depth and snow load your building department lists. Local amendments go on the sheet when you send them.
Most decks built to the prescriptive tables do not. Hot tubs, roof loads, and tall or unusual decks often do. When a stamp is required, the structural design stays with a licensed engineer, and we can draft the set to their direction.
A standard deck in 2 to 3 business days. Porches and multi-level decks are scheduled with the quote, and rush turnaround is available on request.
Send the deck size, height and location and Dakota will reply within one business day with a quote and a delivery date. Files are welcome but not required to ask.
A written quote and delivery date before any drafting starts.
Pool, deck and equipment pad plans on the survey.
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