Send me a DM, I'll do your plan (fit for submission) in Autocad, to spec and ready for presentation to a licensed architect for his stamp.
Soley, for the pleasure of proving that unless you've sat in the draftsman's seat and hammered-out blueprints, you really don't know $**t. it never
was the cost of having plans prepared by competent draftsmen, we know our business. It is more like the constraints of the various agencies who
sustain themselves by the very nature of their public authority. We all wipe our butts with paper, yes? Well, the town requires their share of paper
too, the clerks and the self-sustaining administrators of building policy, need to assert their power over us. architects across this blighted state,
have folded up their tents, like ornamental plasterers, they wallow in the tarpits of antiquated yesteryear, a dead issue in a State and a time that
has lost all respect for the profession of architecture. Anyone can find a drafting service to lay down the proper linework that the town building
department can begin to review in the earnest desire to justify their own existence, a smart detailer will prepare a set of plans which are conclusive,
often totally devoid of ambiguity and fully, code-conforming, the secret is to understand that much like the proof of the pudding, or just beauty itself,
whatever is arrived at, is in the hands and the eyes of the building department, the bureaucratic beholder.
Did you ever wonder about the credentials of people like DaVinci, or Tesla or Frank Loydd Wright? These fellows were not encumbered by town
codes, unions, variances or conformity to a point of excess, they were free to express their ideas in a society that was more concerned with doing the
right thing, than allowing themselves to be cowed into submission to administrative dogma, the sorely overwritten constraint that one faces in a quest
to better their property and reasonably improve their existence in society. I suppose that if it were legal to live in a house that more closely resembled
a shack in Guatemala, the zeal of our guardian agencies would seem to be in order. A 4' x 5' bathroom in a overtaxed home on Long Island? I think that
somewhere there in local government there is a clerk who is well paid to strain out the gnat and gulp down the camel. Some of architecture's best latter-
day creations, have been sketched upon the back of cocktail napkins, I mean we're not talking the pyramids here, are we? Any good general contractor
will have a source for compiling finished plans, if he doesn't, he's not on top of his game. Behind every good builder there's a great draftsman who stands
ready to set down in the language of lines and shades, elevations and details, plans and specifications, fit to get the job done. We may still long to ply our
craft, to lay down the lines and execute the blueprints but today we do so in a whirlpool of legal encumbrance, that so often leads us to accepting the fact
that it doesn't really pay, to improve oneself.
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$4,000.00 wow
