Looking for a Dominion Homes floor plan

[jfleisher]

I purchased a house in 2019, it was built in 1998 by Dominion Homes. the specific model is the Addison, a five level split. I’m hoping someone on GJ might have access to the floor plans to this model. Just the basic brochure plan, nothing fancy. Otherwise I’ll need to get out the drafting tools…

I contacted Dominion, they responded with
“ Good afternoon and thank you for your email. This home was constructed in 1997-1998. Regrettably we no longer have the general marketing sketch available of this home's layout.

Dominion Homes Customer Care”

 

[nadogail]

I purchased a house in 2019, it was built in 1998 by Dominion Homes. the specific model is the Addison, a five level split. I’m hoping someone on GJ might have access to the floor plans to this model. Just the basic brochure plan, nothing fancy. Otherwise I’ll need to get out the drafting tools…

I contacted Dominion, they responded with
“ Good afternoon and thank you for your email. This home was constructed in 1997-1998. Regrettably we no longer have the general marketing sketch available of this home's layout.

Dominion Homes Customer Care”

Looks like you need to sharpen your pencils

 

[Sumboodie]

Wonder why a house builder wouldn't have prints? Sounds like this was a mega builder that built hundreds of this design?

 

[BillK]

In a lot of areas the County or City might have the plans on file. Have you checked with them ? If you still live in the house maybe see if your neighborhood has a facebook page and see if there are any original owners on it. We bought our house new in 1978 and still have the original promo package from the builder. We have shared the plans with several people as have some other original owners still in the neighborhood.

 

[jfleisher]

There are several of the same model house nearby. I’ve debated knocking on their door and asking if they still have any of their original paperwork…

@BillK: what city or county office would I check? Engineers? Planning?

 

[walta]

From what I understand most of the production builders never release a copies of the plans to a home owner or anyone else that has not signed a non-disclosure agreement. It seems they think that their competitors could read the plans find all the ways they have found to lower cost and add features. To their way of thinking the plans are trade secrets and guarded like the crown jewels.

Good luck with your hunt.





Walta

 

[Sumboodie]

From what I understand most of the production builders never release a copies of the plans to a home owner or anyone else that has not signed a non-disclosure agreement. It seems they think that their competitors could read the plans find all the ways they have found to lower cost and add features. To their way of thinking the plans are trade secrets and guarded like the crown jewels.

Good luck with your hunt.





Walta

Interesting.

 

[yeldogt]

From what I understand most of the production builders never release a copies of the plans to a home owner or anyone else that has not signed a non-disclosure agreement. It seems they think that their competitors could read the plans find all the ways they have found to lower cost and add features. To their way of thinking the plans are trade secrets and guarded like the crown jewels.

Good luck with your hunt.





Walta

I know someone who had a fire and the builder would not release plans so they could rebuild the house. W/O the plans the cost in professional fees made taking it down the correct move. What got interesting was the rebuild on the foundation -- the insurance company just gave up and took the foundation out as well and started over. this was in a nice development

 

[Lassen Forge]

I wouldn't trust anything home-builder related around 20+ years ago to have anything related to what they built... Even the alleged as-builts are rarely that.
Back then it was "slap it up, sell it out", Get out the tapes and drafting tools, and good luck to you.

 

[bobg03]

I wouldn't trust anything home-builder related around 20+ years ago to have anything related to what they built... Even the alleged as-builts are rarely that.
Back then it was "slap it up, sell it out", Get out the tapes and drafting tools, and good luck to you.

Coastal Carolina has added a new twist, cut the trees, add fill in the swamp and build as many as you can as quickly as you can, ensuring that when the occupant opens a window that they can touch the house next door....
We had some heavy rain for a few hours in North Myrtle Beach and a new neighborhood (AKA Development) caused flooding in an already existing cluster of crowded homes..lol
These homes are built to look nice with substandard tactics.

 

[Max]

There are several of the same model house nearby. I’ve debated knocking on their door and asking if they still have any of their original paperwork…

@BillK: what city or county office would I check? Engineers? Planning?

Whatever group in your city or county that gives and inspects permits.

We were in a similar situation a dozen years ago. The city had records of about 2/3 of the houses on our street but not ours. We ended up paying a couple to measure the house and draw up plans. It was about $2k in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now that I have more time I’d just do it myself.

 

[yeldogt]

Coastal Carolina has added a new twist, cut the trees, add fill in the swamp and build as many as you can as quickly as you can, ensuring that when the occupant opens a window that they can touch the house next door....
We had some heavy rain for a few hours in North Myrtle Beach and a new neighborhood (AKA Development) caused flooding in an already existing cluster of crowded homes..lol
These homes are built to look nice with substandard tactics.

was surprised at all the development on the main drags ---- mrytle beach and even west of murrells inlet. small and wedged in .... 100's of them it seems.

 

[larry4406]

Contact the building permits office. They may have the approved plans on file.

Customer of mine showed up one day with a reduced copy of the approved plans. Asked him where he got the plans as they are proprietary. He said he paid the fee at the county to get a copy since once filed are considered public information.

 

[yeldogt]

Contact the building permits office. They may have the approved plans on file.

Customer of mine showed up one day with a reduced copy of the approved plans. Asked him where he got the plans as they are proprietary. He said he paid the fee at the county to get a copy since once filed are considered public information.

They must be able to get around .... I often have full plans for my projects but I have never been asked to submit a full set w/ all the engineering.

 

[Lassen Forge]

Coastal Carolina has added a new twist, cut the trees, add fill in the swamp and build as many as you can as quickly as you can, ensuring that when the occupant opens a window that they can touch the house next door....
We had some heavy rain for a few hours in North Myrtle Beach and a new neighborhood (AKA Development) caused flooding in an already existing cluster of crowded homes..lol
These homes are built to look nice with substandard tactics.

They did the same out here in Tracy, cut down old orchards in what was originally swampy land, developed it with Huge, impractical, and uninsulated cookie cutter "custom" homes in the central valley, close enough you could reach out a window and shake the neighbor's hand, postage stamp lawns - the MINIMUM you could get by and still meet city code (IIRC they were maybe 10 ft square if that), turns out the ground they're built on is subsiding, the 1/2 million dollar houses are falling apart, and people who bought them now have a minimum 2 hour commute... Get up before dawn, drive ****** roads 2-3 hours to the office, spend 8-10 hours there, another 2-3 hour slog home, and oh, I'm sorry, you have a custom home WHY?

 

[YourMomIsANinja]

I purchased a house in 2019, it was built in 1998 by Dominion Homes. the specific model is the Addison, a five level split. I’m hoping someone on GJ might have access to the floor plans to this model. Just the basic brochure plan, nothing fancy. Otherwise I’ll need to get out the drafting tools…

I contacted Dominion, they responded with
“ Good afternoon and thank you for your email. This home was constructed in 1997-1998. Regrettably we no longer have the general marketing sketch available of this home's layout.

Dominion Homes Customer Care”

The Addison : Dominion Homes

 

[jfleisher]

The Addison : Dominion Homes

That's it! Although there are some differences, its a good starting place. Thank you so much!

 

[YourMomIsANinja]

That's it! Although there are some differences, its a good starting place. Thank you so much!

No problem. I am in the same boat but can’t even find the name of our floor plan. Hope it’s helpful, I registered just to reply to you bc I understand the frustration! Good luck!

 

[nadogail]

My Condominium Building had a fire in one unit over the Car Port and common parking area. The city had the prints on file but would not release them because the design copyrighted by the Architect. They were desired to reduce the cost of repair of the damaged unit.

Fortunately the Architect was still alive and authorized the release of the microfilmed prints to the Condominium Association for a one time use to reduce the cost of the repairs. Without the release the prints would have been necessary to be redrawn and a new engineering approval would have been required.

We were fortunate that the original developer was able to reconnect us with the Architect and although he was declining in competency, his wife told him it was OK to sign the release I took to my meeting with him.

 

[Zeke]

Engineering requirements change. ^^^You were lucky.

 

[yeldogt]

My Condominium Building had a fire in one unit over the Car Port and common parking area. The city had the prints on file but would not release them because the design copyrighted by the Architect. They were desired to reduce the cost of repair of the damaged unit.

Fortunately the Architect was still alive and authorized the release of the microfilmed prints to the Condominium Association for a one time use to reduce the cost of the repairs. Without the release the prints would have been necessary to be redrawn and a new engineering approval would have been required.

We were fortunate that the original developer was able to reconnect us with the Architect and although he was declining in competency, his wife told him it was OK to sign the release I took to my meeting with him.

See my post above .... actually brought this up with the HOA in a condo I own at the beach. Did they have the full stamped plans for the various buildings and how is the insurance coverage ... it has code but not being able to fix w/o plans is different. The guy looked at me as if I had two heads. Until I ran into that fire situation it was not something I ever even thought of .... it's the stuff you don't know that gets you.

The complex is a group of buildings and each building has four units ----

 

[jfleisher]

Working on the floor plan from what "yourmomisaninja" found...