What does this architectural symbol mean?

[Tony L]

I'm checking through the drawings my architectural technician has done for me.  Can somebody let me know what this architectural symbol means please?  It's used in the detail drawing, below.

[Pocster]

Looks like Sputnik 1 has landed . But it’s unlikely to be an architectural requirement for plans .

[DamonHD]

It may be @Pocster's WC seen from above with him on it...

[Nestor]

Sack trolley, clock hands or the image is a standardized symbol (IEC 60417 - 6284) used in technical documentation. 

No idea.

 

[SteamyTea]

Is it the new name for Prince Andrew.

[Adrian Walker]

It’s similar to a machine surface symbol. 

[Nickfromwales]

If it’s anything like a lighting design I’ve just seen, it’s a floor level up light. 

 

Wouldn’t it be easier to just ask the author? 👀🤔

[SteamyTea]

33 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said:

Wouldn’t it be easier to just ask the author

What.  Take all the fun away.

[Nickfromwales]

1 hour ago, SteamyTea said:

What.  Take all the fun away.

Yes, lol 😂. 

[Tony L]

14 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

Is it the new name for Prince Andrew.

 

Another TAFKAP.  Could be.  The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince.

 

My new name for him is Andy Battenberg.  Being a clever chap, you will already know, @SteamyTea: his ancestors anglicised the Battenberg name because they no longer wanted to be associated with Mr Kipling's best selling cake.

[Tony L]

I'll ask the arch tec, although I think @Nickfromwales is probably right - thanks Nick.  Strange though, that there's no other lighting shown anywhere else.

 

I asked here first, because I my list of requests for change & questions is already so long, I wanted to slim it down a little, & also do my best to understand what's going in these drawings before I go back to the arch tec to ask for changes.

[Nickfromwales]

1 minute ago, Tony L said:

I'll ask the arch tec, although I think @Nickfromwales is probably right - thanks Nick.  Strange though, that there's no other lighting shown anywhere else.

 

I asked here first, because I my list of requests for change & questions is already so long, I wanted to slim it down a little, & also do my best to understand what's going in these drawings before I go back to the arch tec to ask for changes.

Many heads always better than one, imho.

[Nickfromwales]

8 minutes ago, Tony L said:

 

Another TAFKAP.  Could be.  The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince.

 

My new name for him is Andy Battenberg.  Being a clever chap, you will already know, @SteamyTea: his ancestors anglicised the Battenberg name because they no longer wanted to be associated with Mr Kipling's best selling cake.

He takes the biscuit. Does that count?

[SteamyTea]

14 minutes ago, Tony L said:

Mr Kipling's best selling cake

I heard that his misses liked being the filling in his sandwich.

Edited yesterday at 17:53 by SteamyTea

[Pocster]

4 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

Many heads always better than one, imho.

🙄😉

[DevilDamo]

Just ask the designer. At the same time, get them to amend the “fascia” vents label to “soffit” vents.

[Tony L]

Thanks for that, @DevilDamo.  He's made many sloppy errors all over these drawings.  I'll also ask for the 72.5mm insulated plaster board, which is the only insulation running along the length of the top edge of the (over 4m long) steel beam, to be doubled up (if not tripled or replaced with something better), as think this would be sucking heat out of the house all winter long, if it were left as it is.  72.5mm Kooltherm K118 is only 60mm of phenolic + 12.5mm plaster.  I don't think 60mm insulation is enough here, is it?

 

& my brief said, "hidden gutter".  What he's drawn is something that pokes out half a mile from the roof edge & is very obviously a wide gutter.

Edited 2 hours ago by Tony L

[Nickfromwales]

It has to be wide, as it's so shallow though? If it was narrower and deeper then the rafter would snap in half and that's not any of an improvement is it lol?  

 

Doesn't look as if it could be any higher up with a 200mm rafter either, so a solution that loses you the least internal skeiling height most prob, preserving GIA.

 

1 hour ago, Tony L said:

is it?

Airtightness trumps insulation here afaic, so for the last one we only put 20mm of XPS (Jackoboard) over a steel column to stave off cold bridging, then bonded the plasterboard to that. Was a huge uplift to the wood the (sacked) builder just fixed to the steel. Not much needed to address the steel tbh.

 

You can't double or triple the insulated plasterboard, just fit as much depth as is practicable in rigid insulation board (less PB), then a service batten and plasterboard to that, which should do the job