[CAUT] Door width for new building plans

[Alan Eder]

Hi Dennis,


You could lay things out on any open floor: use masking tape on the floor to represent the walls and doorway and paper or cardboard to represent the footprint of the piano you will be moving.  Then just move the "piano" through the "hallway and door" in your mock up (or not!).


Alan Eder


-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Johnson <johnsond at stolaf.edu>
To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thu, Nov 11, 2010 6:43 am
Subject: [CAUT] Door width for new building plans


Hello-

Does anyone have experience or advice to offer concerning what would be the minimum doorway width for easy moving of pianos up to 7 feet long with a 5' wide hallway?   That is the question I was asked this morning by our Fine Arts Dean.  We are finalizing plans for the new complex and my suggestion was a 32" door is recommended and that should handle the moves.  Can anyone confirm or correct that?  The largest percussion ensemble room will get a doorway extender, or whatever they are called, and the main hallway looks to be about 11' feet wide, but the practice room hallway is only 5'.  Widening that means smaller rooms.  I don't know what the radius would be for moving a piano in or out.   If they come back with only 30" doors should I be concerned?  

thanks!

Dennis Johnson
St. Olaf College



 
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