Wainscot band

A contrasting band of steel around the lower walls, drawn to its real height and counted as its own panel line.

What it is

A spec toggle with a height. Wall skin rectangles are split at the wainscot boundary so the band and the field above it are separate panels with separate colours and separate BOM lines.

Also called: wainscot · two tone walls · lower wall accent

See it
Wainscot band
New lead 3
Marlin Hoover
$47k
Delia Yoder
$33k
Sutter Kline
$51k
Contacted 2
Sutter Kline
$44k
Ronan Petsch
$28k
Ivy Brubaker
$44k
Estimate 2
Ivy Brubaker
$55k
Gideon Alt
$54k
Sold 4
Marlin Hoover
$61k
Delia Yoder
$63k
Sutter Kline
$45k
Sidewall elevation with a 3ft Rustic Red-brown wainscot under Light Stone field steel, and the two BOM lines beside it. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1Wall decomposition splits rects at the horizontal wainscot line before openings are punched.
  2. 2The takeoff emits a Wainscot panel line grouped by band height, separate from the field wall steel.
  3. 3Wainscot has its own swatch palette and its own default binding (board-and-batten 26ga) in the material catalogue.
  4. 4The stone-veneer service measures its band against the wainscot height when one is enabled.
Why we built it

Wainscot is one of the most common post-frame upsells and the one most often eyeballed in a quote, because pricing it properly means splitting every wall's steel at the band height. The wall skin is split at the band, so the two colours are drawn correctly and bought correctly, each at its own height. What the customer sees on the render is what the yard sends.

The problem
  • Wainscot treated as a colour note rather than a separate panel run.
Sound familiar?
What you get
The band is drawn at its real height and priced at its real area.

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