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2026-09-22

The niche, the bench, and the wall that only goes to 42 inches

Shower niches and benches drawn on the elevations now come to you as a one-tap count, and a wall the drawings clad to four feet or less lands as a wainscot instead of full-height wall tile.

The niche, the bench, and the wall that only goes to 42 inches

Two things the drawings were telling us that never reached your bid.

Niches and benches come off the elevations now

Almost every shower elevation draws a niche, a bench, or both, and names them right there on the sheet — TOP OF NICHE, BENCH HEIGHT AFF. Until now none of that reached your rooms. The reason was a fair one: a 16" niche isn't twenty square feet of anything, and offering it to you as an area would have been a tap spent on nothing.

So the wrong thing was being offered. What a shower elevation actually says about a niche is that there is one — and that's what you get now:

Bath 3 niche: the shower elevations draw 1 — add it?

One tap and it's on the room, with the printed callout quoted underneath so you can check it against the sheet. It's a count, not an area — the tile on the niche is already inside the shower-wall figure, the same way you'd write it on a bid yourself ("shower tile, including one bench, one niche, and miter"). Adding it adds the work, never a second helping of square footage.

A few things it's careful about:

  • One shower drawn four times is one niche. A set repeats the same callout on every view; they're counted once.
  • A callout that names two — (2) NICHES — counts two.
  • It only lands where there's a shower. A window seat drawn in a closet and a display recess in a great room are not shower benches, and neither turns into one.
  • Nothing is priced until you tap. Same as every other size read off a drawing: it arrives as a suggestion with the sheet beside it.

They show up on the plan sizes sheet as ordinary rows alongside the areas, so you can take a whole job's worth in one go. Once you accept one it reads as 1, not "1 sq ft" — on every kind of project, including a whole-house package — because one niche is one niche.

A wall clad to 42 inches is a wainscot

A designer's schedule says VANITY WALL TILE, so the tile lands under wall tile. The elevation prints 12"X24" STONE TO CLAD WALL 42" H — and you'd bid that as wainscot to 42", because that's what it is.

Now so does BidCraft. When the only tile height a room's drawings print for that field is four feet or less, the size lands on wainscot with the printed height on it, and the schedule's own product moves across with it. Your line and our line are the same line again.

It leaves alone anything it shouldn't:

  • A field the drawings run to six feet is a wall of tile and stays one.
  • If one sheet shows a band and another shows a full-height wall, the room has both and nothing moves.
  • A number you typed yourself always wins — a drawing never moves it.
  • A room whose schedule names a wainscot and a vanity wall keeps both. Those are two real fields in two real places, and picking one for you would be guessing.

What to do

Nothing, on a new project — upload the set and the counts and the band arrive with the rest. On a project you've already analysed, re-run Analyze plans and the new reads come in with everything else you've already confirmed left exactly as it is.