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2026-09-22

Every surface says which tile goes on it — and the room notes got short

The tile now shows on the surface itself, not just in the note. And the note stopped reprinting the spec sheet at you — no column headings, no repeated finishes, and nobody's sales rep.

Every surface says which tile goes on it — and the room notes got short

Two things about what you read after a drawing set is analyzed, both off the same run.

The tile shows on the surface

A room off a builder's package used to give you a grid of surfaces with a size on each one — 12x24, 2x6, 12x12 — and nothing saying which tile. The product was in the room's note, once, for whichever surface happened to be first. On a primary bath with four different tiles in it, that's one tile named and three you had to go and look up.

Now every surface carries the tile under its name: Bison Brick 2x8 (Craftsmans Court). A quiet grey line, the same place the sheet tag sits, so the grid reads like a takeoff instead of a list of measurements. Where the schedule specified two tiles for one surface — an alternative, a border — it shows the first and +1 more.

Open a surface to put a size on it and the same line is at the top, labelled Tile, with the sheet tag beside it. It's there to read, not to edit: the schedule is the builder's spec, and the way to check it is the tag, which opens the sheet the line came off.

The notes stopped reprinting the sheet at you

A spec sheet is a table, and its cells repeat their own column headings. Read literally, that's what was landing in your room notes:

• Vanity wall: VANITY WALL TILE · NAME: BISON BRICK SIZE: 2" X 8" · (CRAFTSMANS COURT) · brick stack stacked · brick · 2" · IMAGE: VERTICAL STACKED | COLOR/FINISH: CUSTOM COLOR: CARBON | GROUT: MAPEI 5047 CHARCOAL | SALES REP INFO: …

Same facts, now:

• Vanity wall: Bison Brick 2x8 (Craftsmans Court) · Vertical stacked · Color: Custom Color Carbon · Grout: Mapei 5047 Charcoal · Lead time will be longer due to custom color — order early

Four things changed to get there.

  • The tile is called what it's called. NAME: and SIZE: are the sheet's column headings, not part of the product. The size joins the name where you'd say it.
  • Each fact is said once. The pattern used to come out as brick stack stacked, and the size and material were printed again beside a name that already contained both.
  • Nobody's sales rep is on your room card. A vendor rep's name, e-mail or phone number is dropped wherever the sheet tucked them. A lead-time warning is not — order early on the custom colour is exactly what this note is for.
  • Nothing is invented and nothing is lost. The sheet is still a tap away behind the little page marker, with every word on it.

The notes come out under half the length they were. Everything that reads your notes — the scope draft especially — reads the shorter one, which means it's reading the job instead of somebody's contact details.

Sizes with inch marks read properly now

One real bug fixed along the way. A size printed as 2" X 8" was landing on the surface as 2" — the inch mark between the number and the × stopped it being read as a pair at all. Same for 12" X 12". Those surfaces now read 2x8 and 12x12, and a thickness on the end (X 1/2") is understood as a thickness rather than swallowing the size.

If a project already has the old sizes on it, re-reading the documents puts them right.

Rooms without a printed number say so

When a sheet draws a room but never prints a number for it, we make an internal key to keep track of it. That key was leaking onto the screen as though it were a room number — Room AI-PRIMARYBATH-P2-1. It isn't one, and you won't find it anywhere on the drawings. Those rooms now just say which floor they're on.