A builder's showroom selections, drafted into orders for each house with every finish code and valve checked.

Selections reach the showroom desk in many forms: the builder's option sheet for the lot, the consultant's worksheet from the appointment, a designer's list with photos, or an email that swaps one faucet a week later. Someone turns each pick into a model number and finish, adds the valve bodies, drains and other parts the picks depend on, prices the house against the builder's account, and splits it into what goes out for rough-in and what waits for trim.

For the test, AI reads copies of those sheets and drafts the quote and the orders for each house, room by room: model and finish suffix, the rough parts each pick needs, whether it is stocked or special order, and the lead time your records show. A pick it can't pin down, such as a finish the collection isn't made in, goes on a short list for your consultant with the reason. No order is placed and no selection changes.

The finish is part of the model number. Kohler's builder brochure for bathroom sinks and faucets prints its finishes as suffixes: CP for polished chrome, BN for Vibrant Brushed Nickel, 2MB for Vibrant Brushed Moderne Brass, BV for Vibrant Brushed Bronze, BL for matte black. Collections differ: in that brochure the Coralais faucet comes only in chrome and brushed nickel, while Purist lists eight finishes. China carries color codes the same way, -0 for white and -96 for biscuit. A sheet that says brushed nickel throughout has to become a suffix on every line, so the draft writes the full number and marks any pick whose collection doesn't list that finish.

A shower trim needs the right valve behind it. Kohler's spec sheet for its Devonshire Rite-Temp trim lists what it requires: a K-8304 valve and cartridge kit, or a K-8300 rough-in body with either a pressure-balancing cartridge or a thermostatic one. The same sheet calls for a deep rough-in kit when the finished wall sits 3-1/2 to 4-1/4 inches out from the valve. Moen sells its M-CORE trims as 2-Series, 3-Series and 4-Series and tells buyers they can choose the trim's style and finish after the valve is installed. So a buyer may still be choosing trim when the plumber needs the body, and the draft puts each body, cartridge and kit on the rough-in order and marks any trim with no matching valve on the house.

Old sheets carry old numbers. That Kohler sheet says its TS trim replaced the earlier T number, is identical, and ships with adapter kits for both the older Rite-Temp valves and the K-8304 series, and the sheet itself is now stamped discontinued. A builder's standard selection sheet can outlast the products printed on it. The draft marks every number your records show as replaced or discontinued, names the replacement your files give, and leaves the choice with your consultant.

Some houses carry flow limits. California's 2022 CALGreen residential measures cap a showerhead at 1.8 gallons per minute at 80 psi, a bathroom faucet at 1.2 at 60 psi, and a kitchen faucet at 1.8, with a temporary boost to 2.2 allowed if it falls back to 1.8. When one valve runs several showerheads, their combined flow can't pass 1.8 unless only one outlet runs at a time. The Devonshire trim kit ships with a 2.5 gpm showerhead. On a job under rules like these, the draft lists the rated flow of every showerhead, hand shower and faucet, adds up the outlets behind each valve, and marks what doesn't fit for your consultant.

Builders order by the house. Hyphen Solutions, whose SupplyPro portal carries builder purchase orders and job schedules to suppliers, offers a service called SkuSphere to translate builder orders into supplier material lists. However the order reaches you, the draft keys each line to the lot and plan. Special orders get their own lines: one plumbing supplier's FAQ warns that some made-to-order products may not be exchanged, refunded or returned, under the manufacturer's rules. Your reviewer, usually the showroom manager or senior consultant, checks every suffix, valve and trim pair, flow rate and special order against what was really ordered.

When your reviewer says yes against the success criteria, new selection sheets get draft quotes and orders for about 30 days.

Your consultant checks, changes or throws out each draft before anything is ordered, every open pick still goes back through them to the buyer or the builder, and no order reaches a manufacturer without a person's approval.

The live month's price is fixed before you sign. A next job is weighed and priced on its own.