Finish schedule quotes, read from the tile section into a worksheet your salesperson can price.

A spec quote draws on paper from several places. The finish schedule in the drawings names each tile by a type code and a room. The tiling section in the project manual says what each code means: material, size, finish, slip requirement, trim shapes, setting and grout products, and the extra stock the owner keeps. Addenda change some of it, and a contractor's notes may bring quantities. Your salesperson reads all of that into a worksheet, then prices the worksheet against your lines.

In the test, AI reads copies of the same documents and drafts the worksheet: one line per tile type with every requirement in the section's own words, the setting and grout materials for each installation, attic stock on separate lines, every item named by brand, and a list of questions for your salesperson. It sets no price and chooses no product. Your reviewer compares each draft with the worksheet your desk actually used.

One size can mean two things. New York State's master tiling section defines face size as the actual tile with spacer lugs left out, and module size as the face size plus the joint shown. Massillon City Schools' tiling section for its New Westside PK-3 Elementary, dated July 2023, lists its floor porcelain, type PFT, at a 12 by 24 module and its wall base, PWB, at 6 by 12. New York also writes face size variation as a field: calibrated tile is sorted at the factory to narrow it, rectified tile has its edges ground, and a narrow joint may call for the second. Glazes take ASTM C242's terms, bright, mat, semimat or vellum, each opaque or clear, plus crystalline. The draft keeps every value in the spec's words and labels each size face or module.

Some codes live on one document only. Massillon's six wall tiles, CWT-1 through CWT-6, cite the 2012 edition of A137.1 and leave color to the finish material schedule. Its edge profiles are T-1 for floors and T-3 for walls. Its installation schedule then calls for tile PWT at the shower areas, a code the section's product article never defines. New York ties trim to the setting bed: a base or wainscot cap is a bead bullnose over portland cement mortar and a surface bullnose over thinset, and its editor's note says tapered transition pieces come from only some makers. The draft lists every code it finds, the page it came from, and each code that shows up in one place only.

Setting materials follow the method. New York's installation schedule gives each installation a TCNA method, such as F113 for thinset on concrete or F111 for a mortar bed over a cleavage membrane. For mortar beds, A108.1A is wet-set, A108.1B is cured-bed and A108.1C leaves the choice to the contractor, and the bond coat for a cured bed appears only under the last two. The same section notes that A118.4 has nothing distinguishing medium-bed mortars from other modified thinsets, though they are typically used for large format tile, so it asks for a product its maker approves at a 5/8 inch application. Where the contractor still holds the choice of method, the draft lists both sets of materials and asks.

Grout lines can contradict each other. New York says sanded grout is generally for joints 1/8 inch and wider and unsanded for 1/8 inch and narrower, so the joint width on the drawings decides the bag. Los Angeles World Airports' tiling guide specification, revised in May 2014, lists polymer-modified grout under A118.7 in its products article, then adds a note that every restroom gets epoxy grout and that latex grout isn't allowed there. Massillon gives its grout color as one maker's color number, which another maker's line has to match. When a section disagrees with itself, the draft carries both readings and leaves the choice to your salesperson.

Slip, mounting and extra stock each get a line. ANSI A326.3, in the revision TCNA announced in February 2022, has makers place hard flooring in one or more of five product use classes: interior dry, interior wet, interior wet plus, exterior wet, and oils and greases. TCNA's release names the German ramp test of DIN 51130 and the pendulum tests of BS 7976 and ASTM E303, beside A326.3's own DCOF test, as ways to settle a class. New York keeps back-mounted and edge-mounted sheets out of pools, exteriors and wet areas unless the maker approves that use in writing, and its extra materials article wants tile, trim and grout for every type, color, pattern and size, drawn from the production runs installed. Your reviewer will look first at sizes read as the wrong kind, codes found on one page only, materials chosen for an undecided method, grout that ignores a note, and attic stock missing a color.

With your reviewer's yes, new finish schedules get the same reading for about 30 days.

Every worksheet waits for your salesperson, who prices it and answers the contractor the way your desk does now.

Drafts and worksheets stay side by side on live work. Any further job is your decision, priced separately.