Bath Wainscott In Report

[Ross (CO)]

All this brings back that moment of fun when I recently read a realty agent's description for their listing having many newly-painted rooms within the house.......and "Wayne's coating" in the dining room.

 

[Jim Davis]

I have a book titled "Cyclopedia of Building Terms." I can't find a date on it, but it's old.

"Wainscot - The facing material applied to the lower part of an interior wall contrasting with that of the upper part."

I know that nowadays we tend to use the tub surround material as the wains. That brings up another question - is it fiberglass, acrylic, plastic?

Edit: referencing the original post, it is not what the tub is made of.
Wainscot - cast iron with claw feet?

 

[Nancy Wyatt]

When I appraised in upstate NY we always described it as Doug does-because most homes had wainscoting. In Colorado, we write in what surrounds the tub-most baths are drywall, and the tub enclosure would be different.

I never questioned it much. I just do these things as my peers do them and by what is expected of my in my marketplace.

I guess that both may be considered wainscoting and you could further describe the bathroom walls which may or may not have it, and the tub enclosure material.

 

[Otis Key]

No offense to anyone about the 1/2 wall definition. I knew about that years ago. However, if you look at the appraisal form it states "Bath Wainscot" which, if I remember correctly from many years ago when the URAR came and there was a Fannie seminar, we were told that it was intended for the surround above the tub and/or shower.

The 1/2 wall situation is typically in dining rooms with chair rails to stop the chairs from banging holes into the walls when everyone (the kids) shove back from the table.

 

[CANative]

Otis, when I mentioned the 1/2 wall I'm talking about tile, marble, plastic or marlite that surrounds the tub on 3 sides. Not decorative wainscoting.

I think what is wanted in this section is what are the materials that will protect the walls from water.

 

[CANative]

BTW, one of my bathrooms has real wainscotting.

My first attempt at a bathroom remodel.

 

[Otis Key]

I know Greg. I was responding to Robert Anderson's definition posted and with the suggests of Jim & Doug. I had already figured out that we were on the same line of thought.

BTW, I'm still wondering why this is URGENT?

Also, I just noticed your picture. Nice job.

 

[Edd Gillespie]

Originally posted by Greg Boyd@Aug 7 2005, 09:32 AM
The bath surrounds (wainscotting) can speak to the quality of interior finishes, the degree of updating in older houses and possibly flag potential maintenace or other problems in a room with lots of water in it.

Well sure quality of construction and condition are adjustment items that are pretty clearly germaine to value. I was trying to say, can you isolate wainscoting (or surround or whatever) and say it alone affects your market? Of course the wainscoting presence/absence, condition, material, etc. is indicative of quality and condition of the whole house just like the front door is or the windows are. No doubt people do become emotionally involved in their bath rooms, but can you figure out whether it was the wainscoting or the whole enchilada. And that brings up another not-too-far-off-the-subject question, Does anybody have market data that demonstrates the bathroom quality or condition alone, regardless of what the wainscoting is or whether it is wainscoting at all, was a strong determinative factor in the price paid for the house?

Isn't interesting how our language is in evolution? It seems the real estate industries are in more rapid evolution than some others. "Wayne's coating"? Next it will be a coat room with plumbing facilities. You just wait, it'll happen. Then the answers Fannie will be looking for will be fur, wool, cashmere, trench, rain, etc.

 

[Edd Gillespie]

Originally posted by Greg Boyd@Aug 7 2005, 11:11 AM
My first attempt at a bathroom remodel.

That looks good Greg. Is it marble?

 

[CANative]

No marble in my house. It's an old farmhouse built in the 1880's. The bathroom was a nightmare when we moved in. A giant room with a partition wall that you had to squeeze around to get to the old pink bathtub (now out in the yard with flowers in it.)

We divided the space in two creating a 2nd bathroom for my bedroom. My neighbor put in the tile floors (tiles from a close out sale) My son-in-law and I redid this bathroom using a picture from a home improvement book. Inexpensive jetted tub, with cermic tile decking (tiles on sale from the same place as the flooring) I used beader board and molding to put wainscotting all around the bathroom and bath surrounds. It kind of matches the original wainscotting in the rest of the house. Even the little nook above the bath is the same beader board and kind of goes along with the them. I designed the nook for bath stuff, but my wife kind of foofoo'd the bathroom with plants and stupid girly stuff.