wainscot

[Wil in Norcal]

I have a backround as a builder and to me my definition of waisncot was the wood trim that is often topped by chair rail. On the 1004 there is a section on pg 1 regarding bath wainscot. I asked a few different appraisers and I have got a few different answers. I asked an AR and he agreed with me that waincot is trim, I asked two others appraisers on AR and one AL and they said that bath wainscot referred to the shower surrounds i.e tile, fiberglass etc. Does anynone have a definitive answer as to what wainscot is and a source that defines it in appraisal terms?:Eyecrazy:

 

[Mike Boyd]

Only what I learned 20+years ago with FHA. Bath wainscotting is referring to the tub and shower surrounds. I bought a 100+-year old house a few years ago that had the wood wainscotting that you described in the hall and main bath. It is probably a term that was just passed on through the years and no one ever thought of a better name for the surrounds.

 

[Richard Carlsen]

Must be the holdover of a stuffy nose down Eastern old line appraiser who insisted on getting his two cents worth of old-time nomenclature into the reporting form.

I've always considered it the be what solid material is used to enclose or describe the specific bathing area. For this I use: tub, tub/shower, shower, none.

Never had a question about it.
Bet the UW's don't even know what it means.

 

[PLCG]

I had the same reaction when I started using the form. I think it was originally what you describe. Also, baths in this area used to have tile around the tub and also on the lower portion of the walls in the bath. Now it just goes around the tub area.

 

[Jim Hill]

I think you are right.

Wil in Norcal wrote the following,
I have a backround as a builder and to me my definition of waisncot was the wood trim that is often topped by chair rail.

Wil I also have spend the past 40 years in the building business and I agree with your statement above.

I have also been with other appraisers who started talking about waisncot in a bathroom and I was wondering what they were talking about.

Maybe it means something different in the appraisal business then it does in the building business.

Just my opinion Jim Hill

 

[Non Sequitur]

I think Richard nailed it. Wainscot is defined as "a usually paneled wooden lining of an interior wall (2): a lining of an interior wall irrespective of material b: the lower three or four feet (about one meter) of an interior wall when finished differently from the remainder of the wall". In my market some older homes have bath(room) wainscot but for the most part most contemporary homes have none, per the definition. For the most part I identify the tub/shower trim in the form.

 

[Marcia Langley]

Wil,

You are right about the true meaning of the word but I agree with the others that the form question is about the tub/shower surround.

I think of it as any wall covering from the floor upwards that is different than the rest of the wall. In that respect, one could distinguish between 'room' wainscot and 'bath' wainscot and think of the term 'bath' as the tub/shower and not the whole room.

Then the form field starts making more sense.

 

[3 Putt]

Include an interior photograph. A picture is worth a thousand words!

 

[Chris Colston]

It is a hold over form a very old form, where it was actually defined. The form is asking about the wall surrounding the tub and/or shower. The "form" wants to know is it tile, wall board, fiberglass, etc. It refers to the wall area from the floor to about 4 feet up the wall at and around the tub or shower.

Now can anyone tell me why this is significant to only the bathrooms?

Anybody? Preferably a trainee.

 

[DTB]

Only what I learned 20+years ago with FHA. Bath wainscotting is referring to the tub and shower surrounds. I bought a 100+-year old house a few years ago that had the wood wainscotting that you described in the hall and main bath. It is probably a term that was just passed on through the years and no one ever thought of a better name for the surrounds.

How about if they call it just surround?