Sanitaryware schedule: what goes on it, and how to make one
The bathroom schedule where a wrong row costs a wall: its columns, where each value comes from, and why the plumber needs it before the client has chosen.
A sanitaryware schedule lists everything in a project that water runs through or into. One row per basin, WC, bath, tray, mixer, valve, waste and rail, with the product data and the plumbing facts that the plumber, the client and the supplier each need. It is the FF&E schedule for the bathrooms and the kitchen sink, and it is the schedule where a wrong row costs a wall.
The FF&E schedule answers "which product". The sanitaryware schedule also has to answer "how is it fixed, what does it connect to, what pressure does it need, and which parts go in before the tiles". Those answers sit across the supplier's page, the manufacturer's data sheet and the plan. The schedule is where they come together.
What a sanitaryware schedule is for
The plumber first-fixes from it. That means they need the concealed parts (frames, valve bodies, bath fillers, wastes) weeks before anything visible arrives, along with the set-out heights. The tiler needs the same heights and the cut-outs. The client sees it as the approval document: picture, finish, price. The supplier ships against it and needs the product code and the variant, because the mixer comes in four finishes and the WC in two projections.
Four readers, one document, and two delivery dates. That last part is the sanitaryware schedule's own problem. The parts inside the wall are ordered and fitted while the client is still choosing what they will see.
Sanitaryware schedule columns
A bathroom schedule starts with the product columns of the FF&E schedule: code, name, supplier, brand, product code, dimensions, material, finish, price, source, image. What is an FF&E schedule goes through those. Sanitaryware adds the following.
| Column | Why it is there |
|---|---|
| Location | Which bathroom and which position on the plan. SW-01 on the schedule is SW-01 on the drawing, and a house has four basins that look alike. |
| Mounting | Wall-hung, floor-standing, back-to-wall, countertop, semi-recessed, deck-mounted, wall-mounted. Decides the frame, the pipework and the height, and determines whether a mixer and a basin actually fit together. |
| Tap holes | For basins and baths: none, one, two or three, and the centres when there are two. A wall-mounted mixer needs a basin with no holes. A three-hole basin with a monobloc mixer is a return. |
| Projection | How far the basin, WC or spout reaches from the wall. A short-projection WC in a cloakroom, a spout that reaches the basin's centre. The value most often guessed from the picture instead of read from the page. |
| Outlets | For shower valves: one, two or three, and what each feeds (the head, the handset, the bath). Determines which valve body goes in the wall. |
| Concealed parts | The frame, the cistern, the flush plate, the valve body, the bath filler, the trap. Listed as their own rows with their own codes, because they are ordered first and fitted before the tiles. |
| Pressure | The minimum bar the fitting needs, and whether the system is gravity, unvented or pumped. A low-pressure house with a high-pressure tap is a trickle. |
| Flow | Litres per minute at the stated pressure, for taps and showers. Also the number that tells you whether the hot water keeps up with two showers running. |
| Waste | Slotted or unslotted, click-clack or pop-up, and whether the trap is included. Slotted for a basin with an overflow, unslotted without. A basin with the wrong waste sits full. |
| Set-out heights | The WC frame height, the basin rim, the wall spout, the valve centre, the head. These come from you, not the page, and the tiler wants them on the same sheet as the products. |
| Quantity | Per row, so the totals are right and the plumber orders four traps, not one. |
A residential schedule can drop flow and merge the concealed parts into the row of the fitting they serve. A hotel cannot: forty bathrooms, one wrong valve body, forty walls.
The set-out values no supplier page gives you
Location, mounting height, set-out and quantity are decisions. They come from the plan and from you, and no product page will ever hold them. Mounting type, tap holes, projection, outlets, pressure and waste are facts. They are on the page, usually on the second tab, sometimes only in the PDF, and the variant name carries the finish.
That split is the whole method. Copy the facts, make the decisions, and keep the two out of the same afternoon.
Why a sanitaryware schedule goes wrong by hand
Bathrooms are chosen as sets and bought as parts. A basin, its mixer, its waste and its trap are four product codes from two suppliers, and the picture on the page shows all four together in a finish the client did not pick. So the row gets typed from the picture. The finish comes out as chrome when the choice was brushed nickel. The projection is guessed. The waste is forgotten because it was in the picture but not in the cart.
Then the plumber calls from the first fix. The frame that arrived is the 820 mm one and the WC sits on the 1,120 mm one. The valve body is a two-outlet and the client wants a handset. Each of those is a row that was right on the page and wrong on the sheet, and each one is now a wall to open.
A bathroom schedule for one house (four bathrooms and a cloakroom) is around thirty rows with eleven product values each. Typed by hand from the pages, that is an afternoon, and it is the afternoon where the concealed parts get missed.
A sanitaryware schedule the plumber can trust
Keep the rows in one place. Give the concealed parts their own rows with their own codes, next to the fitting they serve, so the first-fix order is a filter on the schedule rather than a second list. Keep the source link on every row so that a question from site is answered by the page, not by memory. Mark which values came from the page and which you entered yourself. When the client changes the mixer finish, one row changes and every print follows.
That is what Intspec does for the product half. Paste the supplier links for the basins, the mixers, the frames and the wastes, let Intspec fill the product values with a mark on each one and the source a click away, and print the plumber's table and the client's cards from the same board. The heights and the locations stay yours, in their own columns. You still check every value. You just stop typing them.
How to make a sanitaryware schedule
Start from the plan and number the positions, one code per fitting, before you collect a single link. Then paste the links into Intspec, the visible part and its concealed parts together, and let it fill the product columns from the pages. Add the set-out heights from the drawing. Print the plumber's table and read it once as the plumber would. If a row does not say how it is mounted, how many holes it has, what pressure it needs and what goes in the wall first, it is not finished. Then print the cards and read them as the client. If a row shows a finish they did not choose, the picture was copied and the variant was not.