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Add a room mid-estimate

Adding a room opens a separate chat thread tab beside Main with an abbreviated per-room interview. At the end you choose Yes (Include) or No (Discard). Adding a room can slightly reprice the others.

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If you realize mid-estimate that you missed a room — "the laundry room got water in it too" — the supported path is through chat. Wave opens a separate thread for the new room so it doesn't tangle with your Main conversation.

How to add a room

In the chat, type a message describing what you want to add. Helpful to include rough sizing in the same message:

"I missed an area. Can we add the laundry room? It's 8 feet by 6 feet."

When Wave detects the room-add intent, three things happen:

  1. A new chat thread opens as a separate tab next to the Main tab. The new tab is labeled with the room name ("Laundry Room"), shows a blue dot indicator, and has an × close button.
  2. The URL updates with a ?thread_id=<uuid> parameter — that's the address of the new thread.
  3. An abbreviated per-room interview begins in the new thread.

You can switch between Main and the new room tab at any time. The Main thread is paused while you're in the room thread.

Don't use the "+" next to Show Codes

The "+" button next to "Show Codes" in the workspace is currently non-functional. It looks like it should add a room. It doesn't reliably do that. Use chat instead.

This is tracked in Known issues.

What the abbreviated interview asks

The room thread runs a shorter version of the per-room interview. Project-level questions (insured, address, category) aren't repeated; the thread is scoped to the new room only. Answer in whatever form is natural (Answer formats). The merge prompt appears when Wave has what it needs to price the room.

When Wave asks for room dimensions, give length × width × height. Wave does not ask for raw square footage; the three numbers are what the drying math needs.

The merge prompt

At the end of the interview, Wave shows a merge prompt:

✅ Perfect! I've collected all the information for the [Laundry Room]. Would you like to include this room in your estimate?

A) Yes — Include it

B) No — Discard it

If you choose A (Include)

  • The thread tab closes
  • You return to the Main tab
  • Wave posts a success message: "✅ Laundry Room has been successfully added to your estimate"
  • The new room appears as its own section in the right pane, with its full set of line items
  • The estimate total updates

If you choose B (Discard)

  • The thread tab closes
  • Nothing is added to the estimate
  • The interview is discarded — answers are not kept

You can re-open a room-add thread later if you change your mind.

Heads up: small repricing on other rooms

Adding a new room can cause small downward repricing of other rooms on the estimate. In our verified Jordan Park scenario, adding the Laundry Room moved the Hallway from $309.81 to $305.43 — a drop of a few dollars.

This is expected behavior, not a bug. Some line items are sized against the whole estimate (e.g., shared equipment that now serves more rooms), so adding scope can lower the per-room allocation even as the Grand Total goes up. Spot the new Grand Total in the Estimate Summary — that's the number you care about.

If you see a per-room number move after a room-add and you're not sure why, that's the most likely explanation.

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