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Rooms & Line Items

Add a room mid-estimate

Add a room in a click with the Add room button, or tell Wave about it and let Wave scope and price it for you.

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Missed a room? Add one in a click, or tell Wave about it and let Wave scope and price it for you. Use Add room when you want an empty section to fill in yourself, and chat when you want Wave to do the scoping.

Both happen inside the job. Open Jobs, open the job, and go to the Estimates tab. Wave's chat sits beside it on desktop. On a phone, switch the job's view to Chat when you want to talk to Wave, then back to Estimates to see the result.

Add a room on the estimate

  1. Scroll to the bottom of the rooms, just above the grand total.
  2. Click Add room.
  3. A new, empty room appears with its name ready to edit. Type the name and press Enter. On a phone, the Rename room window opens so you can name it.

From there, add line items yourself (press N on desktop for a new line item) or keep working in chat.

Add room is available when the estimate is unlocked and Wave isn't working on it.

Ask Wave in chat

Describe the room and what happened to it. Rough details in the same message speed things up:

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

Wave asks a few focused questions about the room if it needs to, then builds it out with priced line items, the same way it scoped the original rooms. The estimate total updates as the room fills in.

Set a room's size

Tell Wave the dimensions in chat, for example "the laundry room is 8 by 6", and the room header shows the square footage. A room you add by hand has no size until you tell Wave.

Rooms in multi-unit losses

If the loss spans multiple units, tell Wave which unit the new room belongs to ("the kitchen and bath are in Unit 2B"). Rooms group under unit headers with per-unit subtotals. See Estimate a multi-unit loss.

Rename, reorder and undo

  • Renaming. On desktop, click the room title once to edit it, or right-click the room header and choose Edit room name. On a phone, tap the title. See Rename a room.
  • Order. Drag a room by its grip on desktop, or open the header's Room actions menu and choose Move up or Move down. General starts at the top, and you can move it the same ways. See Reorder rooms and line items.
  • Undo. You can undo adding a room with ⌘Z (Ctrl+Z) on desktop.

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