First off, thank you to everyone who helped me with my appeal for graphics for my specifications presentation. I started off with “Grumpy Cat” and ended with “Superman” (specifications save the day!) and had lots of other things in between.
I’ve been asked this question and I figured I would tap into the collective wisdom of this group.
Page Format has Accessories as an article heading under Part 2. How do you decide when an item is listed as a paragraph or subparagraph under Materials, Components, and so on, versus placing it under the Accessories article heading?
I’m not sure that I understand your question. Can you restate with a specific example? Thanks.
I think what Tracy is asking is when is something considered an “accessory” and when is it a “component” or simply part of the product materials.
It seems to me it becomes an accessory when it is either not integral to the product or its use / installation. If the product / material can be installed and properly used without this “thing”, the thing is an accessory.
What comes to mind right now is something like “slat wall” and the various hooks and, well, accessories that can be used with it. You don’t need a specific one of those to install the product, yet they are important to list so a price can be applied to the whole.
Is that about it, Tracy, or do I have it all wrong?
It sounded like the question was more basic to PageFormat.
I can list Accessories as a Paragraph under an Article for each of a number of items, especially for a Section such as Visual Display Units, if I have a number of different types of items each of which has a different list of accessories. I believe this makes it easier for the Contractor to determine which accessories go with each item. In another Section such as Roofing I might put Accessories under their own Article since everything is presumably part of a single system.
Hi Lynn, you’ve got it.
I was asked the question by a college friend of a friend who attended the education session last Friday who is working on a section for her professional practice course.
When you look at commercially produced master specification systems, it does appear to depend on the section (as Ken states) as to whether pieces and parts of a system are listed as a component item versus accessory.