Wainscot Standards

Explanation of Each Wainscot Standard:

  • Frame Thickness: Enter the thickness of the door frame.
  • Panel Thickness: Enter the thickness of the door panel.
  • The following 4 standards for left & right stile and top & bottom rail widths should be given finished sizes. If you cut these pieces oversize and then trim small amounts off when the panel groove is cut and the edge detail is put on, there will be other standards to use to enter that information so your cut-list is correct.
    • Left Stile Width: Enter the finished width of the left stile.
    • Right Stile Width: Enter the finished width of the right stile.
    • Top Rail Width: Enter the finished width of the top rail.
    • Bottom Rail Width: Enter the finished width of the bottom rail.
  • Panel Size Less: Enter the amount you want to subtract off your panels to allow for expansion and contraction here.
  • Groove Depth: Enter the depth you cut the groove in your stiles and rails to receive the panel here. You may refer to this cut as a "cope" depth.
  • Amount Trimmed-Off with Groove: Enter the amount you will trim off your stiles rails when you run your groove for your panel.
  • Amount Trimmed-Off with Edge Detail: Enter the amount you will trim off your stiles rails when you run your edge detail on your doors.
  • Add Center Rail When Height >: Doors panels will often bow if they get too large in size. To help eliminate this problem, many shops want to add a center rail into the door if the door exceeds a certain size. Enter the size of door that when exceeded you want the program to automatically place a center rail.
  • Center Rail Width: Enter the width you want the center rails to be when the program adds them here.
  • Wainscot Center Rail Width: Enter the width you want the center rails (horizontal face frame piece) to be.
  • Wainscot Mullion Width: Enter the width you want the mullions (vertical frame piece) to be.
  • Wainscot Rail / Mullion Thickness: Enter the thickness of the Wainscot parts.