Groundworks and Excavation Day Sheet
Give one day's digging a record that says what was checked, what was dug and what moved, written on the day rather than reconstructed later.
Trade job forms · TJ-14
A free printable paving job sheet — the areas laid, product and pattern, the dig and sub-base as quoted and as done, days on site and every delivery ticket.
One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
Keep the quoted construction and the actual construction on the same page, so the customer signs for what was built and the job's costs are all in one place.
Paving and driveway contractors, landscapers and groundworkers laying block, slab, resin or tarmac surfaces for domestic customers.
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: One driveway, patio or path from the dig to the last joint: areas, construction, days on site and every ticket.
Quoted beside actual. How deep to dig, what goes in the sub-base and how thick to lay it are the quote's figures and the paving manufacturer's — write them in as quoted, then what was done beside them. Falls and where the water goes are the thing the customer asks about a year later.
Write-on lines: Customer · Address · Started · Finished
Table, 3 rows: Area · Length · Width · Product & colour · Size / thickness · Pattern · Edging
Write-on lines: Dig depth: quoted / actual · Sub-base & depth: quoted / actual · Bedding & jointing · Falls to & drainage fitted
Table, 4 rows: Date · Day / delivery / skip · Who or supplier · Work done or item · Qty / hours · Ticket no.
Signature strip: Customer signature · Print name · Date
Because that depends on the ground, the surface being laid, what will drive on it and the paving manufacturer's own laying instructions. Your quote states the figures for this job; the sheet gives them a blank and puts the actual beside them so the two can be compared.
Give one day's digging a record that says what was checked, what was dug and what moved, written on the day rather than reconstructed later.
Get the boundary conversation written down and signed before the first post goes in, then record exactly what was built where.
Work out what one job actually cost, so the next quote is based on a figure rather than on a feeling about the last one.
Get the customer's signature that the work is done while you are still standing there, with anything outstanding written down rather than remembered differently.
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