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Flooring Contractors

Site and material software for flooring contractors

Every square metre is visible, and every defect is yours.

Flooring is the finish everyone walks on and inspects. Material arrives by batch and breaks easily, the area laid each day is what you bill, and level, joints and shade are judged at handover — often by someone counting defects one tile at a time.

Flooring ContractorsHow a day runs on buildcontrol
1
Material is issued to the site
Tiles, stone and adhesive booked against the site, with batch details.
2
Crews are marked present
Layers, helpers and subcontract gangs, per person per day.
3
The day’s work is logged
Area laid, floor by floor, recorded from site.
4
Finish is checked as work proceeds
Level, joints and shade inspected and photographed against the site.
5
Snags are cleared before handover
The list, the photographs and the rectification sit on the project.
The problem

What actually goes wrong

These are the four things that come up in almost every conversation with a flooring contractor.

Breakage and wastage are invisibleTiles leave the store by the box and break on site. Without issues and returns per site, wastage only surfaces when the closing stock does not add up.
Shade and batch get mixedMaterial from two batches on one floor shows in daylight, long after the boxes are gone and nobody remembers what went where.
Billing waits on measurementThe area laid each day is the bill. When it is reported by phone and measured later, payment slips while both sides re-measure.
Snag lists arrive at handoverHollow tiles, level issues and damaged edges appear as one long list at the end, with no record of what was checked while the work was running.
Modules that matter most

Start with these four

buildcontrol has eleven modules, but you do not need all of them on day one. For a flooring contractor, these carry the weight.

Material Management

Tiles, stone and adhesive issued to each site with batch details, and returns and breakage booked against the same job, so wastage per site is visible while the work is still running.

Explore module

Daily Worksheet

A dated log of the area laid each day, floor by floor, so what you report and bill comes from the site record.

Explore module

Quality Control

Level, joint and shade checks with dated photographs as the work proceeds, and a snag list raised and cleared before handover.

Explore module

Attendance Management

Layers, helpers and subcontract gangs marked per person per day, so wages and gang bills are checked against a record instead of a headcount.

Explore module
Add later, once the first four are running
  • Payment Management, for supplier dues and subcontractor payments against each project
  • Equipment Management, for cutters, grinders and polishing machines moving between sites
  • Task Management, where setting-out drawings and layouts sit with the task they belong to
Probably not for you: CRM rarely applies to a flooring contractor, since it is built for developers selling units rather than for winning and running contract work.
How it runs

One day, end to end

1

Material goes out against the site

Tiles, stone and adhesive are issued from the store to a named site, with batch details recorded as they go out.

2

Crews are marked in the morning

Layers, helpers and gang members are recorded per person, per site, per day.

3

The day’s work is logged from site

The supervisor records the area laid and where, with photographs, as the work happens.

4

Finish is checked while the floor is still open

Level, joints and shade are recorded against the site, so a defect is caught on the floor it is on rather than at handover.

5

Handover is already documented

Snags, rectification and photographs are on the project when the client walks the floor.

Who uses it

Every role, one system

Access is controlled by role, so people see what they need and nothing else.

RoleWhat they do in buildcontrol
Proprietor / DirectorEvery site, material consumption and dues in one view
Project ManagerProgress by site, crews deployed, snags outstanding
Site Supervisor / ForemanDaily area log, attendance, level and finish checks with photographs
StorekeeperTiles and adhesive received, issued to site, returns and breakage
AccountsSupplier and subcontractor dues, payments made
Client / Main ContractorRead-only progress and quality visibility
Questions

Questions we get from flooring contractors

No, and it is not meant to. Setting-out and estimation stay in the tools you already use. buildcontrol records what happened on site — material issued, area laid, checks carried out and snags cleared — so the job is documented as it is built.
Yes. Issues and returns are booked against the site they belong to, so what went out and what came back is visible per job while the work is running, not only in a closing stock count.
Yes. Batch details are recorded with the material issued to a site, so a question about shade months later is answered from the record rather than from memory.
Yes. Access is by role, and a client or main contractor can be given read-only visibility of progress and quality on their project without seeing anything else.
Yes. Each site is its own project with its own material, crews and records, and reports run across all of them, so you can see every site without opening each one.
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