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Site and material software for plumbing contractors

A line is tested once, then buried for the life of the building.

Lines run inside slabs, shafts and walls and are covered as soon as the civil team is ready. Fittings leave the store in hundreds and pipe leaves by the length. What you can prove at handover — and defend when a wall is opened years later — depends on what was recorded before the line was concealed.

Plumbing ContractorsHow a day runs on buildcontrol
1
Material is issued to the site
Pipe, fittings and valves booked against the site they go to.
2
Crews are marked present
Plumbers, helpers and subcontract gangs, per person per day.
3
The day’s work is logged
Lines run, floor by floor, recorded from site.
4
Lines are tested before they are concealed
Pressure tests recorded and photographed before slabs and walls close.
5
Handover records are ready
Tests, photographs and snags sit on the project for the client.
The problem

What actually goes wrong

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

Fittings disappear between store and sitePipe, elbows, tees and valves go out in bulk. Nobody can say how much went to which floor, what came back, or why the job needed another lot.
Lines are covered before they are checkedThe civil team is ready to pour and the test happens on a promise. When a joint weeps later, there is no dated record of that line ever passing.
Progress is reported, not recorded“Second floor is nearly done” means different things to you and to the client, and the bill waits while both sides argue from memory.
Snags arrive as a phone callA list of leaks and missing fixtures turns up at handover with no history of what was checked, who fixed it, or when.
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 plumbing contractor, these carry the weight.

Material Management

Stock, purchase orders and issues to each site, so pipe, fittings and valves are traced from purchase to the site that used them, with returns booked against the same job.

Explore module

Quality Control

Pressure and leak-test records with dated photographs before lines are concealed, and snags raised and cleared before handover.

Explore module

Daily Worksheet

A dated log of what each site did each day — floors, areas and lines completed — so the progress you report and bill comes from the site record.

Explore module

Attendance Management

Plumbers, 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 test pumps, threading machines and core drills moving between sites
  • Task Management, where riser diagrams and layouts sit with the task they belong to
Probably not for you: CRM rarely applies to a plumbing 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

Pipe, fittings and valves are issued from the store to a named site, so each site’s consumption builds up as it is issued.

2

Crews are marked in the morning

Plumbers, 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 lines run and where, with photographs, while the work is still open.

4

The line is tested before it is concealed

The pressure test is recorded against the site before the slab is poured or the wall is plastered.

5

Handover is already documented

Tests, snags and photographs are on the project when the client or main contractor asks for them.

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 work log, attendance, pressure tests with photographs
StorekeeperPipe and fittings received, issued to site and returned
AccountsSupplier and subcontractor dues, payments made
Client / Main ContractorRead-only progress and quality visibility
Questions

Questions we get from plumbing contractors

No, and it is not meant to. Design, sizing and drawings stay in the tools you already use. buildcontrol records what happens on site — material issued, lines run, tests done and crews present — so the job is documented as it is built.
Yes. Inspections in Quality Control carry checklists and dated photographs, so a line that passed is on record before the slab or the wall closes over it.
Yes. Material is issued against the site it goes to, and returns are booked against the same site, so consumption per site comes from the issue record rather than a stock count at the end.
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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