You get one pour. The paperwork has to be right before the truck arrives.
Everything on a concrete job is decided early — mix, reinforcing, testing, access — and there is no going back once it is set.
What goes wrong on concrete jobs
A pour that gets pushed for weather moves the crew, the pump and the testing lab, and the schedule behind it never fully recovers.
How the paperwork actually moves
Concrete draws are quantity-based and progress-based at once. Cylinder tests, reinforcing inspection and pump or access charges all have to be documented, or a large single pour becomes a disputed invoice.
Nothing goes out without your say-so. Money and commitments stop at you by default. We write it up, you make the call. That is how the system is wired, not a habit we ask you to build.
The documents that only exist on concrete jobs
A ready-mix truck is the only delivery on a job where the product is made on the way to you. The batch ticket records what actually arrived — slump, air content, water added on site — and it is the sheet that settles a strength argument two months after the pour. Cylinder breaks come back at 7 and 28 days, and they belong to the pay application for that pour, not to a folder nobody opens.
Everything else is an extra that exists only if it was written down at the time: the pump hours, the standby truck, the washout, the after-hours start. Priced later, from memory, they are a discount.
- Batch and delivery tickets filed to the pour, and to the draw they are billed against.
- Mix design submittal and the 7/28-day break schedule, kept with the lab report.
- Pump, standby, washout and after-hours extras approved before the invoice goes out.
Where the licence sits. Work of this kind in California is licensed under the CSLB C-8 – Concrete Contractor, with a B – General Building Contractor licence covering contractors who self-perform the whole structure. Those are the classifications these documents come from.
What we take off your desk
- Draws built and submitted against the schedule of values, with the waivers attached, inside two days.
- Change orders priced and approved before the work proceeds, not argued about afterwards.
- Subcontractor compliance — certificates, licences and waivers tracked, with gaps chased before money moves.
- California deadlines tracked, including preliminary notice and 20-day notices, so lien rights are not lost by a date nobody watched.
- Your customer kept informed, so the person paying the draw knows what they are paying for.
- A named office manager on your account, with a trained office crew behind them and our software doing the reading.
Questions concrete contractors ask
Do you track cylinder testing against the draw?
Yes. The test results are part of the payment record, so a strength question later is answered by the file rather than by memory.
How do you handle weather delays?
Delay notice is written when it happens, with the day recorded, so a schedule extension is a documented event and not a conversation months later.
Can you keep access and pump charges straight?
Extra charges like pump, standby and access are logged as they occur and priced against the job rather than absorbed into a lump sum.
Get the desk off your back
Tell us what you are running and what it is costing you to keep up. We will tell you plainly whether we are a fit.
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