Guides
Field-voice guides for concrete subs.
Short, honest, written by someone who’s stood in the mud at 6 AM. No fluff — just how scheduling, weather, crews, and the switch off a spreadsheet actually work.
Pour & weather
How to run a concrete pour schedule without a spreadsheet
Where the Excel/Outlook stack breaks — and how to run the schedule live instead.
Read →How to stop double-booking your concrete crew
Why the spreadsheet can’t see the collision — and how to catch it before the truck rolls.
Read →The concrete pre-pour checklist (and the schedule behind it)
Day-before confirmations to the 6 AM go/no-go — plus where each item lives.
Read →Concrete pour timing: the 90-minute window and cold joints
Why ready-mix has ~90 minutes to discharge — and how a delay becomes a cold joint.
Read →Choosing software
How to move off your pour spreadsheet without disrupting a single job
A four-week, one-pour-at-a-time switch plan with nothing at risk.
Read →From a pour-schedule spreadsheet to a live board — without a migration
The one-pour method: move at your pace, keep the sheet open, stop any time.
Read →Google Sheets vs Planning Ops for concrete pours
Where the sheet is fine, where it bites, and how to keep it while you try live.
Read →When your “system” is Outlook and a group text
The one expensive blind spot in email + texts — and the narrow fix.
Read →Crew & manpower
Manpower projection & crew gap analysis
See where you’ll be short before the GC asks — surplus, tight, or short.
Read →Certification tracking with expiration alerts
Never put an expired cert on a job again.
Read →Crew time tracking + ADP/Paychex payroll export
ST/OT/DT timesheets to payroll without the re-keying.
Read →Managing manpower across crews: a 52-week approach
See the shortage a month out — demand vs. scheduled crew, week by week.
Read →Certification tracking: staying inspection-ready
The certs a crew carries, and how to catch an expiry before the inspector does.
Read →Daily reports & the field
Daily reports that don’t get entered twice
Why the field report should post the crew’s hours to time tracking — and kill double entry.
Read →Daily Reports for concrete subs — signed from the field
Foreman files it on the tablet, signs it, sends the PDF — and the hours land in payroll.
Read →The Manpower board that feeds and receives from the field
Crew prefills out to the report; submitted hours flow back into time tracking.
Read →Stop reading. Start with one pour.
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