A quote app for concreters — priced before the truck is booked

How concreting work goes unpaid

• What the ground was hiding. The quote priced a straightforward dig. The excavator finds soft spots that need boxing out and extra road base, tree roots through half the formwork line, or an old footing nobody mentioned. You can't pour over it and you can't stop for a week — so the fix happens on the spot, and if the price for it stays verbal, it's your margin in the ground.
• The pump you didn't price. From the street it looked like a straight barrow run. On the day, the side access is 700 mm wide with a gas meter in it, and now there's a line pump on the job. Pump hire is hundreds of dollars decided in a five-minute phone call — exactly the kind of cost that gets absorbed because there was “no time to do the paperwork”.
• Last-minute upgrades at the formwork. The owner walks the boxing the night before the pour and decides the shed slab should take a hoist one day — thicker slab, heavier mesh, maybe a rebate while you're at it. Saying yes is good business. Saying yes with a written price attached is the difference between an upgrade and a gift, because after the pour there is nothing to point at: the mesh you upgraded is invisible under 100 mm of concrete.

Add the weather wildcard — a rained-out pour re-booked with the truck and crew half-committed — and concreting runs on more mid-job decisions than almost any trade. Each one deserves a line on paper.

The driveway dig that found an old slab

A photo of the buried path goes on the job note, the owner approves the variation from his desk, and the excavator keeps working. This is the trade where timing matters most: after the pour, the old path doesn't exist any more. The evidence and the yes both have to be captured while the hole is open. Prices come from the user and stay editable. Timmy structures the work and wording; it does not invent amounts.

Quoting concrete: write down what you assumed

Every concrete quote is built on assumptions — normal digging conditions, wheelbarrow or direct-chute access, a stated thickness and mesh, a set finish. The quotes that survive contact with the ground are the ones that say so: “price based on standard excavation; rock, buried obstructions or unsuitable ground quoted as a variation”, “pump, if required due to access, charged at cost plus margin”. Talk the job through roughly — metres, thickness, finish, your rates — and Timmy structures it into a professional quote with the assumptions in writing, which turns the mid-dig variation into the process you flagged on day one. It won't calculate your cubic metres or set a rate; the numbers are yours. More in how to write a professional trade quote, and if a job takes a deposit or progress payment, see deposit and progress payment wording.

What Timmy asks when a concreting note is missing details

When an important detail is missing (a price, a customer, a scope item), Timmy asks rather than making it up. On concreting notes, expect:

• A change with no number. “Bumping it to SL82 and 125 thick” becomes a scoped upgrade line with the price open, and Timmy asks for your amount — it won't guess what heavier mesh costs on your job.
• Missing quantities. “A bit more base” gets a question about how many cube, because vague quantities are where disputes over dirt-cheap materials become disputes over hundreds of dollars.
• Which job? A driveway, a shed slab and a path across three suburbs in one week — Timmy confirms the customer before the variation lands anywhere.

Who it fits — and who it doesn't

TradieCue is built for solo tradies and small owner-operated trade businesses (roughly 1–5 people) in australia. For a solo concreter or a small crew doing driveways, shed slabs, paths and house slabs for owners and builders, it fits the pace of the trade: quote from the site walk, get the dig surprises approved in writing while the machine idles, and chase the invoice when the job's cured and the money isn't. What it isn't: scheduling or crew management, a batching or ordering tool, and it has no role in booking trucks or pumps — it documents the price you agreed for them. Drafts aren't legal advice, nothing is sent without you, and it's iPhone only for now.

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