The takeoff said 136. You poured 142 because the footings ran deep on the east side. Six loads came in short, the pump sat 95 minutes waiting on the finishers, and every dollar of it is on a delivery ticket in somebody’s truck. BLT gets those tickets onto the line the day they’re signed.
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Excavation on Monday, forms and steel by Thursday, footings and stem the following week, slab the week after that. Every number below moved inside those nine days, and only one of them was on the plans.
| Line | Baseline | Current | Committed | Actual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excavation & backfill | 8,400 | 11,600 | — | 11,180 |
| Forms & form labor | 9,200 | 9,200 | — | 8,870 |
| Rebar, mesh & chairs | 6,100 | 6,100 | 1,350 | 5,240 |
| Concrete, 142 yd | 21,300 | 21,300 | — | 22,610 ↑ |
| Pump & standby | 3,800 | 4,300 | — | 4,120 |
| Flatwork & finish | 7,400 | 7,400 | — | 2,980 |
| Lot total | 56,200 | 59,900 | 1,350 | 55,000 |
Fifteen trucks come through in four hours. Nobody is going to organize paper on pour day, so it has to be a photograph taken with one hand while the chute swings.
$55,000 of a $59,900 budget is gone and the driveway, walks, and porch are still to pour. That is $4,420 of work against $4,900 of budget, and it is knowable on Wednesday instead of at closeout.
Nobody argues about six yards. That is the problem — it is small enough to absorb every single time, on every lot, all year.
Every ticket is photographed at the gate and read on the way in. Yards, mix, time on site, and any fee land on the concrete line with the image kept beside them, so the invoice from the plant gets checked against what actually rolled through.
Yards, mix, slump, and the first truck time. Placed against the takeoff so the delivered total has something to be compared to.
Every ticket photographed as the truck comes in. Yards, batch time, and fees read off the paper and posted to the concrete line.
Pump start and stop, standby minutes, and the crew on the clock — all of it against this pour and not against the week.
Bull float, edge, cut, and cure. Finisher hours land on flatwork instead of disappearing into the slab line.
Cylinders cast and logged, slump recorded, and the 7- and 28-day breaks filed against the pour they came from.
Each phase has its own hours, its own material, and its own inspection. The weather sits across all four and the schedule knows it.
Cut, fill, and dig. The phase where the soils report meets the actual dirt and one of them is wrong.
Panels, snap ties, rebar, mesh, and chairs. Closed by a pre-pour inspection and thirty photographs.
Four hours that carry a third of the budget. Tickets, pump time, and standby, all captured while it happens.
Drives, walks, porches, and stripping the forms. The last money out and the easiest to run out of.
One job free, every feature, no card. Bring last month’s delivery tickets and see what the pours actually cost.