
From the manhole surcharging on a Sunday morning, through the survey report, to the lining quote that gets accepted before you have unloaded.
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Callouts, CCTV surveys and jetting sit on a page with your genuine availability. Someone standing over a surcharging chamber picks a time instead.
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Drag the emergency into the gap between two surveys. The van sees the change before the reel comes off. Nobody rings round to explain.
Learn moreSewage does not wait for office hours. Your booking page takes the callout at your attendance rate and puts it in the run before anyone has picked up a phone.
Set what turning up costs and what the hour after it costs, so the price is settled before the chamber lid is off.
What is coming up the gully, where the chamber is, whether the truck will get down the side. On the booking, not in a text you lose.
Bookable hours are the ones you actually answer, and an emergency rate is an option on the service rather than a second business.
Two days of rain and every chamber in the postcode surcharges at once. That is the week your page has nothing left on it and people ring the next name.
No slots left reads as booked rather than broken, so the customer asks to go on the list instead of going elsewhere.
A surcharging chamber arrives as a message with the address and photograph attached, and you answer it between jobs.
Surveys and lining quotes that can wait book into the following week, so the lull after the rain is not an empty diary.
Drain in the back yard is overflowing every time the toilet flushes. Can anyone come today?
Two clears and a camera run against one address. That history is what turns a cut-the-roots-again call into a lining quote they say yes to.
One clear turns into a collapse and everything behind it moves. Perfectly normal, and the calendar should not make a fuss.
The map suggests half an hour. With a jetting unit behind you and a tanker to meet, it rather does not.
Nobody signs off a reline the day they get it. See which ones have been opened, and which address is one wet week away from ringing you back.
Every job on the truck
Books as an urgent callout with an attendance charge and an hourly rate after it, so the price is agreed before the cover comes off.
A short fixed-price booking with the report as the deliverable, and the repair quote raised against the same customer record.
Priced by the hour, with an option for the nozzle set you need on a fat-laden commercial kitchen run.
The job that comes back. Book the cut now and put the lining quote in front of them the same week.
Quoted as patches, liner metres and junction reinstatements on separate lines, so the number carries its own explanation.
Multi-day work quoted in stages, with reinstatement and spoil as their own lines rather than buried in a total.
A day or two on site with an excavation option group, quoted after the survey rather than over the phone.
Small fixed-scope work that fits the hour between two bigger jobs, and the schedule will show you which hour that is.
Fixed price, tight deadline, and the report goes back through the thread the buyer or the solicitor opened.
Recurring bookings on an interval, so next year is already on the calendar as you pull off the drive.
A round of sites on a schedule, each with its own access notes, keys and site contact held on the job.
Clear it today, survey it and cut the roots, or line the length that keeps failing. It goes out as a single good, better, best estimate.
Pro adds option groups: out-of-hours attendance, a second access point, tankering, or a heavier jetting rate for a clay run under a driveway. Each shifts the price on the estimate already open in front of them.
Metres, hours and units, each with a rate behind it. Change the run length and the total follows rather than being retyped.
The camera comes out and the quote goes from the van, which is when it is most likely to be accepted.
Estimate numbers are fixed behind a confirm, so two versions of the same quote cannot share a reference.
When a survey is booked, the open times are ranked by how much extra driving each would add to the day already in the diary.
Nothing already booked is touched. The better times simply sit higher on the page the customer is reading.
A drainage day is a few long attendances with a good deal of road between them, which is where ranking earns its place.
Distance affects which slot is offered first. It never quietly alters the price the customer is given.
Drainage money is either taken at the chamber or chased for a fortnight. The receipt, put politely, ought to see itself out.
Mark it paid on the job and it is recorded. That sits on every plan and is not going to move.
A link they tap on the drive, and the receipt lands against the booking rather than in a notebook.
An excavation can be split across stages once the booking exists. Pro, and after the job is on the calendar.
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Not in the way gas work is. Most contractors sit with a trade body instead, such as the National Association of Drainage Contractors and its DrainSafe scheme. Whatever you hold goes on your own quotes and invoices, in your own words.
Estimates are structured lines with a quantity and a rate, so a repair reads as metres of liner, a patch, junction reinstatement, jetting time and reinstating the surface, each priced. It is considerably easier to accept than a single figure.
Which is most of it. Book the survey as the bookable thing, then send the excavation or lining quote against the same customer. The survey sits on the schedule as a real job and is not billed as the repair.
It handles the booking, the quote and the money. What the drainage rules where you work require, be that Approved Document H, the Scottish technical handbooks or the Northern Ireland technical booklets, and whether your sewerage undertaker or Scottish Water wants a build-over agreement for work near a public sewer, is your judgement on the job, not something software decides.
Cash and bank transfer are recorded by hand and free on any plan. Cards come with Pro, and Pro also splits a longer excavation into stages billed after the booking exists.
Each engineer keeps their own hours, their own patch and their own job list, and roles decide who sees pricing. A subcontractor can be handed the work without being handed the margins.
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