Flooring contractor software, shown on a fictional flooring company

Open the demo and you are inside Plankmeadow Floors, a fictional flooring company running the real product: click anything, nothing changes.

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What works today for a flooring company, and what is not available yet

The demo's welcome card says the same. The names, people, jobs and prices in this demo are illustrative.

The flooring jobs in the demo

Each with what its estimate covers and how it is billed:

• Fairweather LVP and stairs, 640 sf — LVP in the living room, hall and kitchen, plus 13 stairs (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Measure notes: 640 sf over a level plywood subfloor; 13 box stairs with a landing; lay the plank along the hall.
  Schedule: In-home measure → LVP delivered to acclimate → Tear-out and LVP install → Stairs, nosing and quarter round → Walkthrough and sign-off.
  Daily log: “Install log: moved the furniture, pulled the carpet and pad, checked the subfloor (flat, no soft spots). Floated the LVP through the living room, hall and kitchen; lot number checked against the receiving ticket.”
• Castellano hardwood refinish, main floor — Sand, stain and finish the oak on the main floor (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Sand the main floor → Stain and first coat → Final coats → Walkthrough and sign-off.
  Daily log: “Sanded the main floor in three passes, vacuumed and tacked. The homeowner picked the stain from two samples in the hall.”
• Morrow carpet, three bedrooms — Carpet and pad in three bedrooms (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Two cats; keep the bedroom doors closed during the install.
• Larkmoor Commons unit 214 turn, LVP — Unit 214: carpet out, LVP in the living room and both bedrooms (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Property manager's work order 8817 goes on the invoice; key at the leasing office.
  Schedule: LVP delivered to unit 214 → Unit 214 tear-out and LVP install.
  Daily log: “Unit 214: pulled the carpet in the living room and both bedrooms; patched the slab at the patio door. Half the LVP down by the end of the day.”
• Elkmere Ridge lot 11, flooring package — Lot 11: LVP on the main floor, carpet upstairs, LVP stairs (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Builder walk at lot 11 → Material delivered to lot 11 → LVP install, main floor → Carpet upstairs and LVP stairs.
• Tansywold Valley Clinic sheet vinyl — Exam rooms and hall: sheet vinyl with welded seams and cove base (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Work after clinic hours; the facilities manager signs off each room.
  Schedule: RH probes set in the exam rooms → RH probes read → Sheet vinyl delivered to acclimate → Grind and level the slab → Sheet vinyl and welded seams → Cove base and walkthrough.
  Daily log: “Moisture test notes: read the RH probes. Exam rooms 3 and 4 read high for the product; the hall and exam room 2 are fine. Change order for moisture mitigation sent to the facilities manager.”

Walk through one flooring job: Morrow carpet, three bedrooms

Its schedule, in order:

1. Measure and seam plan
2. Carpet and pad delivered, dye lot checked
3. Furniture moved and old carpet out
4. Carpet install, three bedrooms
5. Walkthrough and sign-off

Change orders on this job: “Subfloor patch in bedroom 2”.

Purchase orders on this job: “Carpet, Morrow”; “Carpet install, three bedrooms, Morrow”; “Carpet pad, Morrow”.

To-dos on this job: “Run the install checklist before the walkthrough”; “Leave the leftover carpet labelled with the room and lot”.

From its daily log:

• Moved the furniture out of three bedrooms, pulled the old carpet and pad, replaced the tack strip along the closet wall in bedroom 2. Soft subfloor at that closet: CO-1 approved by the homeowner and patched. Rolls checked: same dye lot as the PO. Weather: Clear and cool.

A flooring proposal in the demo: Engineered hardwood, living room, dining room and hall

Plankmeadow Floors sent it to a lead. The scope reads:

Move the furniture, remove the carpet and pad, fix two squeaks, glue down engineered hardwood in the living room, dining room and hall, new quarter round, transitions at the kitchen and the entry, haul-away and cleanup.

The notes on that lead:

• Took three engineered hardwood samples home and booked a measure
• Measured the living room, dining room and hall: about 760 sf over plywood; two squeaks to fix
• Sent the quote with two plank widths

Other flooring leads in the demo

• LVP / laminate: Basement, about 600 sf on a slab; asked about a waterproof plank; Measured the basement; a moisture test is booked before the quote
• Carpet: Stairs and the upstairs hall; the dog wore through the stair carpet
• Unit turn: Asked for per-unit pricing for LVP turns across a 40-unit building

What goes on a flooring estimate in the demo

From Plankmeadow Floors's price list, without the prices:

• Measure appointment
• Remove carpet and pad
• Remove sheet vinyl and scrape the adhesive
• Furniture moving
• Toilet pull and reset
• Self-leveling underlayment
• Moisture test, RH probe
• Carpet pad
• Carpet, by style
• Carpet install
• Luxury vinyl plank, by style
• LVP floating install
• Commercial sheet vinyl, by style
• Sheet vinyl install
• Heat-welded seam
• Cove base
• Sand and finish
• Stain color
• Stairs, LVP tread and riser
• Stair nose
• Quarter round
• Transition strip
• Adhesives and sundries
• Haul-away and disposal

Flooring assemblies and a schedule template in the demo

Plankmeadow Floors's assemblies, in its own words:

• LVP floor, glue-down or floating: Measure the room in sf: planks, underlayment, adhesive and install labor are figured.
• Carpet and pad, per room: Measure the room in sf: carpet, pad, tack strip and install labor are figured.

Schedule template “LVP install, occupied home”: Measure and moisture test → Order material, confirm dye lot → Move furniture, remove old flooring → Level and prep the subfloor → Install LVP and transitions → Base, shoe and final walkthrough.

Flooring cost codes in the demo

Plankmeadow Floors's own cost codes:

• Measure & estimating
• Demolition & removal
• Furniture & appliance moving
• Floor prep & leveling
• Moisture testing & mitigation
• Underlayment & pad
• Carpet material
• Carpet install labor
• Resilient & laminate material
• Resilient & laminate install labor
• Hardwood material
• Hardwood install labor
• Sand & finish / refinish
• Stairs
• Base, shoe & trim
• Transitions & thresholds
• Adhesives & sundries
• Freight & delivery
• Disposal & dumpster
• Installer labor (piece rate)
• Callbacks & claims
• Permits & fees
• Contingency

Questions about SelfConstruct for flooring work

Is there a flooring version of SelfConstruct?

Not as a separate product. Plankmeadow Floors opens with the business type “Flooring”, so its menus are set for that trade. In a customer's company today, the menus are the same whatever the trade.

How are the flooring jobs in the demo billed?

Every one of Plankmeadow Floors's jobs in the demo is a fixed-price job.

Does SelfConstruct have “Sales tax by line” for flooring companies yet?

Not yet. It is on the list the demo's welcome card shows under “Not available yet for your trade”.

See it working right now

Pricing is published on the site: $299/mo per company before sales tax, unlimited users, 50 GB of storage included.

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