Plasterers
What belongs on a plastering invoice
Four things that decide whether a plastering invoice gets paid or gets a phone call. The generator further down opens with the lines already in it.
Price by the wall or the room and state the area. Plastering is one of the few trades where the customer genuinely cannot tell a good job from a bad one for a fortnight, so the invoice has to be legible instead.
Skimming over existing and plastering from bare are different jobs. So are one coat and two. Put it on the line.
Drying time is not your delay and the invoice can say so. “Do not decorate for 14 days” written on the document you hand over saves the callback about hairline cracks.
Making good after another trade should be described as making good. It is the line that stops a customer thinking your quote was low and your invoice was not.
Note the number of coats and whether the wall was PVA’d. It is what a decorator will ask you six months later when something goes wrong, and it is the difference between your work being questioned and their paint being questioned.
Record what was underneath. Lath and plaster, plasterboard, or a wall that had been skimmed twice already are three different jobs with three different risks, and the one that comes back to you is always the one nobody wrote down. Where you have advised a wall be hacked off and the customer chose a skim, that belongs on the invoice.
The lines below are real work at plausible quantities, and deliberately carry no prices. A price is a local fact about a local market, and a made-up one would be worse than none.