Time tracking for deck builders
Track visits throughout your day
Your work can include Setting post bases and footings, Laying decking boards, Installing fascia and trim. You might visit Residential backyards, Poolside decks, Multi-family balconies in one day. Use your timeline to review each recorded visit before billing.
Common time-tracking challenges
- Difficulty separating actual build time from transit between residential properties
- Forgetting to log mileage for mid-day trips to the lumber yard or hardware store
- Losing track of time spent on small repair visits versus large-scale structural builds
- Inaccurate time records when moving between different phases like framing and finishing
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically detects when you arrive at a new backyard to log the start of a build
- Captures every trip to the supply house as a recorded mileage entry for tax season
- Provides rounded billable hours to simplify invoicing for complex projects
- Distinguishes between active work stops and driving time between different clients
The founder’s experience with deck builder work
I built decks for years, usually alongside framing and reno work. Deck jobs look like one clean jobsite on paper, but the real days are broken up — footings one visit, framing the next, then a gap waiting on railing hardware while you fill the week with other clients' work.
When one deck stretches across three weeks with other jobs in the gaps, a notebook gets messy fast. Which Thursday was the stair stringers? Was the second footing visit three hours or four? If you can't answer at invoice time, you eat the difference.
Automatic tracking fixes that: every visit to that address is stamped with its own start and end, weeks apart or not. The job's total assembles itself while you build other things.
Free time tracking
Record stops and trips, review your hours, and export reports without a subscription.
- Automatic stop and trip recording
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit stops and trips
- Rounded billable hours, exported as text or CSV
- Travel log with estimated distances
- 7-day summary view
- History stored on your phone
Control your location history
TradesTimer stores your history on your phone. Address lookups send coordinates to an address provider. You choose where to share your hours and travel exports.
See the privacy policy for details about address lookups, exports, and other data use.