For plumbing crews
Service calls and rough-ins, hours that add up.
Vans running service calls all day, a rough-in crew on new construction, and an apprentice riding along. One weekly board for all of it.
Plumbing splits between two rhythms: service techs bouncing between calls in the van, and construction crews spending full days on rough-ins and trims. Apprentices ride along, on-call weekends happen, and 1099 subs fill in on big jobs. My Guys Time handles the mix — daily logging from the field, one weekly review, clean separation between your W-2 crew and everybody else.
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Where plumbing hours go missing
If any of these sound like your week, your time cards are leaking.
Service days are fragmented
Six calls, six driveways, one van. The tech's day is real work, but reconstructing it Friday from a pile of work orders is fantasy.
Apprentices ride along
The apprentice's hours mirror the journeyman's — except when they don't, because he got sent for parts for two hours. Somebody has to track the difference.
On-call and weekend calls
Sunday emergency call-outs are the hours most likely to be forgotten by the time you review the week.
Subs on big rough-ins
Large new-construction work brings in 1099 help. Their hours need tracking without mixing into your employee payroll.
The plumbing week on My Guys Time
Log from the van
Last call done, hours tapped in from the phone. The rough-in foreman logs the crew the same way from the job site.
You review the week
Service techs, construction crew, apprentices — one board, every day. The Sunday call-out is already on it.
Adjust and separate
Split the apprentice's parts-run hours, keep 1099 sub hours apart from W-2 hours, fix the day the tech left early. One review pass.
Hand off the week
The office reviews the week and hands it to whoever runs payroll. Supply-house receipt photos are attached to the day they happened.
W-2 and 1099, cleanly separated
Plumbing is one of the trades most likely to run a mixed crew — your own techs plus 1099 subs on big jobs. My Guys Time keeps both on the same weekly board but marked separately, so the office can see each person's hours, hours past 40, and a simple gross estimate. It doesn't file 1099s or run payroll.
Plumbing questions, answered straight
Do techs need to log per call or per day?+
Per day. This is a time card, not dispatch software — the tech logs his day's hours in seconds, and your work orders still handle the per-call detail.
How do on-call hours work?+
Any hours worked get logged to the day they're worked, including weekends and call-outs. The weekly totals include them automatically.
Can I track hours against specific jobs for billing?+
Daily hours per tech give you the labor side, and the day-by-day board lets you allocate to jobs however you bill. For time-and-materials work, the weekly totals are your backup.
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