Flooring installer time tracking, without the timer.
How a flooring installer's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A flooring installer's day is the opposite. You're laying hardwood, prepping subfloors, and installing tile, switching between addresses like Residential remodels, New construction builds, Commercial retail fit-outs, and doing tasks like Sanding and refinishing, Subfloor leveling, Laminate and LVP installation. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction flooring installers tell us about
- Forgetting to log the extra trips to the warehouse for missing transitions or adhesive
- Losing track of time spent on tedious subfloor prep versus the actual installation phase
- Difficulty justifying travel time between far-flung residential job sites
- Missing out on billable minutes during the transition from carpet removal to floor prep
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically captures every trip to the flooring supply house as a mileage-tracked event
- Records the full duration of a job by auto-detecting stops from prep to final trim
- Provides an automated, exportable log of all site visits to back up your hours
- Eliminates manual entry for every drive between different residential properties
How flooring installers actually track hours (and where it breaks)
Real threads from real tradespeople — each quote links to the original discussion.
I am not sure how much to charge for heavy patch, specifcally I'm hand patching SDP. Should I track my hours and charge by that, or just charge by the bag? … since moving out into doing my own work the hardest part is finding a good price for things
Whether you bill by the hour or by the bag, you need real hours-per-job data to price without ripping off anyone — yourself included. That data accumulates automatically when every site visit is logged.
Free. The whole app.
The whole time-tracking app is free — no trial, no feature gate, no ads, no per-user fees. (Encrypted cloud backup is on the roadmap.)
- Automatic day reconstruction from background GPS
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit any block
- Rounded billable-hours summary, shareable as plain text
- Automatic mileage log, exportable for taxes
- 7-day summary view
- All location data stays on your device
Your location history stays on your phone.
There is no TradesTimer server storing your location trails. No account. No sign-up. Your GPS history lives on the device that recorded it — for as long as you want it. The only time anything leaves your phone is when you choose to share your billable-hours summary yourself.
The app does not talk to any third-party service with your location. Nothing about where you've been is uploaded anywhere. See the privacy policy for the full detail.