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Concrete

What the platform does for a concrete crew: it holds the pour sequence, the batch ticket, and the inspection gates on one job.

What it does for you

Your Command Center, in your words

Concrete has its own configuration.

Stinger is one system, not a different product per trade. What changes is the configuration it runs on: the words on the screen, the columns on the board, the stages a job moves through, and the rules that decide what comes first. This is the Concrete & masonry configuration, as it ships.

The words on the screen

A piece of work is called
Job
An incoming call is called
Estimate request
The board is called
Job board

Job types: Site visit, Pour, Patch repair, Sealing.

The columns on your board

  • Site visit
  • Quoted
  • Scheduled
  • Poured
  • Cured

An incoming caller is a homeowner.

The stages a job moves through

  1. Captured
  2. Site visit
  3. Quoted
  4. Deposit
  5. Scheduled
  6. Poured
  7. Paid

The rules that decide what comes first

  • Pours are weather-contingent and reschedule on rain
  • Permits pulled before any structural work
  • 50% deposit before material order

The price list it starts with

Estimate
Free
Driveway repair
Estimate
New pour
Estimate
Sealing
$0.75/sqft

These are example figures, not our prices. They are what the configuration ships with so the screens are not empty on day one. You set your own.

Questions she is set up to answer

  • How long does concrete need to cure?
  • Do you handle permits?
  • What is the deposit?

Vocabulary is pour, cure, and permit; pours reschedule on rain, never on a guess.

How you get it: tell us your trade and we set the configuration up with you during onboarding. See every trade's setup questions side by side.

How it differs

Config-backed. The state specialty and general-contractor paths are carried with citations. A local specialty license exists in many jurisdictions but is graded convention, so it is named as a possibility, not a rule.

Florida licensing classes

Structural masonry specialty contractor

A board-created specialty certified to form, place, finish, reinforce, and pour concrete and masonry, including foundations, slabs, footers, walls, columns, and beams.

Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G4-15.015

General, building or residential contractor

Concrete sits within their scope, so one of these licensees may self-perform it without a separate concrete credential.

Fla. Stat. 489.105(3) (2025)

The dashboard layout is shared across every trade. The build stages, job types, permits, and compliance rules below are generated from this trade's own config pack, so they are specific to Concrete.

Build stages and phases

Flatwork pour build

  1. Tear-out
  2. Grade and base compaction
  3. Form
  4. Reinforce
  5. Pour
  6. Finish
  7. Joint / saw cut
  8. Cure
  9. Strip

Slab on grade / house pad build

  1. Site prep
  2. Fill and compaction
  3. Termite treatment
  4. Vapor retarder
  5. Reinforcement
  6. Plumbing and electrical sleeves
  7. Underground inspection
  8. Form
  9. Pour
  10. Finish

Threshold-building structural pour build

  1. Structural inspection plan
  2. Permit
  3. Special inspection at pour
  4. Pour
  5. Cylinder breaks

Job types

Driveway / apron build

Tear-out, grade, base compaction, form, reinforce with mesh or rebar, pour, finish, joint, cure, strip. The most common residential job and the one with the most curb-appeal risk.

Slab on grade / house pad build

Site prep, fill and compaction, termite treatment, vapor retarder, reinforcement, plumbing and electrical sleeves, form, pour, finish. Coordinated with the plumber and pest control, because the pour cannot happen until the underground is inspected.

Footings / stem wall / monolithic build

Florida residential is heavily monolithic-slab ('mono pour') or stem wall depending on grade and flood elevation.

Tie beam / lintel / columns build

The structural concrete in a Florida CMU house - grout-filled cells and a poured tie beam at the top of wall. This is where wind uplift resistance actually lives.

Flatwork: patios, walkways, pool decks build

Patios, walkways and pool decks. Pool deck slope and coping detailing are owned by vault/knowledge/pool-construction-codes.md and not restated here.

Decorative build

Stamped, broom, exposed aggregate, acid stain, integral colour, overlay, polished. Colour matching across pours is the recurring complaint.

Tilt-up / structural commercial build

Panel casting, lifting, bracing, welding embeds. A different business with a different insurance profile, and the place where the threshold-building special-inspection regime is most likely to apply.

Repair / restoration build

Spall repair, chloride-driven rebar corrosion, epoxy injection, slab jacking and polyjacking. Coastal Florida generates a lot of this and it is high-margin.

Demolition and removal build

Often the majority of the labour on a replacement driveway.

Permits

Permit triggers from the pack. The pack does not name the local permit or its filing window on purpose, so this page does not either. The building department confirms those.

  • Work on a threshold building - any building greater than three stories or 50 feet in height, or with an assembly occupancy classification exceeding 5,000 square feet in area and an occupant content of greater than 500 persons

    Permit required · inspection required · Fla. Stat. 553.71(12); 553.79(5) (2025)

  • Taking more than 10 percent of the contract price as a deposit on residential real property

    Permit required · Fla. Stat. 489.126 (2025)

  • A slab on grade with underground plumbing and electrical beneath it

    Permit likely, confirm locally · inspection required

Compliance rules

Obligations that fire on a job, from this trade's pack. Items marked as an open question were not fully settled by the research and should be confirmed, not asserted.

  • The 8th Edition clock runs out at the end of 2026 state

    Open question The permit-grandfathering mechanics at the changeover are unresolved in vault/trades/roofing.md section 0 and are not settled here either. Do not tell a contractor which edition their pending permit falls under. Defer to the local building department and the Florida Building Commission.

    Florida Building Commission, floridabuilding.org code-development pages

  • There is no single statewide answer to 'is this concrete contractor licensed?' statederived from the sequence the research states

    Open question Which counties and municipalities issue a local concrete, flatwork or paving specialty licence, and what each calls it, was not researched - it is precisely the county-specific class the rail forbids asserting. Defer to DBPR's licence search and the local building department.

  • A registered licence limits the service area, and this trade feels it hardest state

    Fla. Stat. 489.105(8), (10); 489.128 (2025)

  • Licence number on every offer, bid, proposal, contract, advertisement and vehicle state

    Fla. Stat. 489.119(5)(b)-(c) (2025)

  • Deposit over 10 percent starts a permit and commencement clock state

    Fla. Stat. 489.126 (2025)

  • Recovery-fund, lien-law and commencement notices state

    Fla. Stat. 489.1425; 713.015; 713.135 (2025)

  • FBC Chapter 19 adopts ACI 318 as amended state

    FBC 8th Ed. (2023) Building Sections 1901.2, 1904.1, 1904.2, 1905

  • Minimum thickness and vapor retarder for a floor slab on ground state

    Open question Slab thickness for anything other than a floor slab on ground - driveways, approaches, and anything carrying vehicles - is design and local-standard driven and is not stated anywhere in this config. Defer to the engineer of record and the local standard.

    FBC 8th Ed. (2023) Building Section 1907.1

  • Special inspections work differently in Florida than in the IBC state

    Open question The 'RESERVED' status of the FBC section that would otherwise carry the IBC scheme was read through a third-party code mirror rather than a Florida Building Commission publication. It matches Florida's known threshold-building structure, but confirm against the code text before relying on it in a filing. Defer to the Florida Building Commission and the enforcing agency.

    Fla. Stat. 553.71(9); 553.71(12); 553.79(5) (2025)

  • On a threshold building the inspector's schedule drives the pour state

    Fla. Stat. 553.79(5) (2025)

  • Test reports go to the building official state

    FBC 8th Ed. (2023) Building Section 1703.6.2.1

  • Coastal chloride exposure is engineer-of-record territory state

    Open question The specific exposure-class letters, water-cementitious limits, minimum strengths and cover dimensions for a given Florida coastal condition were not retrieved. Never state a cover dimension or a water-cementitious ratio. Defer to the engineer of record.

    ACI 318 as adopted via FBC 8th Ed. (2023) Building Section 1904

  • The cure standards can be named; their numbers may not be quoted industry

    Open question The standards themselves were not retrieved, and they differ from each other and from the project specification. Every cure number in circulation is convention until an engineer's spec says otherwise. Defer to the engineer of record and the project specification.

    ACI 301; ACI 308.1; ACI 305.1; ASTM C31; ASTM C39 (named, not quoted)

  • Cure means keeping moisture in industrytrade convention

  • Pool-shell conventions do not transfer to flatwork or structural concrete industryderived from the sequence the research states

  • The underground must be inspected before the pour localtrade convention

  • Reinforcement must sit on chairs, not on the ground industrytrade convention

  • The batch ticket is the evidence industrytrade convention

  • Control joints cut on time and deep enough industrytrade convention

  • The quality is invisible after the pour industrytrade convention

  • Waiving or rebating a deductible is a felony whatever the trade state

    Fla. Stat. 817.234(7) (2025)

  • Post-loss benefits may not be assigned, whatever the trade state

    Fla. Stat. 627.7152(13) (2025)

  • Whether the roofing insurance-advertising statute reaches concrete is open state

    Open question The exact reach of the statute's contractor prohibitions to a non-roofing contractor working an insured property loss. The subsections are phrased in terms of 'a contractor' and repairs 'covered by a property insurance policy', and the section sits in general Chapter 489, but no authority was found either way. Defer to counsel.

    Fla. Stat. 489.147 (2025)

  • Advertising a warranty triggers a disclosure duty federal

    16 C.F.R. Part 239

  • Strength, durability and lifespan claims need a reasonable basis federal

    FTC advertising-substantiation duty

  • Door-to-door signing carries a cancellation notice state

    Fla. Stat. 501.025 (2025)

  • FDUTPA is the general deception backstop state

    Fla. Stat. 501.204 (2025)

Vocabulary the trade actually uses

  • yard
  • slump
  • screed
  • bull float
  • control joint
  • saw cut
  • cold joint
  • honeycomb
  • spall
  • rebar
  • chairs
  • cover
  • cylinder break
  • f’c

The screens

Concrete & masonry on Command Center, its own configuration: the trade’s vocabulary, live queue, and jobs (demo data). Review the concrete queue before choosing a job, showing the trade setup in the shared console.
Concrete & masonry on Command Center, its own configuration: the trade’s vocabulary, live queue, and jobs (demo data). Review the concrete queue before choosing a job, showing the trade setup in the shared console.

The screens above are the shared dashboard the app renders for every trade. The service, build, and command screens are the same across trades. What changes for this trade is the licensing, compliance, stage sequence, and vocabulary on this page, not the screen layout.

Where it stands today

Config-backed for licensing, stages, and vocabulary. Concrete runs on the shared build screens.

Talk to Vincent

Want to see it configured for your work?

Call or text (772) 529-4144 or email StingerIndustries1@gmail.com. He answers the phone.

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