Gaffer for
drainage engineers.
Drains are emergencies at night and surveys for house buyers by day, and both want invoicing before the customer’s relief wears off. Gaffer answers the 10pm blocked-drain enquiry for you, keeps the confined space entry permit and atmospheric gas test record on the job, and sends the MSCC5 survey report to the buyer’s solicitor as a branded PDF. Quote, schedule, certify, invoice and get paid — with the 24 trade documents drainage engineers actually use already in the account.
Where two names look alike they are different documents — a notification is not the certificate that follows it, and two schemes covering the same work each want their own form. If you think one is missing, or that one of these is redundant, say so and we will change the pack.
Priced quote templates for drainage engineers, your own price book and good-better-best options. Customers accept and pay a deposit from their phone.
24 trade documents ready for drainage engineers — 18 written for this trade, 6 shared with others — filled in on the phone, signed on site and emailed as a PDF before you leave.
One tap raises the invoice from the accepted quote, nets off the deposit and sends a Pay Now link. Reminders chase for you.
Certificates and services with an expiry date become next year’s work. Gaffer texts the customer a booking link before it lapses.
A blockage that turns into a lining job, end to end
This is the shape of the work in Gaffer — the same job you already do, with the hand-offs taken off your plate.
See the same job in detail- 22:10Enquiry from the website. Auto-reply sent in seconds; you are notified.
- 07:40Job assigned. The customer gets a morning arrival window by text.
- 09:15Jetting record completed. The CCTV survey finds a cracked run under the drive.
- 09:40Second quote sent from the van for a no-dig lining. Accepted the same day.
- ThuConfined space permit and gas test signed, lining record done, invoice paid by card.
- +12 moA CCTV survey reminder brings the customer back before the next wet winter.
24 trade documents, ready for drainage engineers.
18 of them are written for this trade and 6 are shared with others — an EICR is an EICR whoever issues it. Every one is a real digital form, not a blank template.
Each one is a proper digital form: the fields that document actually needs, signature capture, photo attachments, a PDF the customer can keep, and — where it has one — an expiry date Gaffer tracks. Completed on the phone, offline if it has to be.
- Atmospheric gas test record
- Blockage clearance record
- CCTV drain survey
- Confined space assessment
- Confined space entry permit
- Drain Engineer — Credentials & Accreditation Record
- Drain Engineer — Emergency Callout Record
- Drain jetting record
- Drain jetting risk assessment
- Drainage survey report (MSCC5)
- Manhole record
- No-dig lining record
- Patch repair record
- Section 106 connection application
- Waste carrier consignment note
- Drain CCTV survey
- Excavation record
- Drainage installation record
- Legionella risk assessment
- COSHH record
- Waste transfer note
- Handover record
- Site survey
- Risk assessment
Certificates are the start. The whole operation runs here.
Leads, quotes, scheduling, the field app, invoicing, payments, reminders, reports and your accounts sync — all in the same login as the paperwork.
Run your next drainage engineer job on Gaffer.
Free for 14 days, no card. Pick “Drain Engineer” at sign-up and the 24 trade documents above are switched on before you finish your tea.
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