Free daywork sheet template (Excel)

A free daywork sheet in Excel: one A4 sheet for each instruction with the labour, plant and materials, signed by both sides, and a log of every sheet on the job until it is valued and paid. No sign-up and no email address.

Download the daywork sheet (Excel, 12 KB)

What is in it

• Daywork sheet. Contractor, job, client or contract administrator, sheet number, date, who gave the instruction and its reference, a description of the work, then labour (name, trade, date, start, finish, hours, with a total), plant (what, plant number, hours, operator) and materials (what, quantity, unit, delivery ticket, supplier), and signatures for both sides.
• Log. One row for each sheet: number, date, instruction, hours, who signed it for the client and when, sent for valuation, paid.

What makes a daywork sheet stand up

RICS guidance describes daywork records as prepared by the contractor "recording the labour, plant and materials used in the operation", and submitted "to the architect/contract administrator for verification", and says daywork sheets "must be signed off by the contract administrator". In practice that means four things:

1. Written on the day, while the work can still be seen and checked.
2. Names and hours, not "2 men, all day".
3. The instruction it rests on: who asked for the work, when, and the reference.
4. Signed by the client's side as soon as possible, and a copy kept by each.

Your contract decides how daywork is instructed, recorded and valued, and by when sheets must be submitted. In the JCT 2024 Standard Building Contract the clause is 5.7, Daywork. Rates and percentage additions for overheads and profit are applied when the work is valued, under the contract.

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