By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com Masonry is a skilled-labor trade with weather-dependent curing and a revenue model that often runs two ways at once — direct to homeowners and as a sub to general contractors. Masonry contractor bookkeeping has to price skilled labor correctly, respect the curing calendar, and separate those two revenue streams, or the nu

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com A garage door business runs on parts carried in the van as much as materials bought for a job — springs, openers, and panels ride along on every truck, and warranty claims split between what the manufacturer covers and what's your own responsibility. Garage door contractor bookkeeping has to track both correctly, or truck

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com No two flooring jobs cost the same way. Carpet, hardwood, tile, and LVP each carry a completely different ratio of material cost to labor cost, which means flooring contractor bookkeeping that treats every job the same way will misprice half of them. Add material-specific waste factors and warranty claims that can be eit

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com A fencing company runs on volume, not a handful of large contracts — many small jobs, each priced per linear foot, each with its own material and labor mix. Fencing contractor bookkeeping has to handle that volume without losing job-level accuracy, or a business that's constantly busy can still be thin on margin. This gui

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com Demolition is unlike almost every other trade in one specific way: tearing a structure down can generate real income, not just cost. Scrap metal, reclaimed materials, and salvageable fixtures pulled from a job can be sold — which means a demolition company's books have to track both what a job costs and what it recovers,

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com A fire protection company runs on a revenue split unlike almost any other trade: new sprinkler and alarm system installs, which behave like a standard construction project, alongside inspection and testing work that isn't optional maintenance a customer might skip — it's required by code, on a schedule, indefinitely. Fire

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com A landscaping and hardscape company is really running two businesses at once: design-build installs that behave like construction projects, and maintenance routes that behave like a subscription service. Add in plant material that can literally die before it gets installed, and a season that swings from fully booked to ne

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com A tree service company runs on some of the most expensive specialized equipment in any trade, some of the highest-risk labor, and a demand pattern that can flip from routine to overwhelmed the moment a storm rolls through. Tree service bookkeeping has to be built around all three of those realities, or a company that look

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com A restoration company doesn't run one business — it runs two, back to back, on the same loss. The emergency call — water, fire, or smoke damage — gets a fast mitigation response, billed on its own logic and often its own timeline. Once the property is dried out, cleaned, or stabilized, the job shifts into reconstruction,

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com Framing moves fast — a crew can frame a house in days and be on the next job before the walk-through is even scheduled. That speed is exactly what makes framing contractor bookkeeping easy to get wrong: lumber prices swing, crews get paid on hours or on units framed, waste piles up quietly on every cut, and a callback six

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com Like most specialty trades, a plumbing company runs service calls and fixed-bid installs side by side, and those two revenue streams need to be costed separately — that split isn't unique to plumbing, but getting it right still matters. What is genuinely specific to plumbing contractor bookkeeping is what happens once you

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com A pool build looks simple from the outside — dig a hole, spray it, tile it, fill it. In the books, it's closer to running a small development project than a typical remodel: a deposit-heavy draw schedule, mandatory cure times that stretch the calendar, and six or seven specialty trades all billing into one job. Pool and s