Masonry invoice template — units, scaffolding and weather
Masonry invoices carry costs a customer never sees: mortar trials, scaffolding days and cold-weather protection. These templates itemise them.
An invoicing spreadsheet that opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets, or prints to PDF. Pre-filled with the fields a masonry invoice needs, plus the payment terms this trade most often gets caught out by.
- Blank — the invoice fields, ready to fill in by hand.
- Auto-calculating — same sheet with subtotal, tax, deposit and balance due wired up. Formulas work in Excel and Google Sheets.
- Printable — a clean one-page layout to fill in or save as PDF.
How masonry work actually gets paid
Masonry bills per unit laid or per square foot of face, with scaffolding and access as separate lines because they are separate costs that continue whether or not the wall is going up. Weather is the variable nobody plans for: below a certain temperature the work stops or gets protected, and protection is blankets, heaters and lost days. On repair work the mortar match is a billable exercise in its own right — several trial batches before anyone approves one — and it belongs on the invoice rather than absorbed as goodwill.
What a masonry invoice must contain
- Invoice number, issue date, due date and the structure covered
- Units laid by type and size, or square feet of finished face
- Mortar type and colour, and trial batches where a match was required
- Scaffolding: erection, rental days and dismantling, each priced
- Reinforcement, flashing, weeps and any through-wall detail
- Cold-weather protection: materials, heating and days lost
- Cleaning, pointing and any sealer applied
- Mason and tender hours, shown separately
Where masonry invoices go unpaid
- Mortar match trials absorbed as goodwill, then the whole job re-priced in the customer's head
- Scaffolding days running past the masonry days with no daily rate agreed
- Cold-weather stoppage billed as standby with nothing in the terms allowing it
- Access changed mid-job to wheelbarrow, quadrupling labour, with no variation raised
The estimate this invoice bills against
An invoice is only as defensible as the estimate it came from. BidWand writes the estimate from a plain description of the job — labour, materials, exclusions and assumptions — so the numbers on this invoice are ones the customer already agreed to.
Draft the masonry estimate behind this invoice
This generates the estimate, not the invoice — describe the job and you get the itemised figures to bill from. No email needed to see the first one.
What you get — see the format first
A complete estimate you can send to the customer, built from the rate you enter:
| Description | Qty | Unit | Unit price | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor — itemized by task | hrs | hour | your rate | — |
| Materials — with your markup applied | qty | ea / sq ft | cost + markup | — |
| Permits, disposal, access | — | — | — | — |
Plus a plain-English scope summary, assumptions (what had to be guessed), exclusions (what you are not doing — the section that prevents most change-order arguments), and a validity period. Printable, or send the link.
Every figure comes from the rate and markup you supply. We never fill in a market price for you.
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