Survey to scope
Quantities, materials and areas are taken from the report you were sent. Anything the report cannot tell you becomes a question for you rather than an assumption.
Asbestos · Lead · Mold abatement
Timber handles the paperwork half of every abatement job.
The containment and the removal are work your crew already does well. The margin is lost on the office side: a notification filed late, a refresher certificate that expired mid-job, and a closeout binder the general contractor wants before he releases retainage. Timber reads the hazmat survey, prices the scope against your own rate book, tracks certification dates, and assembles the closeout package as the documents arrive.
Kingsway Tower · Floors 4–6
Class II10-day notification
4 days
Drafted from the survey. Awaiting supervisor signature.
L. Ortega
Supervisor
D. Whitfield
Worker
M. Sowah
Worker
Closeout package
✓Sign-in sheets
✓Pressure logs
Waste manifests
Clearance result
10-day
Notifications are drafted from the survey you uploaded rather than retyped by hand
Certs
Refresher and fit-test dates are checked before you assign anyone to a containment
Closeout
The binder fills up while the job runs instead of being assembled afterwards
The real bottleneck
Why abatement jobs lose money in the office.
Abatement contractors rarely lose money on the removal itself. They lose it on the documentation that has to exist before an owner, an inspector or a general contractor will accept the work as finished.
The notification is typed out twice
The hazmat survey already lists the homogeneous areas, the material types and the quantities. Someone in the office still copies all of it into the state notification form by hand, and amends that form again every time the start date moves.
An expired certificate stops the job
Accreditation, the annual refresher, medical surveillance and the fit test all expire on their own dates. One lapsed card on site means a stop-work order and a fine, and those dates usually live in a spreadsheet nobody has opened this month.
Daily logs stay on paper
Pressure readings, HEPA runtime, decontamination entries and who was inside the enclosure are recorded on a clipboard. When an inspector asks for last Tuesday's readings, somebody has to go and find the sheet.
Retainage waits on the closeout binder
The owner wants waste manifests with the landfill signature returned, clearance results, sign-in sheets and disposal records. The removal finished in April, but payment arrives whenever the binder is finally complete.
How it runs
From a survey PDF to a priced scope and a complete record.
01
Read the survey
Upload the hazmat survey or inspection report. Timber pulls out the homogeneous areas, material types and quantities that the report states, then asks you about the things a survey never covers: building access, whether the space is occupied, which shift you will work, negative air requirements and the disposal site.
- Quantities listed by homogeneous area
- Friable and non-friable material handled separately
- Questions about occupancy, access and shift
02
Price the scope
Timber prices containment, negative air, labor by the crew-day, encapsulant, disposal at your own tipping rate and third-party clearance. Mobilization and per-diem appear as their own lines instead of being buried inside the labor figure.
- Containment and setup priced as their own lines
- Disposal priced at your landfill rate
- Hygienist and clearance costs carried through to the total
03
Keep the compliance record
The notification is drafted from the scope you have just priced. Certification dates are checked against the crew you assigned. Daily logs arrive by text message from the foreman. The closeout package fills up as each document lands.
- Notification and amendment drafts
- Certification expiry checked before an assignment
- A closeout binder that is always up to date
Job types
The work an abatement desk handles.
The same software handles a single-room lead job and a full-floor asbestos strip-out running on night shift.
Asbestos — Class I & II
- Survey quantities turned into a priced scope
- Notification drafted and amendments tracked
- Negative air and pressure logs kept on the job record
- Waste records chased until the signed copy comes back
Lead abatement / RRP
- Component counts taken from the risk assessment
- Firm and renovator certification kept on file
- Occupant notifications drafted for you to send
- Clearance wipes tracked through to a result
Mold remediation
- Moisture mapping and photos stored on the job
- Containment and HEPA work priced as scope lines
- Post-remediation verification held as a gate before closeout
- A report the insurer can read, not just an invoice
Emergency and unforeseen
- Hidden material found part-way through a demolition
- Change order drafted within the hour
- Crew pulled and rescheduled from a chat message
- A written position sent to the general contractor quickly
The honest version
Timber drafts the paperwork; a licensed person files it.
Timber does not sign your notification and it does not clear your containment. What it removes is the several hours of retyping between the survey arriving in your inbox and a defensible number going back to the general contractor.
- 1Timber reads the survey and asks about what the report leaves out
- 2It prices containment, labor, disposal and clearance from your own rate book
- 3You edit the scope, and nothing is sent until you approve it
- 4Notifications, logs, manifests and clearance results collect into one package
Stays with you
Filing and signing
Timber drafts the notification and tells you when the deadline falls. A licensed person on your staff reviews it and submits it. We will not put your license behind a filing that happens on its own.
Stays with you
Clearance and air monitoring
A third-party hygienist clears the area. Timber tracks the sample, chases the result and files it on the job. It does not produce a clearance itself.
Stays with you
Who enters the enclosure
Timber tells you whose certification expires on Friday. You still decide who works, and an assignment made in error can be rolled back.
Capabilities
What the abatement desk actually does.
Certification watch
Accreditation, refresher dates, medical surveillance and fit tests are stored against each worker. Timber flags a lapse before you put that name on a containment.
Notification drafts
The scope you priced becomes the notification draft, including the amendment when a start date moves. You review it and file it.
Updates from the foreman by text
Pressure readings, HEPA hours, headcount and photos arrive by SMS or WhatsApp. There is no app to install for a crew that changes between seasons.
A closeout package that assembles itself
Manifests, clearance results, sign-in sheets and daily logs collect under the job as they arrive, so the package already exists when the owner asks for it.
Job costing once the containment comes down
Crew-days, disposal weight and equipment rental are compared against the bid, so you can see which scopes you underpriced while there is still time to price the next one differently.
What gets an abatement job paid is the documentation.
Abatement is one of the few trades where doing the work well is not enough to get paid. The scrape, the bag and the wipe are the straightforward part. Getting paid also requires a notification filed on time, a crew whose certifications were all current on the day they entered, waste that can be traced to a landfill signature, and an air clearance from a third party who does not work for you.
Most abatement contractors run all of that on a shared drive, a whiteboard and one person who knows where everything is. That works until the person is on vacation and a start date moves, or until an inspector walks the job and asks for last Tuesday's pressure log.
Timber sits between the survey and the binder. It reads the report you were sent, prices the scope against your rate book, drafts the paperwork that the scope implies, and keeps every log and manifest attached to the job that produced it. Your supervisor still signs, your hygienist still clears the area, and nothing is filed in your name without you.
Abatement contractors
Send us one hazmat survey.
Send a real hazmat survey along with the scope you would have priced from it. We will show you what Timber pulls out of the document and what it asks you about. If it cannot read your reports, we will tell you that rather than sell you a trial.
- We use your survey rather than a demo file
- You see the notification draft it produces
- Thirty minutes, and no slide deck
Or write ivan@felicita.group
FAQ
Abatement questions.
Still deciding? Book a demo and we will go through your own workflow live — your documents, your rates, your schedule.
No. It drafts them from the scope you priced, tells you when the deadline falls, and drafts the amendment when a date changes. A licensed person on your staff reviews and submits the filing.
Other work Timber runs
Abatement
Put the abatement paperwork on software.
Send in a survey and get back a priced scope and a compliance record, without adding another coordinator to payroll.
No credit card to start. Cancel any time.