Describe the concrete placement, project controls, and inspection points. Makeform turns them into a mobile pre pour inspection checklist with pass, fail, and not-applicable results, photo evidence, corrective-action details, and a clear ready-or-hold decision before the truck arrives.
Send inspection records to Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose the placement closest to your work, adjust the prompt, or send it to the Makeform builder. Each example is a practical starting structure to review against the project documents.
Audience
Superintendents checking a commercial slab before placement
Format
Sectioned field checklist with failed-item follow-up
Prompt size
536 chars
Example checklist structure
Sectioned field checklist with failed-item follow-up
Project, pour area, drawing revision, and mix
Subgrade, barrier, forms, dimensions, and elevations
Reinforcement, cover, embeds, sleeves, and joints
Describe and photograph failed items
Ready to pour or hold?
Suggested routing tags
Ready to pour
Correction required
On hold
Give each inspection point its own pass, fail, or not-applicable result. A single overall approval box can hide the exact correction that is still open.
Step 1
Identify
project, pour area, revision, mix, and schedule
Step 2
Inspect
forms, rebar, embeds, access, and coordination
Step 3
Correct
failed items get an owner, evidence, and recheck
Step 4
Release
record ready-to-pour or hold status
Field records that support a clear decision
A useful pre-pour record connects each inspection point to the exact placement area, exposes unresolved work, and shows the final decision that site teams received.
Record pass, fail, or not applicable separately for formwork, reinforcement, embeds, access, testing, and other project-specific items instead of burying the result in one overall checkbox.
Conditional questions request the precise location, observation, photo, responsible party, planned correction, and reinspection result only when a problem is selected.
Finish every submission with ready to pour or hold, plus the person recording the decision, time, comments, and notification recipients your project uses.
Adapt it to the placement
Start with the concrete element your team is preparing, then replace sample labels with the locations, drawing references, terminology, and release path used on the project.
Cover subgrade, vapor barrier, form elevations, reinforcement, joints, sleeves, embeds, access, mix details, finishing plan, and weather preparations.
Organize form condition, bracing references, line and plumb, rebar, cover, blockouts, waterstops, anchors, plates, openings, and placement access by element ID.
Record excavation and bearing condition, water or debris, dimensions, rebar, dowels, cover, anchor templates, sleeves, grounding items, and delivery access.
Coordinate deck forms, shoring references, edges, openings, reinforcement, tendons when applicable, MEP items, embeds, survey marks, pump route, testing, and trade confirmations.
Build the workflow
Describe the placement, edit the generated structure, test failure routing, and confirm the final record matches how your team coordinates a pour.
Name the element, area, sequence, responsible roles, planned placement time, mix reference, applicable drawing revisions, and the formwork, reinforcement, embed, logistics, and coordination checks your project requires.
Arrange sections in the order an inspector sees them. Split combined checks, add not-applicable choices, require critical identifiers, and use the same grid, elevation, element, and status language crews use in the field.
When an item fails, reveal location, observation, photo, assigned owner, target correction time, action taken, and reinspection result. Keep an unresolved failure visible in the final readiness decision.
Submit one passing example and one failed example from a phone. Check required fields, image readability, timestamps, final status, and whether the right superintendent, inspector, subcontractor, and testing contact receive the record.
Choose the right record
The best format is the one your site team can complete, review, correct, and retrieve before placement begins.
Field guide
Use these sections as an editing guide. Match the final checklist to the drawings, specifications, inspection plan, responsibilities, and release process established for the project.
Pour identity
Capture the project, date and time, building or structure, level, grid lines, element IDs, pour number, sequence, inspector, contractor, planned volume, mix reference, scheduled start, and drawing or submittal revisions reviewed.
Base and formwork
For the element being placed, include bearing or subgrade condition, blinding or vapor barrier, form dimensions, line, elevation, plumb, cleanliness, joints, chamfers, blockouts, release agent, bracing references, openings, and leakage points as applicable.
Reinforcement
Identify bar size, spacing, quantity, placement, laps, couplers, dowels, chairs, ties, and cover checks relevant to the drawings. Separate major zones so one passing response does not conceal an isolated issue at an edge, opening, or congestion point.
Embeds and interfaces
List anchor bolts, plates, inserts, sleeves, conduits, boxes, drains, waterstops, keyways, grounding components, openings, and other trade items expected in the placement. Ask for trade confirmation only where your project process calls for it.
Logistics and readiness
Add the truck route, pump location, hose or bucket path, access, lighting, washout, communication method, crew, finishing equipment, backup plan, weather preparations, sampling location, and testing contact that need confirmation before placement starts.
Correction and release
Every failed check should identify the item, exact location, observation, photo, owner, correction, and reinspection outcome. Finish with the ready-to-pour or hold decision, decision time, person recording it, comments, and recipients required by the project workflow.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for construction supervisors and inspectors moving placement-readiness checks from paper to a digital form.
Start with project, location, pour number, element IDs, date, inspector, scheduled time, mix reference, and drawing revisions. Add item-level results for the base or subgrade, formwork, dimensions and elevations, reinforcement, cover, embeds, openings, joints, access, logistics, weather preparations, and testing coordination as relevant. Failed items should collect a location, note, photo, owner, correction, and reinspection result. End with an explicit ready-to-pour or hold status.
Yes. Generate separate forms for distinct placement types or branch from an element selection. Slabs may emphasize subgrade, vapor barrier, elevations, joints, and finishing logistics. Walls and columns may emphasize line, plumb, bracing references, waterstops, ties, blockouts, and embeds. Footings may emphasize bearing condition, excavation dimensions, water, mud, dowels, anchors, and grounding items. Separate forms are easier when the inspection routes differ substantially.
Use conditional logic so fail reveals required fields for the exact location, observation, photo, responsible party, planned correction, correction time, and reinspection result. Preserve the original failure rather than overwriting it with pass. The final section should show whether the open item places the pour on hold, using the status terms and decision roles established for your project.
Yes. Publish the form as a link that inspectors can open on a phone or tablet. Keep labels concise, group checks in the order of the site walk, use consistent pass, fail, and not-applicable choices, and reveal detailed fields only after a failed result. Test a clean submission and a correction scenario on the devices used in the field, including photo upload and notification behavior.
Yes. Add file-upload fields for overall context, concealed items, and failures. Pair photos with location and description fields so the image remains interpretable later. You can also add named confirmations for the roles or trades involved in your own coordination process. Keep those confirmations specific to the project workflow and avoid turning one generic sign-off into a substitute for item-level checks.
Yes. Makeform supports unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect pre-pour inspection submissions without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge. Review the generated checklist against the current project documents and replace sample wording with the inspection points, decision roles, status choices, and routing rules your team uses before deploying it.
Submissions are collected in Makeform with results, comments, status, timestamps, and uploaded files together. You can send data to Google Sheets, notify a Slack channel, or connect workflows through Zapier. Choose destinations based on who reviews normal results, who must see failures, how pour and location IDs will be searched, and how correction evidence will be linked to the original inspection.
No. The generator helps structure the requirements you provide; it does not determine the correct inspection scope or authorize concrete placement. Build the form from the current drawings, specifications, submittals, inspection plan, and responsibilities applicable to the project. Have the contents reviewed by the people responsible for the work, and update the form when the design, sequence, placement method, or project process changes.
Make every placement decision clear.
