Free Plumbing Task List Template (with Code Hold Points)

A task that cannot be closed out — and whose work cannot be covered — until a named test or inspection has been made and approved. On plumbing that means the three inspections in 2018 IPC Section 107.2 (underground, rough-in, final) and the tests in Section 312. Everything else on the list is an ordinary task: it is done when the work is done. The distinction matters because Section 107.1 makes the permit holder responsible for keeping permitted work accessible and exposed until it is approved, and puts the cost of uncovering it back on you.

Three, under 2018 IPC Section 107.2. The underground inspection (107.2.1) is made after the trench is excavated and bedded and the piping installed, and before any backfill goes in. The rough-in inspection (107.2.2) is made after roof, framing, fireblocking, firestopping, draftstopping and bracing are in place and the sanitary, storm and water distribution piping is roughed in, and before wall or ceiling membranes go on. The final inspection (107.2.3) is made after the building is complete, the fixtures are in place and properly connected, and the structure is ready for occupancy. "Top-out" and "trim" are trade names for the work between those inspections, not separate code inspections — this builder keeps them as phases because that is how the work is scheduled, but it does not pretend they are code stages.

From 2018 IPC Section 312: the drainage and vent water test uses a head of not less than 10 feet of water held at least 15 minutes; the air test uses 5 psi, or enough to balance a 10-inch mercury column, for not less than 15 minutes; the water supply test uses not less than the system working pressure, or air at not less than 50 psi on piping systems other than plastic, for 15 minutes; a gravity building sewer is plugged at the public sewer and held at a 10-foot head for 15 minutes; a forced sewer is held at 5 psi above the pump rating for 15 minutes; a shower liner is flooded to not less than 2 inches at the threshold for not less than 15 minutes with no evidence of leakage; and the final test after the traps are filled uses smoke or peppermint, the smoke version holding a pressure equivalent to a 1-inch water column for 15 minutes. Each of those sits in the tooltip on its hold point in the builder.

Because a hold-point task in that phase is still open, and the sheet names it. That is the gate, and it is the reason this template is not just a to-do grid. A phase reads "cannot close out" until every hold point in it is done, then moves to "in progress" while ordinary tasks remain, then "complete". You can still mark individual tasks however you like — the gate reports, it does not lock your data.

Yes. Any task on the list can be flagged as a hold point, and it gates the phase exactly like a code one. Use it for specification hold points, submittal or shop-drawing approvals, a general contractor's witness points, a water authority sign-off, or anything else that has to be seen before the work gets buried. The fixed library only covers the code items, because those are the ones with a published source behind them.

A task is overdue when it has a due date earlier than the sheet's "as of" date and its status is not done. The "as of" date is the date field in the job header — not the system clock. That is deliberate: a task list you exported and handed to a crew should say the same thing tomorrow as it said when you printed it, and a spreadsheet whose flags change every time it is opened is a spreadsheet nobody trusts.

Because there is no authoritative published source for plumbing task durations or productivity rates, and inventing one would make every downstream date wrong in a way that looks authoritative. Estimating books exist, they disagree with each other, and none of them is a standard. So the sheet takes the dates you commit to and does arithmetic you can check — open versus done, overdue against a date you set, and hold points open per phase — rather than predicting a schedule it has no basis for.

No. It is the contractor's own scheduling and sign-off record. It is not an inspection approval, not a test report, and it does not certify compliance — the authority having jurisdiction issues the approval, and the test report is its own document. Every export carries that note in full. Also check the edition your jurisdiction adopted: Chapter 1 of the IPC was renumbered in the 2021 edition, so the administrative section numbers cited here (107.1, 107.2) belong to the 2018 IPC, while the Section 312 test numbers are unchanged.