GA installation provider bonds.
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This one is not a Georgia license bond. It is a private surety bond flooring contractors post to join Lumber Liquidators, Inc.’s installation program — the retailer is the obligee, and the penal sum comes from your installation provider agreement rather than from any Georgia statute. Premiums cost 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum; the application collects no credit information. Enter the amount your agreement names and your exact price appears at the application.
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Your company details, the bond amount your agreement names, and an effective date — that is the entire application. No credit section, no financial statements.
Pay & e-sign
The premium is priced at the application off the amount you enter, so there is no quote round-trip. The executed bond and power of attorney generate as soon as payment clears.
Send it to the program
Your bond arrives by email, ready to upload to the vendor onboarding portal or send to your program contact. Nothing gets filed with a Georgia agency. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the installation provider bond actually guarantees
A national flooring retailer sells the material and then subcontracts the labour to independent installers in each market. The retailer keeps the customer relationship and the warranty exposure, so it wants recourse if an installer damages a home, abandons a job, or ignores the agreement it signed. That recourse is this bond — a three-party arrangement between the installer (the principal), the surety carrier, and Lumber Liquidators, Inc. as the obligee. There is no Georgia agency in the chain at all.
The bond typically guarantees that the installation provider will comply with the conditions of the signed installation provider agreement and with the state and local laws that govern the work. It is not a consumer license bond, it is not recorded with a clerk, and it is not filed with the Secretary of State — the retailer holds it and the retailer is the party that would proceed on it. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The penal sum is the surety’s ceiling, not money you deposit.
It also does not replace anything Georgia requires of you separately. Georgia licenses residential and general contractors through the State Licensing Board for Residential and General Contractors under O.C.G.A. Chapter 43-41, and O.C.G.A. § 43-41-17 exempts recognised specialty trade contractors performing work inside their specialty — the category flooring and floor-covering work normally falls into. That exemption does not reach work licensed separately under O.C.G.A. Chapter 43-14 (electrical, plumbing, conditioned air, low-voltage), and it does not touch the county or city occupational tax certificate you need to operate locally. Confirm your own classification with the board. One more thing worth knowing: the business traded as LL Flooring until it was sold in 2024 and reverted to the Lumber Liquidators name, so confirm current program terms and the bond amount with your onboarding contact before you buy.
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These are the actual issuing fields — company details, the bond amount your agreement names, and an effective date. No credit section, and your exact price appears here.
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