The City of Edina requires a fixed $25,000 bond for a steam and hot water installer license — the license to install and service steam and hot water heating systems within the City. Ours is $750 flat, which is 3% of the bond amount, with no credit check.
















A City license bond is the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That is the application — no financials, no credit check section.
City license bonds like this are among the bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your steam and hot water installer license application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$25,000 bond × 3% = $750, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
The City of Edina licenses steam and hot water installers — the contractors who install and service steam and hot water heating systems within the City — and conditions that license on a fixed $25,000 surety bond. The bond is a code-compliance and public-safety guarantee: it stands behind your installations meeting the City’s mechanical code.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Edina (the obligee). If an installer violates the City’s code or leaves an unsafe or defective installation, the City can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays the City, you repay the surety. Installers who work to code treat the $25,000 bond as a routine license formality.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond does not have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$750 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.