South Carolina Lumber Liquidators installer bonds.
From $100.
Lumber Liquidators requires the independent contractors in its installation provider program to post a surety bond naming the retailer as obligee. It is a private contractual requirement, not a South Carolina statute, and your Provider Agreement sets the amount. Premiums cost 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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How much does a South Carolina Lumber Liquidators installer bond cost?
0.5% of the bond amount, from $100. Enter your amount in the calculator for the exact price.
Three steps. One sitting.
There is no agency queue behind a contractual installer bond — enter your amount, pay, and send the executed bond to your provider contact. The whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the bond amount your Provider Agreement requires, and an effective date. That is the application. No credit check up to $100,000.
Issued
No credit check up to $100,000, and most applications approve instantly. Larger amounts can draw a brief look.
Send it to your provider contact
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email. Forward the PDF to the installation-program contact who asked for it; wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the installation provider bond actually covers
Big-box flooring is sold by the retailer and installed by independent contractors the retailer clears into an installation program. Lumber Liquidators — the flooring chain that has also traded as LL Flooring — runs one of those programs, and its Installation Provider Agreement conditions participation on a surety bond in the retailer’s favor.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and Lumber Liquidators, Inc. (the obligee). The bond backs your performance of the Provider Agreement — that you complete assigned installations, do the work in line with the state and local law that governs it, carry what the agreement requires you to carry, and make good on damage or defective installation rather than leaving the retailer to absorb a customer’s claim.
That last point is why the retailer wants it. When a homeowner’s floor fails, the customer’s complaint lands with the store that sold the job, not the crew that laid it. The bond gives the retailer a funded route to recover what it pays out, and gives the homeowner a solvent backstop behind an installer they never chose.
The bond is not a South Carolina license. It sits alongside whatever LLR licensing your scope of work triggers — flooring work can cross into registration or licensure thresholds depending on the value and type of the job — and it does not satisfy any of it. Check your scope with the Board separately. If the surety pays a claim under this bond, you repay the surety.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
Issued. No credit check up to $100,000, and most applications approve instantly. Larger amounts can draw a brief look.
What sets the price
The premium is 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum: the amount the obligee sets moves the price, not your business profile.
No credit check up to $100,000. Above that, the carrier may run a soft pull, which never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — your business details and the bond amount your Provider Agreement requires. No credit check up to $100,000.
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0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, no credit check up to $100,000. Free until issued.