SC Lumber Liquidators installer bonds.
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Lumber Liquidators requires the independent contractors in its installation provider program to post a surety bond naming the retailer as obligee before they take assigned flooring work. It is a private contractual requirement, not a South Carolina statute — the amount comes from your Provider Agreement, not from a code section. Premiums cost 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum; the application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly.
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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:
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Your business details, the bond amount your Provider Agreement requires, and an effective date. That is the entire application — there is no credit section in it.
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The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly. Larger amounts can draw a brief look, and if a check ever runs it is a soft pull that will not touch your score.
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 favour.
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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These are the actual issuing fields — your business details and the bond amount your Provider Agreement requires. There is no credit section in this application.
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0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, no credit section in the application. Free until issued.