SD–CON–13 · United States · not scoped to any state · one job, call to invoice
49-page agreement · 17 sections · plus fill-in checklist, how-to guide and sources · 100 pages across 4 files
The wall came off, there was old wiring behind it, and nobody had agreed what happens next.
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The paperwork for small residential work, from the telephone call to the signed invoice: an hourly or flat-rate election initialled before a tool comes out of the van, a materials and markup disclosure, a scope-of-work checklist covering 38 job types, a 40-line pre-existing condition survey signed by the customer, a permit and licensing responsibility page that assigns without pretending to know what your town requires, a 25-line concealed-condition procedure for what turns up behind a wall, a page that raises paint in a pre-1978 property and records what the property actually is, a workmanship page keeping three different promises apart, and an invoice. 1,246 fill-in blanks across 18 sections. It never says which work needs a permit, it never says what credential anybody holds or needs, and it says in its own words that a signature agrees to work on a customer's property and does nothing else. It cites no regulation.
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The rest of the set
Businesses like yours usually start with these. It is where a trade starts, not a complete legal inventory of everything it could ever be asked for — no list on any website is that. Every line below says where it came from.
Showing what a handyman / small repairs is asked to carry. It is the only trade on our list that needs this document.
Handyman / small repairsSeven items on the list, two of them a multi-file kit rather than a single document. You are looking at one of them. We sell four of the other six; two we do not have yet.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Named because leaving them out would make the list look complete when it is not. Tell us which one you need and it goes on the build queue with your trade attached.
REGA regulator asks for this.
29 CFR 1926.62
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Your state can add to this. We have written down one place where this trade’s set differs from one state to the next. What we sell is written to the federal baseline, and a state that runs its own programme can ask for more than the federal rule does.
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01The agreement itself, 18 sections with 1,246 fill-in fields, as a PDF you can type into
02A 40-line pre-existing condition survey with a photograph reference against every line, signed before a tool comes out of the van
03A 38-line scope-of-work checklist by job type, and a 16-row task list for the visit
04An hourly or flat-rate election, initialled, with a full rate card and a time record
05A materials and markup disclosure, with a 14-row materials log showing who supplied what
06A permit and licensing responsibility page recording the question asked, the person who answered, the date and the reference
07A page on paint in an older property: five sentences from the federal agency, then the questions that decide it and a record of the answers
08A page saying in plain words what a customer's signature does and does not do
09A 25-line concealed-condition list with a stop-and-record procedure and a find log
010An access, keys and conduct page covering dust, protection and securing the property
011A pre-existing condition limitation with a 15-line advance explanation of what old buildings do
012A workmanship page keeping the maker's promise, your labour and somebody else's work apart
013A punch list, an invoice and a six-task setup page to do once before a first customer
Plain-English Monday actions
Questions
Section 9 sets the rule: work on that task stops before the find is disturbed further, it is photographed, the customer is told, and what happens next is agreed in writing in the concealed-condition log before anything else is done. The list covers 25 finds, including wiring, leaks, rot, mould, suspect materials and cut structural members.
Either. Section 5 records the election before a tool comes out of the van: which basis, which tasks if both apply, who chose it and whether the customer was offered the other. The customer initials it, and there is a full rate card and a time record behind it.
No. Section 7 assigns responsibility between you and the customer and records what a named person at the permit office said about this particular job: who was asked, the date, their words and any reference number, plus who applies, who pays and who meets the inspector.
A 40-line walk of the work area with a photograph reference against every line, done before work starts. The customer confirms they walked it with you, that it records what was already there and that they saw the photographs, and anything they dispute is written in their own words.
Official-source registry
These are the real rules this plan is built on. Every citation was read against the published text on the date shown above, and each link goes to the official source, not to a summary.
Exclusions
Before you buy
When the law behind this agreement moves, or a clause keeps causing an argument, we rewrite it and the new version lands in your account. You do not pay again. That applies to everyone who buys, member or not, for as long as we sell this document.
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If a file is the wrong one, will not open, is missing pages, or does not match what this page says, that is on us and we correct it at no cost, member or not. A version fitted to your business is either included with membership or $49 on its own. That promise is the reason the no-refund rule is fair.
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One more time, plainly: this is a blank agreement and it is scoped to no state. Every state-specific figure in it is left blank for you to fill from your own, and whether what you write in holds is decided by your state's law, often your city's. Check yours before you rely on it.
