Bathroom remodel contract template — allowances, draws and completion
A bathroom remodel contract has to define three things precisely: what the allowances cover, when each draw is earned, and what counts as finished.
This is a checklist of what a bathroom remodel contract has to settle — not a ready-to-sign legal document, and not legal advice. Most states regulate home improvement contracts: required disclosures, cancellation windows, deposit limits and licence display all vary, and some trades carry extra rules. Adapt this, then have a lawyer in your state review it before you put it in front of a customer.
Download as a spreadsheet to work through, or print it to sit alongside your own agreement.
What a bathroom remodel contract has to settle
Bathroom remodels are the contract most likely to end in an argument about the last ten percent. Fixtures and tile are chosen after signing, so the contract runs on allowances and has to say how over and under are reconciled. Draws must attach to stages a third party could verify, not to calendar dates. And substantial completion needs a definition with a punch-list deadline attached, because an undefined punch list is an open-ended reason not to pay.
Clauses it needs
- Parties, licence number, property address and the contract sum
- Scope by stage: demolition, rough-in, close-up, finish
- Allowances per category — fixtures, tile, vanity — with reconciliation rules
- Who supplies each fixture, and who bears the cost of a late or wrong delivery
- Concealed conditions allowance with unit rates, since the plumbing is the oldest in the house
- Draw schedule tied to verifiable stages, not dates
- Substantial completion defined, with a punch-list deadline
- Permit responsibility, and the rough and final inspections
- Change orders in writing before the work, signed by both
- Single-bathroom households: whether the space must be usable overnight
What bathroom remodel contracts actually get argued over
- Allowances never reconciled, so the final number looks invented
- A punch list with no end date, used to hold the final draw
- Customer-supplied fixtures arriving wrong, with no clause on who absorbs the delay
- Subfloor rot at the flange billed with no allowance and no photograph
The estimate this contract is built on
A contract can only be as clear as the scope it references. BidWand drafts the itemised estimate — labour, materials, exclusions and assumptions — that the scope and exclusions clauses point at.
Draft the bathroom remodel estimate this contract references
This generates the estimate, not the contract — describe the job and you get the itemised scope to attach. No email needed to see the first one.
What you get — see the format first
A complete estimate you can send to the customer, built from the rate you enter:
| Description | Qty | Unit | Unit price | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor — itemized by task | hrs | hour | your rate | — |
| Materials — with your markup applied | qty | ea / sq ft | cost + markup | — |
| Permits, disposal, access | — | — | — | — |
Plus a plain-English scope summary, assumptions (what had to be guessed), exclusions (what you are not doing — the section that prevents most change-order arguments), and a validity period. Printable, or send the link.
Every figure comes from the rate and markup you supply. We never fill in a market price for you.
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