Concrete contract template — pour day, cracking and cure

Concrete contracts have to address the one thing every customer asks about afterwards: cracking. Here is how to set that expectation in writing, plus pour-day and weather terms.

Read this before you use it

This is a checklist of what a concrete 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.

concrete contract checklist

Download as a spreadsheet to work through, or print it to sit alongside your own agreement.

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What a concrete contract has to settle

A concrete contract has to say something honest about cracking before the pour, because concrete cracks and a customer who was never told will treat the first hairline as a defect. Control joints, their spacing and their purpose belong in the scope. Pour day is weather-bound with trucks booked in advance, so cancellation terms need to exist before the weather makes them relevant. Yardage is the commercial variable: ordered versus placed will differ, and the contract should carry the overage rate.

Clauses it needs

Parties, licence number, and the area, thickness and mix design (PSI)
Cubic yards estimated, and the unit rate for yardage over or under
Reinforcement: mesh, rebar or fibre, with spacing stated
Control joints: spacing, depth, and the plain statement that concrete cracks
Finish type — broom, trowel, exposed, stamped — and any colour or sealer
Subgrade preparation, compaction, and what happens if it proves unsuitable
Pour-day weather terms, and who bears a cancellation inside the plant window
Cure period, and when the surface may take foot and vehicle traffic
Site access for trucks, and pump hire if they cannot reach the pour
Payment: deposit, pour day, and balance after the cure period

What concrete contracts actually get argued over

Hairline cracking treated as a defect because nobody said it was normal
Ordered versus placed yardage never explained, so the overage reads as padding
Vehicles driven onto the slab before cure, then the failure blamed on the mix
A stamped or coloured upgrade agreed verbally and billed at the upgrade rate

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.

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Draft the concrete 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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