Delaware Home Improvement Contract

Delaware Home Improvement Contract

Before signing: Contractor must give Buyer the Delaware Consumer Protection Unit's Summary of Your Rights as a Consumer in Home Improvement Transactions. Fill in every final term first. This agreement is for an existing-home project outside a covered door-to-door sale. That category can include a sale solicited and completed by telephone. For a covered in-person solicitation away from the contractor's permanent business location, use the separate Delaware door-to-door contract with its cancellation notices. Check telephone sales under 6 Del. C. chapter 44 before using this agreement.

Agreement date: [__/__/____]

Buyer name: [________________________________]

Buyer mailing address: [________________________________]

Improvement site: [________________________________]

Contractor legal name: [________________________________]

Contractor business address: [________________________________]

Contractor telephone: [____________] Email: [________________________]

Contractor website: [URL / NONE]

Buyer and Contractor agree as follows:

1. Work and materials

Contractor shall furnish the labor, supervision, services, and materials described below for the improvement site. Identify the work with enough detail to distinguish what is included, including quantities, manufacturer, model, finish, and location where relevant. Signed drawings or specifications identified here form part of this agreement.

Detailed scope: [DESCRIBE EACH WORK ITEM AND MATERIAL]

Signed plans/specifications: [EXHIBIT NAME AND DATE / NONE]

Excluded work and items supplied by Buyer: [DETAILS / NONE]

Permits and inspections; responsible party: [DETAILS]

Contractor shall perform the stated work in a workmanlike manner and follow applicable permits. Buyer shall provide reasonable access during [HOURS] and the utilities or selections listed here: [DETAILS / NONE].

2. Price, financing, and charges

Pricing method (select one): ☐ Fixed price ☐ Cost plus, as completed below.

Fixed total contract price, including listed charges: $[AMOUNT / NOT APPLICABLE].

Cost-plus method, if selected: Documented cost categories: [LABOR, MATERIALS, SUBCONTRACTORS, AND OTHER CATEGORIES]. Contractor's addition to cost: [EXACT PERCENTAGE OR FEE AND CALCULATION METHOD]. Good-faith estimate of final price: $[AMOUNT]. The final amount is determined by the stated method and supported by itemized records. Contractor shall give Buyer copies of those records with each invoice.

Delivery charges: $[AMOUNT / 0]. Installment charges: $[AMOUNT / 0]. Other fees included in the price or estimate: [ITEMIZE AMOUNT AND PURPOSE / NONE]. No other charge is owed unless the parties sign a written change order stating its price effect.

Financing: ☐ Buyer pays without contractor-arranged financing. ☐ Financing terms are in signed Exhibit [NAME], including lender, principal, rate, finance charges, payment schedule, and conditions. The parties shall complete any legally required credit disclosures separately.

3. Schedule, changes, and completion

Expected start date: [__/__/____]. Approximate completion date: [__/__/____].

Contractor shall complete the work by the stated completion date, subject to events beyond Contractor's control and any later date Buyer agrees to in writing. Contractor shall promptly give Buyer a written explanation of a material delay and proposed new date. A change to scope, materials, price, or schedule is effective only in a written change order signed by both parties before changed work begins.

At completion, the parties will inspect the work and list any unfinished or disputed items in a signed punch list with a correction schedule. Signing a punch list does not waive claims for defective or incomplete work.

4. Express warranties and service

Contractor makes the following express promises about materials or workmanship: [DESCRIBE COVERAGE, LENGTH, START DATE, CLAIM PROCEDURE, AND REMEDY / STATE THAT NONE ARE OFFERED]. Any manufacturer's warranty delivered with a product is identified here: [PRODUCT, MANUFACTURER, AND WARRANTY DOCUMENT / NONE]. Contractor shall deliver the listed warranty documents by [DATE OR EVENT].

Installation and delivery coverage under any product warranty: [DESCRIBE COVERAGE / CLEARLY STATE THAT THE PRODUCT WARRANTY COVERS NEITHER INSTALLATION NOR DELIVERY]. No oral promise is excluded by an unstated term. This contract contains no limitation of warranty or legal remedy unless a separate, clearly and conspicuously written limitation is added here and initialed by Buyer: [EXACT LIMITATION / NONE]. Buyer's initials for any stated limitation: [____ / NOT APPLICABLE].

5. Notices, complete agreement, and signatures

Buyer may send a notice about this project to Contractor at the business address or email stated above. Contractor may send a notice to Buyer at the mailing address or email [BUYER EMAIL / NONE]. This agreement, its identified signed exhibits, and signed change orders contain the agreed project terms. Delaware law governs. Neither party is bound until both have signed; each receives a completed copy.

Consumer Protection Unit summary delivered to Buyer before Buyer signed: ☐ Yes. Delivery date and method: [__/__/____; HAND / EMAIL / OTHER]. Buyer acknowledgment of receipt: [INITIALS]. This acknowledgment records delivery; it does not waive any right.

Buyer signature: ____________________ Date: [__/__/____]

Contractor authorized signature: ____________________ Date: [__/__/____]

Printed name and title: [________________________________]

Completed agreement and signed exhibits delivered to Buyer: [DATE AND METHOD]

Sources and references

• 6 Del. Admin. Code § 106, Home Improvement Services
• Delaware Department of Justice home improvement regulation page
• Consumer Protection Unit summary