Termite Bond Agreement Template (.docx)

A termite bond is not a service agreement with the word termite dropped into it. It is a warranty on a building: an initial treatment, a standing inspection obligation, a renewal that keeps the promise alive and kills it when it lapses, and a defined route for the customer to make a claim. Fill the fields above and an 18-clause bond assembles in the open tab, with no account to create and nothing leaving the page. Any blank you skip prints as a bracketed placeholder, so the draft is usable before you have typed a word. Download the editable Word file, or print straight to PDF.

Bond type is the field that rewrites the contract

Pick it first, because it is the only decision in the document that reaches into three clauses and a money line at once.

The third row is a real option, not a gap. A treatment sold with no warranty at all is a legitimate thing to sell, and saying so plainly is safer than a document that leaves the reader to guess. Florida takes the same view from the other direction: section 482.227(2), F.S., requires any contract for treatment of wood-destroying organisms to specify on the first page in bold print that it is offered for repair and retreatment or for retreatment only, or that no warranty or guarantee is offered. The template prints the selected type as a first-page banner for exactly that reason.

The four clauses a general agreement has no reason to contain

A pest control service agreement covers recurring treatment of general pests: scope, cadence, price and a between-visits re-service promise. It is the right document for a quarterly route, and it is the wrong document for a warranty on a structure. Four clauses mark the difference, and each one is an argument you avoid later:

• Covered structures, named individually. The main dwelling, the attached garage, the porch, the shed. A structure you did not tick is not covered, and a structure added or attached after the initial treatment is not covered either unless it is treated and added in writing. Linear feet treated prints alongside it, because that is the unit the treatment was actually measured in.
• A standing inspection obligation. Annual, semi-annual, quarterly or on request. The tool computes the next inspection date from the initial treatment date and the cadence, and the clause commits you to a written report after each one saying whether covered organisms were found and whether you re-treated.
• A renewal that ends coverage when it lapses. The bond does not auto-renew. Enter a renewal-year count and the document prints the anniversary dates the renewals fall due, so nobody has to argue later about when year three started.
• A transfer clause. Property sells, bond moves or bond ends. There is no neutral default, so the document states one either way.

To that add the exclusion list, which in a bond is load-bearing rather than boilerplate. Wood-to-ground contact left uncorrected, standing water and roof or plumbing leaks, areas that were inaccessible at the time of treatment, alterations made afterwards, soil disturbance that breaches the treated zone. Each prints as a named limitation, because the whole point is that the customer read it. The clause-by-clause background on how service contracts are structured is in service agreement clauses; the treatment side, trench gallons and station counts and slab pre-treat, sits in the termite treatment sizing hub.

Every money field is blank on purpose

The initial treatment price, the annual renewal fee, the escalation cap, the repair limit, the transfer fee and the insurance amount are all empty, and nothing on this page multiplies any of them. The renewal schedule the tool prints is deliberately dates only for the same reason. Fieldwynn asserts no termite bond benchmark because no primary source publishes one: follow the circulating figures and they resolve to homeowner cost pages and lead-generation directories quoting each other, not a regulator, a trade body or a published survey.

The honest route to a number is your own carrying cost. The termite bond pricing calculator builds it from the annual re-inspection labor, a funded retreat reserve, a repair reserve where the bond promises repair, station upkeep and admin, then divides by your target margin. Type the result into the blank fields here. For the wider model, a warranty bolted to recurring revenue, see bond plan.

The word “bonded” is a claim, not a description

In the trade a termite bond means the renewable warranty you sell. A surety or performance bond means a financial instrument backed by a third party. They share a word and nothing else, and at least one state regulates the collision directly. Georgia’s Rule 620-4-.01(3) provides that while pest control licensees are not required to maintain performance bonds, any licensee who advertises or otherwise represents itself as being bonded must maintain a master or blanket bond equal to five percent of the previous year gross sales or gross liability assumed, whichever is higher, up to a maximum of $100,000, or provide a separate bond for each job, advise each customer in writing as part of every proposal or contract whether it is covered by that bond, submit proof to the Commission, and not advertise as bonded otherwise. The caution prints on every copy of the document, in every state, because the word usually arrives from a franchise brochure rather than from a lawyer.

State disclosures are cited or they are blank

The state disclosure block is a lookup, never a generator. Select Florida and it prints the written-contract requirement, the first-page bold-print rules on bond type and on limitations, the list of what the contract must set out, the requirement that bond obligations be quoted in the bond’s own wording, and the inspection and retreatment response times, each quoted with its source. Select Georgia and it prints the “bonded” restriction and the separate ninety-day guarantee that attaches to the Official Georgia Wood Infestation Inspection Report.

Select anything else and it prints a block saying, in as many words, that no requirement was verified for that state and none is being asserted. That is the honest output, not a shortfall: a template that invented a disclosure requirement for a state nobody checked would be worse than one that admits the gap and leaves you a field to paste your regulator’s own wording into. The Florida Administrative Code compilation read for this page is the July 2018 edition published at flrules.org, so confirm the current rule text with FDACS before you issue a Florida bond.

None of this is legal advice, and none of it is a compliance record. The treatment clause records the product and method you agreed to, not what any regulator requires you to log. Have the finished document reviewed for your jurisdiction, and price the treatment behind it with the termite treatment cost estimator before you commit to a number you have to honor for the life of the bond.