Template: workmanship warranty statement (one page, attached to the contract)
In one paragraph
A one-page warranty statement that promises exactly what a small electrical contractor can keep: one year on workmanship from final inspection, the manufacturer's warranty on devices with your help making the claim, a written list of what is not covered, a claims procedure with a response time you can meet, and a plain-language paragraph saying the warranty does not limit the customer's rights under California law, including the right to complain to CSLB within the statutory period. It contains no gag clause and no consequential-damages promise. Beside the blank, the statement filled in for a 200-amp service upgrade with a two-year workmanship term the contractor's price book supports.
The rule
A warranty statement attached to a home improvement contract is one of its incorporated documents (B&P 7159(d)(12)); it may not shorten the customer's statutory right to complain to CSLB within four years of a patent act (7091(a)), may not contain any term waiving the customer's right to make statements about the contractor (Civil Code 1670.8), and, because devices are installed under their listing (2025 CEC 110.3(B)), it properly places device failures under the manufacturer's warranty and the installation under the contractor's.
Why it matters
The warranty statement is the page customers keep on the refrigerator, and the page an investigator reads to see whether you promised more than the law or less than the truth. Written as below, it turns callbacks into short visits, keeps device failures where they belong, and never gives a customer or a regulator a sentence to quote against you.