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Flooring scope checklist for bid levelling

Floor preparation and moisture mitigation are the change orders waiting to happen.

Level flooring bids with this templateSee a levelled example

The scope lines

Ask every bidder to say, for each line, whether it is priced, included, or excluded. A line a bid never mentions is the one that turns into a change order.

  1. 1Carpet tile
  2. 2Luxury vinyl tile
  3. 3Ceramic and porcelain tile
  4. 4Rubber base
  5. 5Floor preparation and levelling
  6. 6Moisture testing
  7. 7Moisture mitigation
  8. 8Transitions and trims
  9. 9Attic stock

Usual alternates

Compared side by side, never in the base total.

  • Sealed concrete

Where flooring bids differ

The gaps worth a written answer from every bidder before award.

  • Floor preparation and levelling excluded, or limited to minor patching.
  • Moisture testing included but moisture mitigation excluded, which is where the cost is.
  • Transitions, trims and rubber base split between flooring and other finishes.
  • Attic stock quantities missing or different between bids.

Level it instead of reading it

Open this checklist in the Bid Leveler, type or paste each bid against it, and every gap is priced, every bid ranked like for like, and a clarification email written for each sub. Free, in your browser.

Open the flooring template

Drop in every proposal. Get one levelled sheet.

Drop in the sub proposals as PDFs or pasted email text and review each one line by line before it goes in, or paste from Excel, or start from a trade template. See every exclusion priced, the real low bid, and a clarification email for each sub. Free. No account, no card, no call.

Open the Bid Leveler

The levelling runs in your browser. GeneralBid only sees a proposal you choose to have read, and does not store it, or a sheet you choose to save as a share link.