Disclosures

Last updated 2026-08-05

Every notice this site carries, in full, with what requires it. Where one of these appears beside something on another page, it links back to the entry here.

4 of the entries below have not yet been checked against their primary source and are marked as such. They are drafts, and they are flagged here rather than quietly shipped as though they were settled.

A residential contractor's license line is the one piece of footer furniture a homeowner in this trade actually looks for. The row stays and the number does not: a marketing page is not the authoritative record of anybody's licensure, and a number published here that is wrong, stale, or transposed gets quoted back — and in this trade reported to the board that issues it — with the damage landing on whoever actually holds it. The Secretary of State's licensee search is the record, and the proposal carries the number in writing.

Georgia requires residential and general contractors to be licensed through the Secretary of State. We do not publish a license number here: our number is given to you in writing with your proposal, it appears on every permit application filed for your project, and the state's licensee search is the authoritative record either way. Ask us for it at any point and you will have it the same day.

Required by: Georgia Secretary of State — residential and general contractors (O.C.G.A. § 43-41)
Wording: House rule — editable in config/compliance.ts.
Checked: Not yet checked against the primary source.

"Architect" and "registered interior designer" are protected titles under Georgia law, and a design-build firm is exactly the kind of business somebody expects to hold them. The position is stated once, in the footer legal rail, rather than argued again wherever design work is described.

Our designers are professional designers. "Architect" and "registered interior designer" are titles protected under Georgia law, and no one at Thackston Design + Build holds them or uses them. We do not provide architectural services. Where a project requires a licensed architect or engineer, we bring one in and say so.

Required by: Georgia licensing boards — O.C.G.A. § 43-4 (architects); O.C.G.A. § 43-4-30 et seq. (registered interior designers)
Wording: Prescribed — rendered verbatim and not editable at any call site.
Checked: Not yet checked against the primary source.

Home-improvement contracting is the part of this trade with the most consumer-protection weight on it, and phase four is where the written contract, the itemized scope, the payment schedule, the dates and the rescission right all attach at once. The full terms are collected here, and phase four links to them.

Required by: Georgia Fair Business Practices Act, O.C.G.A. § 10-1-393; FTC Cooling-Off Rule, 16 CFR Part 429
Wording: Prescribed — rendered verbatim and not editable at any call site.
Source: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-429
Checked: Not yet checked against the primary source.

A homeowner who receives a preliminary notice from a subcontractor mid-project and has never been told it is routine will assume something has gone wrong. Explaining it before it arrives is worth more than explaining it afterwards.

Required by: Georgia lien law — O.C.G.A. § 44-14-361 et seq.; Notice to Contractor and preliminary notice provisions
Wording: Prescribed — rendered verbatim and not editable at any call site.
Checked: Not yet checked against the primary source.

Lead-safe practice in pre-1978 housing is genuinely required, genuinely changes the schedule and the number, and is the detail most remodelers get wrong by omission. It also has a Georgia twist most contractors get wrong in the other direction.

Homes built before 1978 may contain lead-based paint. Federal law requires that work disturbing painted surfaces in those homes be performed by a certified firm, and that the EPA's "Renovate Right" pamphlet be provided to you before work begins.

The rule exempts minor work disturbing six square feet or less of paint per room inside, or twenty square feet or less outside — but window replacement and demolition of painted surfaces are always covered, regardless of how small the area is. That is the part most contractors miss.

Georgia runs its own authorized program rather than deferring to the federal one, so a Georgia firm certifies with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. Containment, cleaning and verification add time and money to a pre-1978 project, and we build that into the proposal rather than discovering it later.

Required by: EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule — 40 CFR Part 745 Subpart E; administered in Georgia by Georgia EPD
Wording: Prescribed — rendered verbatim and not editable at any call site.
Source: https://www.epa.gov/lead/lead-renovation-repair-and-painting-program
Checked: 2026-08-06

A written warranty's terms have to be available. "Five-year workmanship warranty" with no scope and no exclusions beside it is the version that reads as a promise and is not one, and Magnuson-Moss is the reason that matters rather than a style preference. It stays beside the Warranty Walk, which is the phase that owns it; everywhere else the warranty is mentioned, the terms are a link away.

Required by: Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq.; FTC rules on written warranty terms, 16 CFR Part 701
Wording: Prescribed — rendered verbatim and not editable at any call site.
Source: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-701
Checked: 2026-08-06

Publishing four ranges is the most useful thing this firm does before a first meeting, and the easiest thing it does to misread as a quote. Naming what the ranges describe, and where the actual number comes from, is what keeps them honest — so the basis stays with the ranges on The Right Fit, and the ranges are not published anywhere the basis is not.

Required by: FTC Act § 5 — deceptive pricing
Wording: Prescribed — rendered verbatim and not editable at any call site.
Source: https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/rules/guides-against-deceptive-pricing
Checked: 2026-08-06

Regulation Z makes certain financing terms triggering terms in an advertisement: state one and the advertisement must disclose the others. This firm advertises no rate, no term and no monthly figure anywhere, which is the simplest fully-compliant posture available — and this notice is what makes that posture explicit rather than accidental.

Required by: Truth in Lending Act, Regulation Z — 12 CFR § 1026.24 (advertising)
Wording: Prescribed — rendered verbatim and not editable at any call site.
Source: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-12/chapter-X/part-1026/subpart-C/section-1026.24
Checked: 2026-08-06

Required by: Unthought house rule
Wording: House rule — editable in config/compliance.ts.
Checked: 2026-08-06

"Architect" and "registered interior designer" are protected titles under Georgia law, and a design-build firm is exactly the kind of business somebody expects to hold them. The position is stated once, in the footer legal rail, rather than argued again wherever design work is described.

A homeowner who receives a preliminary notice from a subcontractor mid-project and has never been told it is routine will assume something has gone wrong. Explaining it before it arrives is worth more than explaining it afterwards.

Lead-safe practice in pre-1978 housing is genuinely required, genuinely changes the schedule and the number, and is the detail most remodelers get wrong by omission. It also has a Georgia twist most contractors get wrong in the other direction.

The inquiry form asks for a phone number, an address, and up to ten photographs of somebody's house. Saying what happens to them, at the moment they are handed over, is the minimum — and it is the sentence a consent control has to point at rather than invent.