Home Insurance essential when undertaking DIY work

Wed, 23 Apr 2008

Homeowners in the UK need to ensure that they have the right home insurance when their neighbours carry out DIY projects.

A new study by Halifax Home Insurance has indicated that each year Britons cause £173 million of damage to their neighbours property when undertaking DIY or home improvement projects.

Last year, 594,960 families in the country said their property had been damaged by neighbours’ home renovation disasters and over a third said they had covered the cost of repairs themselves, highlighting the importance of the right insurance policies .

David Rochester, head of underwriting at Halifax Home Insurance, commented: "A number of errant DIYers are not just damaging their properties, but their neighbours' homes too. Even more interesting is that so many victims handle the situation with typically British aplomb. Over two-thirds of them chose to pay towards the cost of repairing their home, rather than create a fuss. He added that perhaps some homeowners were unaware that they could claim for repairing the damage on their neighbours’ insurance policy .
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