Home Insurance Building

Home and building insurance provides the cover of structure and the contents of your house as well as all items fixed in it: roof, walls, floor, bathroom, living room, bedroom, doors, windows, cupboards, tables, chairs, and other types of furniture. The separated spaces such as a garage or wash-house are also included in this cover. Your personal belongings (things which you can take with you at the time of moving are considered as personal) will be covered by building and contents insurance.

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While applying for home buildings insurance quotes, you should know what natural or anthropogenic disasters are covered:

  • fire;
  • fallen trees;
  • acts of vandalism;
  • lightning (an ordinary and a ball one);
  • burglary or theft;
  • flood;
  • explosion (gas/oil);
  • vehicle impact (a fallen plane or a car crashed into your house);
  • pipes which have burst because of a sharp frost;
  • storm;
  • water leak which caused house damage;
  • damage incurred by lamp post or satellite dishes;
  • tornadoes or earthquakes (in some regions).

 

You bear responsibility for the property even if you don’t live in it. For example, you have already bought an old building and would like to repair it before moving in, while you live in another place (with your relatives, in a hotel or a hired flat). However, you incur a liability for insuring this property from the moment the contract is signed.

If you are selling your property or are going to make it, you are still responsible for a house. You bear responsibility till you sign the contract with a buyer. The building insurance must be in force within this period. If you take off the responsibility and repossess a house, you also account for it. In some cases the insurance company asks somebody to take care of the property.

Landlords must take responsibility for their property and so if you are a tenant, you should make sure that this property is insured. Nevertheless, if you cause damage yourself, the repairs won’t be covered.

 

Some insurance companies provide clients with optional covers, which they can add themselves, such as:

  1. Fusion. If you have vehicles or devices with electric motors, which may burn out, you can include this point in insurance policy. As a result, you will receive money to pay service call, repairing it in full or a part of it.
  2. Accidents, which caused damage. For example, your neighbor has smoked near your house and so you have your lawn burned down.
  3. Covers for pet lovers. The company may pay you up to $2,000 if your cat, dog, or another pet got into an accident and needs a vet help.

 

Home Building and Contents Insurance

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Cheap buildings and contents insurance will defray the cost of your personal belongings in case if they are stolen or destroyed. In general this policy offers the same benefits and coverage as the home insurance. The most essential aspect you should think of, while applying for this cover, is the actual price and value of all your personal belongings. So, examine each room of your house and make notes trying to remember the approximate or exact cost of every item. After this, make calculations in order to estimate the value in general. Upon completion, you can turn to the insurance company. The average price comes up to $30,000-40,000.

Most insurance companies prefer to insure some items separately, especially those which are of highest value. It relates to private collections of coins, masterpieces, vinyl records, vine bottles, and other expensive things. They consider these items of such a value that they have to be presented in a separate contract so that the person could have more money in the form of coverage. If the price of any item is higher than $1,000, it can be called representing a stated value or costly. Check out homeowners insurance cost that can be less than your policy or from current local insurers.

 

As a whole, policy supposes 2 types. The first one takes the name ‘new-for-old’, what supposes that the company will provide a full cost of the stolen or damaged item or the replacement of it with the same item. Still, some things are irreplaceable. For example, the ring of your grandmother, which she has got from her grandma, the first gown of your child or the picture painted by your popular relative could hardly be replaced with other items or just the money. It’s also worth mentioning that things can be replaced on new ones if they were bought not longer than 5 years ago. Otherwise, you will get the price of an old object, but not the new one. The second type is called ‘wear and dear’ and it’s based on repair of destroyed or damaged objects, but with the reduction of its initial cost. It’s explained by the fact that items of that type are always of lower price. Pay attention to these moments in advance so that you could have a vision of an approximate value of your belongings.