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Contents insurance is a type of insurance policy that covers the cost of repairing or replacing your personal belongings in the event of damage or loss. This can include furniture, electronics, clothing, jewellery, and other valuable items.
Contents insurance typically covers a range of perils, such as fire, theft, flood, and accidental damage. If any of your possessions are damaged or stolen due to one of these perils, your contents insurance policy would provide funds to replace or repair the items.
It’s important to note that contents insurance only covers the personal possessions inside your home, not the physical structure of the building itself. For that, you would need a separate buildings insurance policy.
Contents insurance is not usually mandatory, but it can provide peace of mind and financial protection in case of unexpected events. The cost of contents insurance varies depending on factors such as the value of your possessions, the level of coverage you require, and your location.
There are several reasons why you may want to consider getting contents insurance:
It’s important to review your insurance needs and options carefully to determine if contents insurance is right for you.
This covers loss or damage to contents in your home, including household goods, furniture, personal documents, valuables, personal belongings, money, and credit cards.
Cover is provided as standard for:
For details of what is not covered, please refer to the Policy Wording.
Yes, mobile phones and bikes can be covered under the add on Personal Belongings cover as they’re taken outside your home.
Bicycles have their own specific cover section, and need to be specified if they’re worth more than £1,000.
Unfortunately, any damage to your fences caused specifically by storms or flood will not be covered, but under our buildings insurance they are covered for certain other circumstances such as vandalism or fire.
Yes, you need to tell us about any item that is valued at over £2,500.
You can cover any individual item up to a value of £10,000 or several items collectively valued up to £15,000 (for cover away from the home) or up to £20,000 (for cover within the home).
It covers you for up to £1,000 to make your home safe and secure in the event of a domestic emergency. This includes problems with:
If any of these emergencies occur which cause your home to become unsafe or cause a loss of these services, we will send an engineer to your home to complete a repair and prevent or limit any further damage. We will pay for call out charges, labour, and materials to get your home back to a safe state or restore the key services.
Home Emergency cover is not a maintenance policy and does not cover the cost of routine maintenance in your home, nor does it provide or cover the cost of boiler servicing or maintenance.
The standard excess amount payable on our Home policy is £100 on most Buildings & Contents claims. For claims relating to flood, it’s £250, for escape of water, it’s £350, and for claims for subsidence/heave/landslip it’s £1,000.
You can also choose to add a voluntary excess in addition to this. A higher total excess value makes your insurance cheaper, a lower value means you pay less towards a claim. The excesses for subsidence and flood claims are unaffected by your chosen voluntary excess and will remain at the stated level regardless.
