Vermin become a bigger problem

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Home Insurance companies are urging customers to clean properties in a thorough manner, before going away.

Incidents that include vermin in properties are on the increase, mainly due to customers going away for weeks or months and leaving materials or even food, that attract the likes of rats and mice!

Vermin become a bigger problem

Home insurance customers who intend to leave a property unoccupied for a significant period of time should clean it thoroughly, it has been claimed.

According to the British Insurance Brokers’ Association, it is important to ensure no food is left around that might attract rats and mice.

Halifax home protection advice

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Home insurance is expensive, so do not make it any more expensive by making a claim, because you have not protected your house enough.

Halifax home protection advice

Halifax Home Insurance has issued advice to homeowners on how to stop the floods and snowstorms currently affecting the UK from damaging houses.

The advice includes putting sandbags around doors, airbricks and windows if the house is at risk of flooding and cutting low-hanging branches off trees if storms are approaching.

The hidden criminal to steal your home insurance

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This is an extremely important point, as I know that quite a few landlords that just do face value checks on their tenants, rather than in depth background checks, which would include these convictions.

The hidden criminal to steal your home insurance

Many people are living with worthless home insurance because they or someone - such as a tenant or lodger - living in their property has an unspent conviction, experts warn.
Householders risk losing thousands of pounds in rejected claims because they do not realise they need to declare even the most minor conviction of anyone in their household.

Cover your home from snow

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To ensure your property is covered, you’ll need to check that your property that your property is storm damage protected.
The UK has been flooded with claims on both home and car insurance over the last few days, although the worst is likely to have passed now.

Cover your home from snow

With parts of the UK blanketed by snow, motorists, holidaymakers and homeowners may need to fall back on their insurance cover…
The UK’s transport network ground to a halt today, thanks to the heaviest snowfall since 1991. An icy blast from Russia has left parts of the UK under six inches of snow. The outlook isn’t much better, with icy conditions likely to persist for the rest of this week. This is shaping up to be the coldest winter since the cruel weather of 1962/63. You can check the latest forecast at the Met Office website.

Tighten up security

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Simple precautions such as double locking, additional alarms and interior key locking systems could be the difference between a claim, and no claim.

For the sake of a 15 minute trip to the likes of B&Q, and maybe £20.00, any homeowner can start to equip their house more substantially.

Tighten up security

Residents in Avon and Somerset need to step up their home security measures to safeguard against burglars following a spate of incidents in October, police have warned.

Homeowners in the areas of Southville, Headley Park, Windmill Hill and Hartcliffe reported 79 burglaries last month and are now considered hotspots for the crime.