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Home insurance

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lisbapalea · 31/10/2011 14:05

Hello - not sure if this should be in this section or in property but I may post in both places!

Am trying to sort out home insurance (buildings & contents) on the house we're moving into on Friday. It's a 300yr old house which is evidently bumping up our costs a lot from our current place which was built around 1900.

I'm therefore trying to keep costs down, and wondered if it's silly to not go for emergency cover when applying for home insurance.

Any thoughts?

I have been on comparison websites and have now got a few cheapish quotes (not cheap at all but vaguely more affordable than some others!) but they don't include emergency cover. I also don't want to go for any of the companies I've never heard of - e.g. "insure wiser" (logo of an owl - anyone know them?!) and am preferring to go with a name I at least know!

Am currently veering towards Endsleigh and will go for that if the consensus is that emergency cover isn't an essesntial.

Would love to get feedback from people who know more about this than me!

Thanks in advance,
Lisa

OP posts:
Alad · 31/10/2011 22:02

Try Hiscox or John Lewis.

CogitoErgoSometimes · 01/11/2011 07:20

I like Direct Line. They don't advertise on comparison sites but their prices are OK. I have emergency cover because, the few times I've had to claim on the insurance, it always seeems to be an emergency :) Leaking pipe on the landing causing the hall ceiling to cave in being particularly memorable!

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