Home insurance. Who do you use?

[pickledbeetle]

Our home insurance provider has been bought out. The annual buildings cover has gone up 50%. Would ayone recommend their company?
Contents will also be due soon, may combine the 2

Prudential - were the cheapest for our inner-city area. But it all depends....

we're Prudential too but only contents.

Was with More Than and they put their premiums up by about 30%, so moved to Tescos and have already used their Legal Advice line. Very impressed so far. Very good price and very efficient at sending out the policy documentation etc.

BR

We got a good price with Esure.

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I have combined Buildings and Contents Insurance from Direct Line. Never had a problem with them.

I am in the process of making my 1st claim and they have been fantastic. A radiator had been leaking for ages in my living room, I hadn't noticed as it was behind my heavy living room curtains. By the time we noticed the carpet had started to go mouldy! I phoned their claims line and explained. The guy said " We can't fix the radiator as it's wear & tear, but we can fix the carpet". It was left at that and he said someone would contact me in the next few days.

The next day a Carpet store called and said they were to come around and measure our living room for a brand new carpet!!!! And that was that.

It was horrible old carpet that was there when we moved in, now we're getting a brand new one fitted for £50 (excess). So I thoroughly recommend them!

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Thanks for your comments
Galaxy - hear what you are saying about variations just wanted to have a few names to start rather than work my way thru Yellow Pages

Hadn't thought about Tescos

Toothache - Direct Line do our car so have called them. Glad to hear you're pleased. Hope you like the new carpet! They want to come and do a security review for the contents! Wonder what that entails!!

Esure are fab.We had only been with them a few months when our washing machine flooded the whole ground floor.They got someone out to dry us out the same day & the carpets were all cleaned within the week.I have never had to claim on household insurance before & misunderstood what the carpet guy said & thought we would have to pay another excess to replace the kitchen lino & decide to just live with it.

Esure rang me today to say that they hadn't recieved a quote to replace the kitchen floor & I explained why.They told me that there was no extra excess & to get a quote & they would sort out everything else.They were really nice & helpful & now I get a new kitchen floor.Great!