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What Buildings and Contents insurance covers
Outbuildings (garage,shed etc.)
Burst water pipes/leaking radiator/water damage
Personal Belongings cover and Contents Plus
How much you should insure your home/contents for?
Checking what amount your contents are covered for
Types of cover
The two main types of cover we provide are Buildings and Contents. Additional cover can be taken alongside, including Accidental Damage, Personal Belongings, Home Emergency and Legal Expenses.
What Buildings and Contents insurance covers
Buildings Insurance covers your private dwelling, its garages and outbuildings, fixtures and fittings, patios, terraces, footpaths, swimming pools, tennis courts, drives, walls, fences, hedges and gates.
Contents Insurance covers household goods, valuables and personal belongings owned by you or your family, or for which you/they are legally responsible.
New for old
We offer a new for old policy, which means that if you make a successful contents claim, we will replace the relevant items with brand new ones of equivalent value.
Number of bedrooms
We offer Buildings and Contents cover for homes with up to eight bedrooms.
Outbuildings (gara ge, shed etc.)
Buildings Insurance covers you for damage to your home and other outbuildings in the boundary of your home, e.g., a garage, shed or greenhouse. Contents Insurance provides cover for the items stored in outbuildings.
Flood damage
Damage by flood is provided for with both Buildings and Contents cover.
Burst water pipes/leaking radiator/water damage
This would be covered under both the Buildings and Contents sections of your home insurance. Home Emergency cover provides assistance to rectify the problem so that no further damage happens.
Insurance for students
Contents Insurance can be extended to cover student belongings whilst you or a member of your family are living in university halls of residence or rented student accommodation. This is provided as an optional extra which can be selected towards the end of the quote process.
Bikes
All pedal cycles need to be added to your policy as a 'specified item'. This will ensure they are covered inside and outside your home.
Rented properties
Contents Insurance is available if you are renting. If you are letting out a property, our Landlord Insurance can provide Buildings and Contents cover.
Second homes
You can insure a second home, subject to underwriting requirements.
Holiday homes abroad
Currently, you need a specialist policy to insure holiday homes abroad.
Home Emergency Cover
Home Emergency Cover provides assistance for a sudden event that was not expected by any of your family and which needs immediate action to make the home safe and secure, avoid damage or further damage to your home, make your home fit to live in and if necessary restore electricity, gas or water services to your home if they have totally failed.
Personal Belongings cover
Personal Belongings cover provides cover for personal belongings both inside and outside the home.
Unlimited buildings cover
Because rebuild values can go up and down depending on what the housing market is doing at the time, we provide unlimited buildings insurance so you are always covered for the full cost of rebuilding your house.
Business use
This is when your home is used for anything other than private residential purposes.
Converted house/flat
A converted building is a residential property for which the original purpose was not residential.
Valuables
Valuables are articles of gold, silver and other precious metal, jewellery, furs, pictures, works of art, collections of coins, medals or stamps, watches, camera equipment, binoculars, telescopes, microscopes and camcorders.
How much you should insure your home/contents for?
Normally your home should be insured for a minimum of the property's rebuilding cost and your contents should be insured for their total combined value. However, Halifax Home Insurance offers unlimited cover for Buildings.
Policy excesses
An excess is the first part of a claim which the policyholder must pay. You can choose the amount of excess you want to pay (nil, £50, £75, £100, £125, £150, £175, £200, £250, £300, £400, £500, £750 or £1,000).
Specific/high value items
Certain Items within Contents cover need to be specified if they are of high risk and worth more than £1,500. Please see the policy booklet for a list of high risk items.
Checking what amount your contents are covered for
Our Contents insurance covers the full cost of repairing or replacing your contents on a new for old basis, subject to single article and High Risk Item limits.
Contents limits
• Food in the freezer up to £500
• High Risk items single item limit of £1,500
• Unspecified High Risk item aggregate limit of up to £20,000
• Visitors’ personal belongings in your home up to £250 per visitor
• Cover automatically covered for Business Equipment up to £5,000
• Contents in the open up to £500 (garden items and plants)