Yorkshires Leading
Damp & Timber Specialists
Damp & Timber Specialists
Our Services
Our Services Cover
The Yorkshire Region including York, Harrogate and Scarborough
Guarantees
After completion of our work, you will be provided with our 10 year company guarantee..
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Insurance Guarantees - Much more than just a promise
Guarantees
After completion of our work, you will be provided with our 10
year company guarantee.
This provides you with the protection and
piece of mind that should a reoccurrence of your treated problem
arise, we resolve the issue free of charge (subject to terms
and conditions).
Our guarantees can be extended from 10 years to 20 years if required. (Extended guarantee periods may incur additional charges).
Guarantee Protection Insurance - Insurance Guarantees
As a professional Property Care Association Approved Company we are also able to offer our clients insured guarantees for all of our specialist work. This ensures that if our company were to regrettably cease trading your guarantee would continue to provide protection for the work undertaken by ourselves.
Our insured guarantees are provided through Guarantee Protection Insurance Ltd (GPI), A company formed as part of the Guarantee Protection Trust in 1983. The GPI is a completely independent company, by the PCA members to provide fair, transparent insured guarantees to protect property owners.
Our insured guarantees are provided for a small additional one-off fee and are specific to the property treated, so there is no need to reassign the guarantee for subsequent owners.
Insured guarantees can be provided for up to 20 years for specialist timber treatment, damp proofing, remedial wall ties and lateral restraint work (10 years for beaming and crack stitching).
Our quotations for insurance guarantee protection are inclusive
of Insurance Premium Tax (IPT).
Remember if you are not paying IPT
it's not insurance.
When comparing GPI members with other contractors you must ask yourself who vets those contractors, who determines their technical skills, are they Health and Safety trained and are they good enough to be acceptable to an insurance company?
The Guarantee Protection Insurance Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Want to know more about Insurance Guarantees?
Why choose Insurance Guarantees?
Insurance guarantees can only be provided by professional and vetted companies who have proven financial stability, an extensive level of technical and practical expertise, strictly adhere to industry codes of practice and are compliant to relevant Health and Safety legislation.
Insurance guarantees offer upto 20 years of protection for a small
one-off fee which is subject to (IPT) Insurance Premium Tax showing
that you are buying official insurance.
Beware, If you are not paying
IPT then it's not insurance. Except Channel Isles & Isle of Man.
Unlike other guarantees available Insurance guarantees are specific to the property and do not need to be reassigned to subsequent owners in order to remain valid.
What is an insured guarantee and how does that differ from an insurance-backed guarantee?
All insurance policies carry insurance premium tax (IPT), insurance-backed guarantees don't, showing that they are not genuine insurance.
Insurance-backed guarantees usually consist of annual calamity insurance with the policy in the name of the guarantee company. The guarantee you get for your property is simply issued by the guarantee company and there is no actual insurance on your property. Should the guarantee company fail to make its annual payment then the calamity insurance drops out.
'Insurance-backed' guarantee companies and manufacturers are regulated by nobody therefore there is no compensation scheme, consequently there is no protection for the customer. Many manufacturers and guarantee companies have gone out of business, leaving customers with worthless pieces of paper.
Other guarantee companies and manufacturers offer 30 year guarantees - your insurance is only for 20 years.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has only approved long-term guarantees up to 20 years. Therefore if you have been offered a thirty year guarantee this, is NOT official insurance and likely to be 'Insurance backed' by a manufacturer.
