Maintaining the Hard Landscaping in your Garden
Spring is the ideal time for maintaining the hard landscaping in your garden.
Spring is the ideal time for maintaining the hard landscaping in your garden.
What Pricing practices have been reviewed? What are the new rules? What do I need to look out for? These questions are answered in this article.
As peak season ends, it is a good time to think about adding value to your holiday home, which will make your home stand out in a competitive market. A beautiful, well presented holiday home is, of course, a great start.
Winter does not have to be a barren season for bookings – increasing holiday home winter bookings can be entirely possible. This is especially true since the coronavirus pandemic as many people are discovering the benefits of holidays closer to home. We have compiled here a few pointers to help you keep the guests arriving throughout the winter season.
What makes a successful holiday home website? As the peak season draws to a close and thoughts turn to autumn, Christmas and New Year bookings, this is an excellent time to make sure your holiday home website is up to date and giving you the best value for money.
Cycling as a form of transport and as a recreational past-time has, arguably, never been more popular, so ways of attracting cyclists to your holiday home can be the key to unlock a large and growing market.
Ideas for sustainable holiday homes and holidays are at the front of many holiday makers’ minds in these times of growing environmental concern about the future of the planet.
Carbon monoxide is invisible and odourless, deprives the body of oxygen and can cause serious injury or death. This guide is designed to help you to understand the law and protect you and your family, guests or tenants from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Attracting off-peak bookings to your holiday home can prove to be a challenge. Here we have compiled a few tips that can help you keep the bookings coming in when the days shorten and the sun goes in.
Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) near your holiday home can present a real problem. This plant is highly invasive and can grow at a rate of 10 centimetres per day. It can quickly take advantage of weaknesses in building materials, paths and roads to become a serious threat to the integrity of your holiday home.
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Please enter the rebuild cost of your property. This must include the cost of debris removal, architects, surveyors, consultants, legal fees, taxation and the additional cost of complying with any government or local authority requirements. (The is not the figure that is provided by some insurers which is £500,000 or £1million, these are blanket sums insureds and is the maximum level that insurer will pay in the event of a total loss, and it also is not the market value of your property).
ABI rebuilding cost calculator
If your UK holiday home is of standard construction the Association of British Insurers (ABI) offers a free (registration required) rebuild cost calculator to assist you assess the rebuilding cost of your property. To use the calculator and obtain an approximate rebuild cost, you’ll need to measure the external floor area of both downstairs and upstairs of your property.
Click here to go to the ABI rebuilding Cost Calculator https://abi.bcis.co.uk/
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Please be advised that the ABI rebuilding Cost Calculator will only provide an indicative figure for rebuild costs as there are a number of restrictions to the calculator such as, properties with unusual features, thatched buildings, listed buildings or houses made of non-standard materials. Declaring the correct sums to insure your property for, will remain the responsibility of the policyholder at all times.
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