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the "hoping against hope that the insurance policy pays out" thread
so we've had plumbers round who were going to replace the floorboards - we thought that the damp floorboards in our downstairs bathroom were a result of general damp / old house etc etc.
having taken up the floorboards they've discovered a crack in the toilet waste pipe that meant that raw sewage has been seeping into the foundations.
it's going to be about £5,000 if the insurance don't pay out. Plus mrs ccb and little isobel and i need to find somewhere to live for a few weeks.
please insurance, pay out, please insurance, pay out... etc etc.
i don't know why i'm posting it on here, maybe in the vain hope that one of you might work in insurance and have some comforting words for me!
Do you have buildings insurance then?
in theory it should pay out as its affected the foundations of the house.
yeah we have buildings insurance and contents
so i think we're covered. i think. but insurance companies give me the jitters.
Eep.
Have you called them yet? They might want to send their own approved plumbers to fix to save costs. The earlier you contact them the better anyway.
yeah contacted them straight away, they were pretty helpful
they're sending out a "sanitiser" from a company called Munters (lol) and then their own claims assessor sometime next week. I just think of all those families that were flooded a couple of years back and how they spent months living in caravans... hope they can sort out the problem reasonably quickly!