On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:06:40 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:
On 25/11/10 10:01, pete wrote:

But can you still get house insurance ?



It's never been a question I've been asked nor seen in the policy.

I'm had lots of declinations to quote based on having 40% flat roof
(that includes bays and dormer) though.

The reason I asked was that presumably the "fault" from the NG engineer's
visit will have been logged somewhere. So in the event of kaboom
someone, who's job it is to find reasons not to pay insurance claims,
will find out about the leaky valve and ask to see evidence that it
had been fixed. In my cynical mind, saying you did it yourself and
therefore admitting that it was not done by a certified/registered
service person would be handing them an excuse on a plate.

I also have a feeling that BG are quite keen to investigate "gas
explosions" in order to transfer blame from their product onto
other causes. So even if the insurance people didn't question a
claim, you might still get a polite enquiry from BG, when the
reports of a "gas explosion destroys house" gets to their PR
department.

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