Halifax Home Insurance: Neighbours from hell can prove costly

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Halifax Home Insurance: Neighbours from hell can prove costly

Halifax Home Insurance has found that some 594,960 Brits have their properties damaged as a result of their neighbour's home improvement disasters every year.

Its research revealed that in 2007 alone, neighbours caused £173 million worth of damage as pierced pipes and demolished walls impacted on next door properties.

Although over-ambitious DIY-ers were mostly to blame for the costly mistakes, one in ten also pointed to professional workmen as the source of the problem.

The bank discovered that in 32 per cent of cases, the victim was forced to meet the cost of repairs themselves, while in a further 27 per cent of incidents the costs were shared between both parties.

David Rochester, head of underwriting at Halifax Home Insurance, suggested that "perhaps they weren't aware that they could have claimed for repairing the damage on their neighbour's insurance policy".

Legal & General recently found that Brits are losing their taste for DIY, with 41 per cent of UK residents now preferring to pay someone to do the work around their home for them.
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