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Home owners urged to make 'winter weather health check'
23/11/10
Edited by Bob Witham.Residential property owners have been urged to ensure they know how to cope with a leak from a burst or cracked pipe.
According to Ageas and the British Insurance Brokers' Association, over half (52 per cent) of householders admit they do not know how to turn off their water supply in an emergency.
The organisations said this can be vitally important, as around 34 per cent of home insurance claims made after last winter related to damage from escaping water.
They added that around two million homes in all are thought to have been affected by the cold weather.
As part of the bodies' winter weather health check campaign, they are providing insurance brokers with factsheets on coping with emergency leaks, as well as locator stickers that home owners can fill in and place under the kitchen sink so everyone in the family can find the stopcock before they call a plumber.
In related news, the Met Office has issued warnings of heavy snowfall in parts of the north and east of the UK from Thursday (25th November) onwards.
