LeeMac

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Anyone know anything about house insurance for a granite built property

All online quote sites say brick,stone, concrete but not granite.

bugeyeandy

Granite is stone isn't it?

LeeMac

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you would have thought, phone operator didn't know!

Trout

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I thought Granita was a cereal?!

bpm1588

we started off in an old listed terraced granite built house and if i remember right we were insured with egg at the time.we had trouble with it being listed but none with it being granite.

Simon 69

Gritstone, limestone, sandstone, granite: all 'stone' for the purposes of insurance.

LeeMac

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hmmm

they all have stone in except one

mr_D

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i will have a look in work for you in the morning mate.

i have never come across a granite built property before

Bubba po

Granite emits radiation higher than background levels, owing to the decay of radioactive minerals within it. In extreme cases it emits Radon gas.

You might need insurance against contracting cancer.

Trout

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There are loads in Scotland - especially Aberdeen. They need the radiation to keep warm

rossyboy

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Virtually everything built in Aberdeen before the 60's is made of Granite (so 10's of thousands of them). Our previous flat had a granite facade. There wont be any problems insuring it.

mr_D

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so let me get this right. the property is made out of granite.

or does it have a granite facia but built of brick

lol

LeeMac

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mr D -
Its made out of Granite (it doesn't look like a kitchen worktop!!)

mr_D

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thats ok then! lol

Fat Boy

All new builds in Granite areas ( Cornwall, Aberdeen, etc) now need to have underfloor extractor fans to remove the radon gas for exactly that reason

Trout

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Otherwise your kids ge that Ready Brek glow

Torquemada

@ this thread!!!
Oooh, there was I thinking that granite was some form of plastic....I mean, seriously, the answer was in your question!

p.s. found this thing called google.......http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...ryUK|countryGB

LeeMac

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erm, show me where it says insuring granite built houses and have you only just found google

if the answer was obvious then I wouldnt have asked, i did ask churchill first before posting on a thing called the phone

g7prs

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They have the sheep for that!

Torquemada

omfg

Trout

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The only fail here is that a high street name insurer did not understand that a house could be made of granite or that granite is a stone.

Torquemada

True!

Sorry LeeMac, giving up smoking for the millionth time and seem to be having a dig at all and sundry

scooby_doo!

Try the NFU i work for them they should do the quote for u. Its brick so see no problem.

Trout

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But it is not brick!

Bricks are ground up stuff we dig out of the ground, mixed with water then baked in a very hot oven for a long time.

Granite is a rock made out of high pressure and heat in the middle of the earth until lots of rock melts and then solidfies as it cools. We blast it out of quarries with dynamite and make it into brick shapes to build things, or flat strips to make kitchen surfaces.

It is very hard. Very, very hard.