The Abbey National is warning homeowners who use oil for heating to make sure it is insured as thefts of the valuable resource are on the increase.
A spokesman for the Abbey National confirmed that police forces from around the country are seeing a rise in oil thefts, with domestic dwellings being specifically targeted. Homeowners are being asked to check their home insurance policy documents as around 10 percent of policies do not cover heating oil.
This issue has grown in importance as the cost of oil has risen so much. Abbey National figures show that the price of oil has pretty much doubled since January, making it an interesting potential opportunity for potential thieves.
Having taken a look at the attitudes of their home insurance customers Legal and General found that many prefer to throw broken items away rather than repair them.
Asked about electrical items like MP3 players and DVDs, 46 percent of those surveyed said they would throw it away if it stopped working. Slightly more worrying was the fact that 12 percent of people in the Legal and General study said they would throw an electrical item away if the fuse had blown.
On the one hand these results suggest we are throwing away perfectly serviceable items, though many small electrical items are very difficult to repair now, with manufacturers themselves recommending replacement rather than repair. Legal and General will usually replace electrical items that are claimed for on a home insurance policy since they follow the manufacturers guidelines.
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Having surveyed homeowners across the country Halifax Home Insurance has found that around 1.7 million households have an unfinished renovation project that they have been working around for 2 years or more.
Of the people surveyed by the Halifax almost half of them said they just did not have the time to finish the job off, while nearly 30 percent said they could not afford to complete the work. It appears that the most common room that remains unfinished is the bedroom, perhaps because it is not a room everyone sees.
A Halifax Home Insurance spokesman, looking at the information, felt that effective budgeting at the start of the project could help more people get jobs finished. Taking a realistic view of costs rather than being overly optimistic is perhaps the biggest change to make.
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