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    Trimbridge House Trim Street Bath BA1 2DP
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  • Page Updated:
    04/07/2008
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    Building Control
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Building Control Service

Insurance and Warranty Schemes

LABC New Home Waranty

This is a high quality 10 year housing warranty available only to users of our service. It is available for self builds, multiple plot speculative residential housing and social housing. For further details contact LABC New Home Warranty  tel: 0845 054 0505 or visit www.labcnewhomewarranty.co.uk

LABC Latent Gold - The UK's largest latent defect scheme

This is a scheme to provide a 10-year building warranty against latent defects to commercial buildings. It is only available to users of Local Authority Building Control. As a cost saving measure for the customer if we carry out the site inspections on buildings up to £10 million build cost the insurer will not require any further checks to be made. The insurance has been arranged through one of Europe's largest insurance companies Allianz.

The latent defect insurance will cover any structural defect in the construction of the building caused by faulty construction, design, materials or incorrect specification of materials. It is primarily for new build schemes but cover can be arranged for major refurbishment schemes as well.

For more information and expert advice call Oval Insurance Broking tel: 0845 075 3530 or visit their web page at www.labclatentgold.co.uk

MasterBond - Domestic Warranty Scheme

This is another warranty scheme, introduced by the Federation of Master Builders in association with Local Authority Building Control. It provides a two year full and ten-year structural warranty against building defects for domestic extensions, renovations and improvements.

The warranty protects against loss of deposit, defects due to faulty workmanship or materials for the first two years and against structural defects for a further eight years. Cover extends to work carried out by sub-contractors appointed by your builder and even continues if your builder subsequently goes out of business. A free dispute resolution service is available to those who have taken out the insurance, should a dispute over quality arise between you and your builder.

As with Latent Gold the insurance is very competitively priced at 1.5% of the total cost of the job. So a job costing £5,000 would cost only £75 plus IPT to insure for ten years.

For an information pack about MasterBond, contact the free FMB helpline on 08000 965765 or e-mail masterbond@fmb.org.uk