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Homeowners To Fork Out

Homeowners to fork out

Homeowners set to fork out 17 billion in winter repairs.

3 December 2005

Winter costs homeowners in the United Kingdom £16.7* billion every year, Direct Line Home Insurance has revealed.

Damage caused by each winter’s icy blasts costs the average home in the country £693.36 to repair each year.

It found the cost quickly totted up when you took into account the kind of chaos freezing temperatures and gale-force winter winds can bring.

Cracking pipes, flooded homes, cracks in the walls, slates blown from roofs and blocked drains and gutters all sent the winter repairs soaring. The biggest cost being damaged pipes, which cost £2,250 to repair.

A total of 51.4 per cent of men and 59.8 per cent of women had forked out up to £5,000 to repair damaged to their gardens, including fences blown over and smashed garden furniture.

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Nearly one person in five has experienced a flooded garden, house or garage and 91.4 per cent of men and 93.9 per cent of women had forked out at least £100 to replace damaged plants.

A third of people have had to repair their roofs over the winter, with more than one in ten of them spending up to £250 to sort it out.

More than half of 3,000 people questioned said they worried that their home was more prone to damage over the coldest season.

But a staggering 59 per cent of men and 63.6 per cent of women took no measures to protect their home.

The Welsh are far more concerned about winter damage in their homes than anywhere else. 46.9 per cent of people believed their house was “definitely” more at risk of damage.

In the rest of the country, the average of those who believed their home was more at risk was only 27 per cent.