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Flooded Kitchen/Living Room

Altar_Boy · 2025-03-03 15:32:45

I am submitting this message on behalf of my daughter who lives in a leasehold flat in a seven storey building. She recently returned home from work to discover that her kitchen/living room was flooded throughout to the depth of about 5cm. It transpired that the waste water pipe in the building had become blocked and as my…

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ThisIsWeird Posts: 7,935 Forumite

4 March at 3:35PM

Belenus said:
The debate about buildings versus contents insurance makes me think it must be useful to have a joint insurance policy with one company covering both.

She can't. It's a Leasehold property, with communal buildings insurance, arranged by the FHer.
Individual LHers need to arrange their own contents policy, to which they should really add LP.

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