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Insuring Your Home During Remodeling

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Insuring Your Home During Remodeling

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  1. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  2. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • If you're adding an extra room or making some other improvement to your home, you will probably need to update your homeowners insurance policy to cover the addition or improvement. You should also protect yourself from liability by ensuring that the workers performing the renovations have proper insurance coverage. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  3. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • Notify your insurance agent about your remodeling plans • Contact your insurance agent before construction begins in order to increase your coverage to reflect the new changes in your home. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  4. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • He or she can help you determine how much additional property coverage you'll need and can also help you obtain extended liability or other insurance. Keep your agent informed about the progress of the remodeling in case your plans change and a different level of coverage is needed. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  5. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • Increase the amount of your coverage • Although some homeowners policies are comprehensive enough to cover most home additions and improvements, other policies make it necessary for you to increase your coverage amount. Remember that your home's value will increase with the improvements, so you'll soon have more to protect. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  6. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • Don't make the mistake of waiting until the remodeling is completed to increase the amount of your homeowners insurance coverage. You should do this before the work starts. If you don't, and the improvement is damaged or destroyed before it's completed, you'll probably have to pay for the loss out of your own pocket--turning your remodeling plan into a very expensive job. Of course, when you purchase more insurance, your premiums will increase. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  7. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • What your homeowners insurance should cover • If you're adding a new room or other structure to your house, you would be wise to specifically name the new addition as a covered item on your homeowners policy. Otherwise, if the new structure is damaged, the insurance company might not cover your loss. However, a new roof or modern stormproof windows do not necessarily need to be named as covered items in your policy. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  8. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • In most cases, these improvements will increase the overall value of your house, and you should simply increase your total coverage amount to reflect your home's greater value. Talk to your agent for details. Keep in mind that you may also need to buy increased coverage for any new furniture or other personal property you purchase. • While your remodeling is being done, you also need to consider protection for the building supplies that your contractor uses to complete the job. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  9. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • If supplies such as carpeting, tiles, or lumber are stolen, your homeowners insurance or the contractor's business insurance should cover the theft. The time to find out, though, is before a supplier starts delivering these items to your house. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  10. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • Make sure your contractor is properly insured • When you hire a contractor to work on your house, you run the risk of a lawsuit if the contractor or an employee gets injured on the job. You need to protect yourself from this potential liability by verifying that the contractor carries adequate workers' compensation coverage. Ask to see proof; have the contractor's insurance agent mail or fax you a copy directly. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  11. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • The contractor should be able to present an active certificate of coverage. Make sure the certificate's active dates reflect the current period. You would be wise to call your contractor's insurance carrier for confirmation. • Your contractor should also have a certificate for contractor's liability coverage. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  12. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • This type of insurance covers any damage the contractor does to your property unrelated to the renovation. In addition, find out if the contractor's policy covers uninstalled finished products, such as chandeliers or ceiling fans. If not, consider adding such coverage to your homeowners policy. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  13. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • Don't forget subcontractors • If you are having major remodeling done to your house, such as the addition of a new room, your general contractor may delegate some of the work to subcontractors. For instance, he or she may bring in an electrician, plumber, painter, or other specialist to handle a particular area of the job. In this case, examine each subcontractor's certificate of coverage for workers' compensation insurance yourself. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  14. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • Do this even though the general contractor will generally take responsibility for confirming such coverage. You may want to call the insurance carriers for verification. If the amount of coverage is inadequate, contact your agent about extending the limits of the liability portion of your homeowners policy. This is also the case if you plan to act as the general contractor yourself. Subcontractors are separate workers and need to be covered separately. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  15. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • What if your family or friends help with the work? • Suppose you're doing most of the renovation yourself, with a little help from a relative or close friend; no one is being paid. You still need to make sure your helper is adequately protected in the event of injury. Generally, the liability coverage of your homeowners insurance will pay the medical bills, just as it would for any other guest at your home. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  16. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • Under some circumstances, though, your helper's health insurance might pick up a portion of the medical costs before your homeowners policy kicks in. If you have any questions about coverage, ask your insurance agent. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

  17. Insuring Your Home During Remodeling • Finally, it is important to obtain proper inspections to make sure that the addition/renovations meet local code. Without this, a loss might not be covered. For example, if an electrical fire started in the uninspected room that you added on, you may have a problem. www.BeamaLife.com | 1-866-972-3262

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