Direct Line Home Insurance
(Click the logo on the right for a home insurance quote from Direct Line.)
Direct Line offer great incentives for buying their home insurance online. In fact they offer up to 25% discount for buying online and currently offer free accidental damage cover on contents insurance.
Direct Line's home contents insurance policies offer the following key benefits:-
- Cover on a 'new for old' basis for household goods.
- Freezer contents up to £250
- Cover for contents of garages and sheds.
- Cash cover your home up to £300.
- Cover for items in the garden up to £500.
- Covers against; fire, smoke damage, lightning, theft, flood, escape of water or oil.
- Cover can also be included for accidental damage to; home computers, TVs, home entertainment systems, replacement keys and locks up to £250 (following theft of keys), and also possessions temporarily removed from the home to another e.g. while children are at college.
- Seasonal variations to your cover, this means an automatic 10% increase in cover for several weeks either side of Christmas and family weddings.
Their building insurance policies include the following key benefits to their cover:-
- Covers the structure of your home
- Covers the roofs, walls, fences, gates and outbuildings of your home
- Cover for permanent fixtures like kitchens, bathrooms and fitted wardrobes.
- Covers fire, lightning, storm or flood (this excludes fences and gates), theft, explosion, escape of water or oil, vandalism and subsidence.
- Their policy also covers burst pipes, accidental damage to windows or sanitaryware and the cost of alternative accommodation if necessary (following an insured event).
About Direct Line
Direct Line was established in 1985 initially promoting motor insurance. It was the first insurance company to offer its products over the phone directly to its customers cutting out the middleman. The company now has 5 million customers including those in Germany, Italy and Spain.
Direct Line went on to increase their portfolio of products and include; loans, pet insurance, mortgages and pensions.
Its famous red telephone on wheels became well known to the general public through its television advertising campaign.