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Can we have photos of the extent of the damage?
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The only thing I can think of is “betterment”. Where your insurance company will do the cheapest thing they can….as doing more will cost them money and in their eyes might make it better than it was before the paint spill.
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a drive cleaning specialist
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If we end up claiming on our own insurance policy is there anything we should be aware of that will fuck us?
You will have to declare it when you buy insurance in future years (not sure for how long) and it's likely to put the cost of your insurance up because insurance companies like taking your money but they really don't like paying out. Ask me how I know...
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10pts to Howard.
After speaking to a drive cleaning specialist who was really knowledgeable and kindly spent loads of time talking and searching for helpful analogies to explain processes in layman's terms. It sounds like there is a 50:50 chance of getting the stains out without causing additional damage or staining.
Helpfully it turns out our neighbours are uninsured having forgotten to renew their policy. So now even the solution of replacing the paving stones no longer feels as accessible given asking a family to cough up £ks doesn't sit the same as asking an insurer.
They obviously want to give cheap cleaning a shot. They've also raised the point that we have let some weeds grow in the cracks and that the drive is weathered. I'm not sure anything rests on that opinion.
Writing lists of scenarios and analysing options wasn't how I wanted to spend the last few days of holiday.
If we end up claiming on our own insurance policy is there anything we should be aware of that will fuck us?