• Ok, to clarify for those of you who need to know why he hasn't got insurance;

    He spent a lot of time researching (he even came to me for advice, I mean!?) for his 'light-industrial' workspace, as classified by the landlord and Council. It's part of a big warehouse space chopped into these units, strong doors, secure gates, good security.

    Fine, you can get insurance for this, no problem.

    However, when you have 3x people living in there, as other guys do in there, it's a bit different, and that's when the insurance goes through the roof. He can't classify it as a living space, because then he'd have to reclassify it as a habitation (and the landlord doesn't want that) and his tax-status would change completely in terms of production from home (and by production, I mean rows of industrial sewing machines, rails of stock, and a 5m long screen print table) for the worse - and 'Live-work' space status is designed to benefit those working from a desk.

    Either way, if the Insurance guy comes to inspect/the police file a report on a theft, I'm pretty sure they would invalidate the contract on these grounds, he'd loose the money he thought he'd beens pending wisely, and possibly cause problems for the landlord. To this end, I could even argue that the year he's spent living there, and not paying insurance, it's cheaper than buying a new computer.

    Sorry, this isn't a rant, he's not an idiot and he's been working really hard to make this work, so I thought I would clear this up.

    Oh, and no obvious markings or stickers, but the desktop was two monkeys playing in a bath at London Zoo.

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