A first choice for Deposit & Guarantee protection for many thousands of contractors in the UK

OUR SERVICES

HIP has been selling Insurance Backed Guarantees and Deposit Protection to thousands of Home Improvement Contractors since 2009. Many Home Improvement products/service are covered by the comprehensive insurance.

HIP protects contractors consumers with policies that are user-friendly, easy to understand and with no hidden small print. Comprehensive cover provides peace of mind to consumers for their deposit payment and against their written guarantee issued by the contractor (up to 10 years).

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What is an insurance
backed guarantee

An Insurance Backed Guarantee (IBG), also known as Workmanship Warranty Insurance, is an essential protection for customers, in the event of the contracting company ceases to trade. It can cover almost any kind of building work, including:

Air Source Heat Pumps • Bathrooms • Bedrooms • Biomass Boilers • Boilers • Central Heating Management Systems • Conservatories • Conservatories Roof Replacement • Double Glazed Doors • Double Glazed Windows • Extensions • EVCP • Fascias • Garage Conversions • Garage Doors • Garden Rooms • Ground Source Heat Pumps • Kitchens • Loft Conversions • Loft Insulation • Orangeries • PV Management Systems • PV Solar • Roofing • Roofline • Soffits • Thermal Solar

Central heating systems e.g Radiators and Underfloor heating are excluded from any installation type named above including Air Source Heat Pumps, Boiler etc.

What is an insurance
backed guarantee

An Insurance Backed Guarantee (IBG), also known as Workmanship Warranty Insurance, is an essential protection for customers, in the event of the contracting company ceases to trade. It can cover almost any kind of building work, including:

Air Source Heat Pumps • Bathrooms • Bedrooms • Biomass Boilers • Boilers • Central Heating Management Systems • Conservatories • Conservatories Roof Replacement • Double Glazed Doors • Double Glazed Windows • Extensions • EVCP • Fascias • Garage Conversions • Garage Doors • Garden Rooms • Ground Source Heat Pumps • Kitchens • Loft Conversions • Loft Insulation • Orangeries • PV Management Systems • PV Solar • Roofing • Roofline • Soffits • Thermal Solar

Central heating systems e.g Radiators and Underfloor heating are excluded from any installation type named above including Air Source Heat Pumps, Boiler etc.

DEPOSIT PROTECTION

HIP can protect your deposit up to 25% of the cost of the contracted
home improvement work
(subject to the T&C’s)

Latest News

HIP launches a new website taking the insurance services to new levels….

HIP have been working on launching a new website to make it more user friendly for both Consumers and Contractors. This comes in line with the ever increasing consumer duty focus, in the insurance sector. HIP is also focused on making services more streamlined. The new website has more information than before with a ‘new’

New online portal coming soon….

With more and more contractors wishing to register their consumers online for insurance, HIP has been working to produce a ‘simple’ user friendly registration portal. Each member will have access to the portal with a their very own unique login. Once logged in the member will be able add consumers line by line and will