Living in a park home can be a peaceful and fulfilling experience. These compact and comfortable spaces offer a unique sense of community and freedom. However, park home residents must remain vigilant when it comes to fire safety. Fire incidents can be devastating, and prevention is always better than cure. In this blog post, we…
Your park home is your sanctuary, a place of comfort and relaxation. To keep it that way, it’s essential to be proactive in maintaining it. One of the most common and potentially damaging issues you may encounter is water leaks. Water leaks can cause structural damage and mould growth and create a host of other…
Thermal insulation or cladding is a type of material that is used to insulate all types of properties, but it has become particularly popular with park homes in recent years. This is due in part due to the availability of grants but also because it really can reduce your heating bills which go up and…
Sound Advice We are delighted to publish this excellent and informative article written by Park Home legal expert Ibraheem Dulmeer, it will be of particular interest to purchasers of new homes. Here at Paul Baker Insurance Services (PBIS), we have spoken to several residents in recent months who have been very unhappy with their new…
It can be difficult to arrange insurance on park homes up for sale, particularly if they are unoccupied or if the previous insurance has lapsed, possibly due to the death of the previous owner. Paul Baker Insurance Services receive many requests to insure such risks, often referred to us by a competitor, and we will…
All residents living in licensed residential parks are required to pay a monthly pitch fee, which will vary considerably from park to park and even within a park, there appears to be no agreed basis for calculating the pitch fee, but there are strict rules for increasing it. The pitch fee can only be increased…
British Standard 3632 is the standard to which residential park homes are built; homes built to this standard are considered to be suitable to be used as a permanent residence and occupied all year round. Some holiday lodges are also built to this superior specification meaning that they too can be used as a main…
We are delighted to include an article about park home base issues written by leading park home barrister Ibraheem Dulmeer. As bases are owned by and the responsibility of the site owner, they are not covered by your park home insurance policy; any problems with the base should always be referred to the site owner…
Whilst most park homes are heated by LPG, historically, many are heated by oil, usually because the park is not served by mains gas. Oil heating is, of course, perfectly acceptable, and park home insurance policies should cover loss or damage caused by the escape of oil; they should also cover the cost of any…
We always recommend having a survey (and seeking out any hidden damage) when purchasing a park home; you would not contemplate buying bricks and mortar property without one; why should a park home be any different? One of the biggest causes of park home insurance claims is damage caused by the escape of water. Leaks…
