Do renewable installers need to provide Insurance Backed Guarantees?

If you’re MCS certified, yes — you need cover on every domestic job you certify, whoever pays for it. If you’re Flexi-Orb certified, same answer. If you hold no certification at all, no — but you can’t do grant work, and your customer can’t get paid for the electricity they export.

How Insurance Backed Guarantees can help you win contracts

Quick answer: Bigger jobs go to builders who look like a safe pair of hands. An Insurance Backed Guarantee is one of the clearest ways to prove it: it backs your written workmanship guarantee so the client is protected even if your company stops trading. Paired with a recognised accreditation, it gets a small firm […]

Insurance Backed Guarantee vs structural warranty: what you need to know

An Insurance Backed Guarantee backs your own company written ceases trading as per the policy wordings. A structural warranty covers the building’s structure — foundations, walls, roof structure — for around 10 to 12 years, whether you’re still trading or not. One protects your promise. The other protects the building. On a bigger extension, a homeowner may want both. Subject to the terms and conditions of the policy.