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Stairlift Repairs Are Expensive Make Sure You Are Insured |
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Written by Stephen Wright
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Monday, 26 July 2010 08:11 |
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Should you take out the optional service maintenance contract most stairlift companies offer once your guarantee warranty has elapsed. If you are not covered by a Maintenance / Repair Cover Plan repair bills can be both inconvenient and costly.
by StephenWright
Should you take out the optional service maintenance contract most stairlift companies offer once your guarantee warranty has elapsed. If you are not covered by a Maintenance / Repair Cover Plan repair bills can be both inconvenient and costly.
Replacing broken or worn parts on your stairlift can often exceed the cost of a Service Maintenance Contract and no guarantee a company will offer to send a call-out engineer to someone who is not on their books so to speak.
Annual stairlift maintenance contracts start at around (300-600) The lower price insurance packages will only give you very limited cover and without doubt you will need to pay for the extras! Call-out, Parts and Labour costs.
Now be very careful about call out charges! Some companies will charge you for traveling time. If you do not have a contract with the company you engage the services of, make sure you ask if they charge for the engineers traveling time.
If there not a local company and the engineer spends two hours travelling time to reach you? That's a hefty bill! Average call-out price (80 per hour x 2 =160) and he hasn't even arrived yet. That's only half of it good possibility you will get stung for the two hour return trip as well 80 x 4 =320 smackers.
Most companies offer a range of maintenance service contracts rated by stars or colours. Obviously the more stars or metallic of colour the higher the price but more benefits and cover you receive. All contracts should include an annual service of your stairlift.
I personally would recommend that you take some type of protection cover out on your stairlift unless you have very deep pockets. In fact it would be wise to use the company you originally purchased the product from. Other companies might not have the service parts required to complete the service or repair.
In my next article I will explain what you actually get for your money when an engineer arrives to carry out an annual service of your stairlift. Keep your eyes peeled out for that one some good info to be had.
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