QA National Warranties

An insurance intermediary company, QA National Warranties work closely with building contractors and trade associations from all over the British Isles, allowing them to offer an additional degree of consumer protection for their products and standards of workmanship.

In the form of policies of insurance in favour of the householder. The consumer protection offer is issued directly by QA, to you whenever you have work done by a participating contractor. They provide the type of protection that only policies of insurance can provide. These insurance schemes mean that householders have very strong rights to recourse in the unlikely event that things go wrong.

The Insurance Backed Guarantee

An guarantee is written out by your contractor, setting out his obligation to rectify any defects in your installation. This would be functionally useless, however, if a they ceased to trade and defects subsequently develop in your installation.

Contractors registered with QANW are in the position of being able provide "insurance backed" guarantees, meaning yjat their guarantees can be protected by an insurance policy. This means that in the event that the installing contractor ceases to trade, and unable to honour the terms of their written guarantee, the insurer and its agents will take the place of the contractor, and the policy of insurance take the place of their written guarantee.