Stairlift Repairs Are Expensive Make Sure You Are Insured

A lot of people fail to take out the optional stairlift maintenance contract offered to them once their 12 month 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 be very expensive often exceeding 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 system.

Annual stairlift maintenance contracts start at around (250-500) The lower price packages will only give you basic cover and chances are you will need to pay for the engineers call-out, parts and labour costs.

You really need to read this bit! Some companies 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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