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- Pros and cons of being a contractor
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- What Bank Rate Cut Means for SMEs and Tradespeople
- What does a Tiler do?
- What insurance do I need as tradesman?
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Insurance products we provide for Tradesmen
- Commercial Property Insurance Cover
- Commercial Construction Insurance Quotes
- Construction insurance FAQs
- What construction insurance do I need if I am self-employed?
- What insurance does a UK contractor need?
- What insurance is compulsory in the UK?
- Contract Works Insurance
- Contract Works FAQs
- What does Contract Works cover?
- Employers' Liability insurance
- Employer's liability insurance FAQs
- Can I get temporary liability insurance?
- Employers' liability insurance for the self-employed
- Public Liability vs Employers' Liability Insurance
- Employers' liability when working from home
- How much does employers’ liability insurance cost per employee?
- How much employers' liability do I need?
- How much is UK employers' liability insurance?
- Employers' liability vs professional indemnity
- Employers' liability vs workers' compensation
- Is it a legal requirement to have employers' liability insurance?
- Employers' liability insurance purpose
- Fleet & Mini-Fleet Insurance
- Fleet Insurance FAQs
- Insuring a van that is not part of a fleet
- Do you insure tools used by fleets?
- How do I arrange a courtesy vehicle?
- How many vehicles count as a fleet?
- How much does fleet insurance cost?
- Is fleet insurance required by law?
- Commercial vehicles covered by fleet insurance policy
- Hired In Plant cover
- Hired In Plant FAQs
- What does Hired In Plant cover?
- Jury Service cover
- Jury Service FAQs
- What does Jury Service cover?
- Self-Employed Legal Defence Costs Insurance
- Owned Plant cover
- Owned Plant FAQs
- What does Owned Plant cover?
- Construction Performance Bonds Insurance
- Construction Professional Indemnity Insurance Quotes
- Insurance Professional Indemnity FAQs
- Does an Excess apply to Professional Indemnity insurance?
- Does excess apply to costs and expenses when no claim is paid?
- Is Professional Indemnity insurance required by law?
- Professional Indemnity for sole traders
- What is Professional Indemnity insurance?
- What level of Professional Indemnity insurance should I buy?
- Public Liability Insurance
- Public Liability Cover for Contractors
- Public Liability FAQs
- Can I get public liability insurance for one month?
- Can you get public liability insurance for one day?
- Do I need public liability insurance for a private party?
- Public liability insurance for events - Trade Direct Insurance
- Displaying a public liability insurance certificate
- Professional indemnity insurance
- How many employees or trainees can I insure?
- How to claim against public liability insurance
- Business insurance vs public liability
- Is public liability insurance tax deductible?
- What is the difference between public liability and general liability?
- Self-employed public liability insurance
- What happens if you have no public liability insurance?
- What is a bona-fide sub-contractor (BFSC)?
- What is a labour only sub-contractor (LOSC)?
- Public Liability for Sole Traders
- Self Build Project insurance
- Trade Direct Insurance SelfBuild insurance FAQs
- Am I required to have self-build insurance?
- Do you need site insurance for a self-build?
- How long does a SelfBuild insurance policy last?
- How many sites can I insure?
- I’ve started my build. Can I get self-build insurance from you?
- I don’t know when building will start. Can I still buy insurance?
- What does SelfBuild insurance cover?
- What is self-build insurance?
- The difference between ‘land’ and ‘self-build plot’
- When might self-build insurance be needed?
- Who is SelfBuild insurance designed to cover?
- Who underwrites SelfBuild policies?
- Small Business Liability insurance
- Small Business insurance FAQs
- What is covered by commercial buildings insurance?
- Stock in Transit cover
- Stock in Transit FAQs
- What does Stock In Transit cover?
- Tools Insurance
- Trade Direct Insurance Tools insurance FAQs
- Are there limits to when my tools are covered?
- Are tools kept in my garage or shed insured by my home insurance?
- How much is tools insurance?
- How much Personal Tools cover can I have?
- I have Public Liability insurance. Do I need a separate tools policy?
- Is tools insurance worth it?
- What does Personal Tools cover provide?
- What is an Excess?
- What’s the difference between Plant and Tools?
- Tradesman Insurance
- Tradesman FAQs
- Can I have an additional or secondary trade?
- What does Personal Accident cover?
- What is meant by a “Main Trade”?
- Business Van Insurance
- Van Insurance FAQs
- Courtesy vehicle vs replacement vehicle - Trade Direct Insurance
- Does van insurance cover tools?
- Is van insurance required by law?
Trades we insure at Trade Direct Insurance
- Aerial, Satellite, and Cable Installers Public Liability Insurance
- Aerial & Satellite Dish Installer insurance FAQs
- Is aerial and dish installer cover needed?
- Aerial & satellite dish installer insurance
- Aerial erectors and liability insurance
- HVAC Engineers Public Liability insurance
- Air Conditioning insurance FAQs
- What is refrigeration engineer insurance?
- Why refrigeration engineer insurance?
- Bathroom Fitters Public Liability insurance
- Bricklayers Public Liability insurance quote
- Bricklayers insurance FAQs
- Do bricklayers need insurance?
- Do bricklayers need public liability insurance?
- How much does bricklayer insurance cost?
- How to start a bricklaying business
- What does bricklayers' insurance typically cover?
- What insurance do you need as a bricklayer?
- What insurance does a self-employed bricklayer need?
- When should I get bricklayers' insurance?
- Why bricklayer-specific insurance?
- Builders Public Liability insurance
- Builders insurance FAQs
- Do builders need product liability insurance?
- Do I need builders risk insurance?
- Do I need buildings insurance on a new build property?
- How long does builders’ insurance last?
- How much does builders’ insurance cost?
- Is builders’ insurance the same as home insurance?
- What insurance does a self-employed builder need?
- What is builders' insurance?
- What is builders insurance?
- Car Valeting Insurance
- Carpenters & Joiners Public Liability insurance cover
- Carpenters & Joiners insurance FAQs
- Public liability insurance for carpenters
- How much is insurance for a carpenter?
- What are the risks of being a carpenter?
- What insurance do I need to be a carpenter?
- What insurance does a carpenter need?
- What is carpenters' insurance?
- Carpenters and joiners insurance
- Carpentry and joinery business insurance
- Why specific carpenter insurance?
- Carpet Cleaners Insurance Quotes
- Cleaners Public Liability insurance
- Cleaning insurance FAQs
- Why cleaning businesses need insurance
- Conservatory Fitters Public Liability Insurance Cover
- Drylining Contractors Public Liability insurance
- Electrician insurance
- Electricians insurance FAQs
- How much does electricians’ insurance cost?
- How to start a business as an electrician
- What insurance does an electrician need?
- Excavators Insurance Quotes
- Excavators insurance FAQs
- How much is excavator insurance?
- What does excavator insurance cover?
- Fencing Contractors insurance
- Flooring Contractors Public Liability Insurance
- Glaziers Public Liability insurance quote
- Glazing insurance FAQs
- Double-glazing installer insurance
- What type of insurance do glaziers need?
- Handyman Insurance
- Heating and Gas Engineers Public Liability insurance
- Heating Engineers insurance FAQs
- Do heating engineers need public liability insurance?
- Do you need insurance to be Gas Safe?
- How much does gas engineer insurance cost?
- Is heating and gas engineer insurance a legal requirement?
- What are the cover options for heating engineers?
- What are the different types of insurance for gas engineers?
- What cover is included in gas engineer insurance?
- What insurance do gas engineers need?
- What insurance do I need as a heating engineer?
- What is heating engineers' insurance?
- Liability insurance for air con engineers
- Why do you need specific gas engineer insurance?
- Why does a gas engineer need public liability insurance?
- Interior Fittings Public Liability Insurance
- Interior fittings FAQs
- Liability insurance for French polishers
- Fitted furniture installer employers liability
- How much is upholsterer insurance?
- What is interior designer insurance?
- Liability insurance for blind installers
- Kitchen Fitters Public Liability insurance
- Landscape and Drainage Insurance
- Landscaping & Drainage insurance FAQs
- Gardeners public liability insurance cost
- What insurance does a gardener need?
- Locksmith Public Liability insurance
- Loft Conversion Contractors Insurance
- Masonry Public Liability Insurance
- Masonry insurance FAQs
- Do I need insurance as a stonemason?
- What is monumental masonry insurance?
- Outbuilding Erection Public Liability Insurance
- Outbuilding Erection insurance FAQs
- Shed and carport installer liability cover
- Shed and carport installer liability cover
- Shed, garage and carport erector cover
- Painters and Decorators Public Liability insurance
- Painters & Decorators insurance FAQs
- Do decorators need public liability insurance?
- Is public liability required for house painters?
- What insurance do you need as a painter and decorator?
- Paving Contractors Public Liability insurance
- Pest, Vermin, and Hygiene Installers Public Liability Insurance
- Pest, Vermin, and Hygiene Installers insurance FAQs
- Public liability for pest and vermin control?
- Additional pest and vermin control cover
- What is pest & vermin control insurance?
- Why pest and vermin control insurance?
- Plasterers Public Liability insurance
- Plumbers Public Liability insurance
- Plumbers Insurance FAQs
- How much does plumbers’ insurance cost?
- Is a plumber liable for water damage in the UK?
- What insurance should a plumber have?
- Property Developer Insurance
- Property Maintenance Services insurance
- Property Maintenance insurance FAQs
- Public liability for property maintenance
- Property maintenance insurance cost
- What is property maintenance insurance?
- Road Surfacing Public Liability Insurance
- Roofers & Scaffolding Public Liability Insurance
- Roofing & Scaffolding insurance FAQs
- How much does roofer insurance cost?
- What insurance do I need for scaffolding?
- What insurances should a roofer have?
- Who is liable for scaffolding?
- Shop Fitters Public Liability insurance
- Tiling Contractors Public Liability insurance
- Window Cleaning Public Liability Insurance