Building Insurance Repairs

Stress UK has more than 20 years experience working for major insurers, loss adjusting and engineering practices throughout the UK and abroad. We understand that insurers and their agents rely on a network of approved contractors to provide swift, efficient and sympathetic building insurance repairs for domestic and commercial properties. Providing a high level of detail and professionalism ensures much smoother and more efficient contracts. Stress UK specialise in remedial foundation, structural repairs and perils (fire and flood) contracts.

Building insurance repairs – prompt response and dedication to detail

Our highly experienced insurance services managers and crews can react rapidly to reduce the impact of the accident, the overall period of disturbance, and the cost to insurers. Main Contractor status enables our insurance services team, to carry out entire projects from start to finish. We are also happy to act as specialists on behalf of your specified principle contractor.

Remedial foundation – subsidence repair

We provide a comprehensive service to insurers and private individuals with ASUC+ 12 year guarantee mass concrete underpinning and structural repair schemes. Our other services include:

  • Foundation Rescue – Permeation piling which carries a 12 year ReFORCE shield insurance backed guarantee
  • Ground stabilisation
  • Slab levelling
  • Mass concrete and reinforced underpinning
  • Piled raft underpinning.

Structural reinstatement

Stress UK provides a ‘Design and Install’ service to repair structural cracking and strengthen masonry. As a Helifix Approved Installer, we are licenced to design and install masonry reinforcement products to enhance our structural repairs, we pride ourselves in the highest standard of finishes to maximise aesthetic rehabilitation. All structural repairs and associated cosmetic refurbishment are covered by the ASUC+ 12 year guarantee.

Impact damage repairs

Moving vehicle impacts with buildings can have serious structural and cosmetic implications – Stress UK’s specialist services and our dedicated team can act quickly to help stabilise the structure and make good any structural or cosmetic damage that may have occurred.

Fire and flood repair

Following a fire or flood our team of highly skilled surveyors, engineers and tradesmen provide efficient and sympathetic services to solve the problems quickly and allow the client to return to a repaired building in the shortest possible time.

Refurbishment and building works

As well as undertaking specialist building insurance repairs and services, we are able to deliver general refurbishment and building services, affording the client the peace of mind, in that the issue will be dealt with by one team.

Building insurance repairs – fire, flood and subsidence
Buildings insurance repairs
  • Subsidence claims
  • Insurance perils
  • Structural repairs
  • Helifix approved contractor
  • ReFORCE approved installer
  • 12 year ASUC+ guarantee
  • Helifix guarantee
  • ReFORCE Shield guarantee
  • Project management
Fire damage to a property roof

Fire damage restoration

The extent of the fire damage restoration needed to repair the roof can be seen in this example.

Fire damage repair underway

Insurance perils including household fires

The entire project was managed by Stress UK, ensuring all areas of the repair were completed safely and efficiently.

Roof repairs completed

Roof repairs completed to a high standard

Our fire and flood restoration projects aim to be completely swiftly and always cosmetically finished to a high standard.

Restored and ready to move back in

No signs of fire damage

Side view of the completed roof.

Underpinning a house

Underpinning a house

Our residential projects often include underpinning and other ground stabilisation techniques.

Helifix underpinning and ground stabilisation

Helifix underpinning

As ASUC members, our teams carry out traditional underpinning to the highest standards.

Structural repairs to brickwork

Structural repairs

Residential properties often require structural repairs to highly visible parts of the building.

The finished project

Completed structural repairs to brickwork

Careful cosmetic restoration of the brickwork ensures the repair is as invisible as possible.

ReFORCE – structural repairs in London and nationwide

Using the ReFORCE system

The innovative ReFORCE system is shown in action on one of our residential projects.