As you're going through the quote process for house insurance, you'll be asked what materials your house and roof are made of. Below are a couple of tables to help you out if you are unsure what to choose.
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Construction type for the house |
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Aluminium |
Including extruded aluminium weatherboard profile and other types of metal not specifically mentioned |
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Brick |
Including burnt clay, sand lime, engineering bricks, fly-ash clay bricks |
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Butynol or malthoid |
Butynol is a synthetic rubber membrane for roofing and waterproofing. Malthoid is a 2 ply felt material impregnated with bitumen which is also covered in a fine sand |
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Concrete |
Including concrete block, cement and tilt panel, fibre cement sheet cladding and hardieplank weather board. |
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Fibre cement |
Including asbestos cement cladding, roughcast and stucco |
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Iron or steel |
Including colorsteel and corrugated iron |
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Stone |
Including sandstone and schist |
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Wooden products |
Including timber, palliside, weatherboard and plywood |
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Construction type for the roof |
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Concrete |
Including cement and roughcast |
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Glass |
Including glass roofing panels |
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Metal |
Including long run roofing, corrugated iron and pressed metal tile profile |
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Plastic |
Including polycarbonate, butynol and PVC roofing |
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Slate |
Including overlapping stone pieces fitted together |
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Tile profile |
Including shingles and bitumen, terracotta, clay or cement tiles |
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