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Scanner hire insurance

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Hello. Until recently I have hired a scanner and arranged short term insurance with my existing insurers for the period of the hire to protect me should the kit be damaged etc... I have just heard that this will no longer be available to me unless I want to take out insurance for a longer period i.e. 6 months. The rate offered is very good but would rather pay per job at a slightly higher rate for a week at a time than have the fixed overhead. I am hoping that someone might have a few suggestions of where I might find this service in the UK? I wish that insurance could be included with my hire rate for the scanner it would make life so much easier!
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Hi Tom,
Depending on what type of scanner you need, we can offer hire including insurance and an operator from as little as £500 per day, dependent on length of hire.
www.miningsurveys.co.uk
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Hi guys,

Having exactly the same issue trying to get insurance on a hired scanner for a 1 day personal project to the value of £16,000.

Any success stories?
RSA sent me in circles I'm afraid.
Local broker has a minimum £150 policy charge.

Been sort of directed to:
https://www.jcbinsurance.com/short-term-hired-in-plant
and https://www.performance-insurance.tv/
Going to try both tomorrow and will post to tell you how it went.

Don't really want to pay more than £50 considering the hire of the scanner (Focus 3DS120), scanner accessories, spheres, tripod, laptop and Scene dongle comes to £195 for 24 hours!
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liamglazier wrote:Don't really want to pay more than £50 considering the hire of the scanner (Focus 3DS120), scanner accessories, spheres, tripod, laptop and Scene dongle comes to £195 for 24 hours!
The problem for these companies isn't how much your paying initially for the hire, it's how much a replacement is if you break it or it's stolen.
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I'm currently trying to get insurance for scanner hire can anyone recommend a broker, I must have phoned around 15 yesterday and not one would offer cover.
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When I need to hire a different scanner now I use Optical survey (called sunbelt now) and have an Aplant account that atuomatically adds insurance for the hire period. Better to buy a scanner though!
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who is your aplant account with or is this included in the hire? I'm trying my hardest to get cover by tomorrow as I'm meant to be carrying out a survey for a charity over the weekend, but it looks like I'm going to have to postpone.
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Optical survey are part of Aplant so I had to set up an account with them, someone at Optical/Sunbelt should be able to help there. https://www.sunbeltrentals.co.uk. Hope that helps. Tom
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Off the top of my head I think the insurance is about 15% of the hire cost.
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