Temporary kitchen for an insurance claim: stay home, keep cooking
A temporary kitchen on an insurance claim keeps your family in its own home after a fire, a flood or an escape of water. We park a fully fitted kitchen on your drive for as long as the repair takes. Check dates or call us with your claim reference.
No obligation. Pick the size, the weeks and the date that suit you.
A kitchen on the drive instead of a hotel room
When a burst pipe, a flood or a fire takes out the kitchen, the repair runs through drying, stripping out, rebuilding and refitting. That is weeks, and on a bigger claim it is months.
Without a kitchen, the options are grim. The whole family moves into a hotel or a rental, the school run gets longer, the pets need somewhere to go, and every meal is bought in. Or you stay home and live on a microwave in the lounge.
A temporary kitchen gives you a third option. The kitchen pod goes on your drive, plugs into your power and outside tap, and the family carries on at home: cooking, washing up and, in the Family sizes, doing the laundry. The house gets repaired around you and you keep an eye on the work.
See exactly what is inside on the kitchen pod hire page, and choose a size on the sizes page.
Escape of water
Burst pipes and leaks under the sink or from the bathroom above. Drying out comes before any refit.
Flood damage
Ground floors and kitchens take the worst of it, and flood repairs run long.
Fire damage
Kitchen fires, smoke and soot damage, and the strip-out and rebuild that follow.
Alternative accommodation
The part of many home policies that pays to keep you housed while your home is repaired.
Four steps to a temporary kitchen on your claim
- Check your policy wording. Look for alternative accommodation, or loss of use, in the buildings or contents section.
- Tell your claims handler or loss adjuster. Say the kitchen is out of use and you want to stay in the house with a temporary kitchen on the drive.
- Get a price from us. Check dates with your size, weeks and postcode, and tell us it is an insurance claim. We send a written quote you can pass on.
- We deliver once your insurer agrees. The pod arrives, we connect it, and it stays until the repair is done.
What to say to your claims handler
“Our kitchen is out of use while the repair is carried out. We want to stay in the house rather than move to a hotel. Can a temporary kitchen on the driveway be covered under alternative accommodation? I can send you a written quote.”
No obligation. We price it first, you book once your insurer agrees.
Keep the policyholder at home for a weekly rate
A family in a hotel means rooms, meals, mileage and a long list of receipts. A kitchen pod on the drive is one supplier and one weekly rate, and the policyholder stays on site to let the trades in.
- Three sizes, from a Compact for couples to a 14ft Family Plus with a washing machine and dishwasher.
- Delivered, levelled and connected to household power and an outside tap by our team.
- Weekly hire, extended a week at a time as the repair programme moves.
- Written quotes against a claim reference.
Restoration and drying contractors managing the repair can book on the policyholder’s behalf. Trade partners, see the kitchen fitters and builders page.
Insurance claim questions
Will my insurance pay for a temporary kitchen?
Many home insurance policies include alternative accommodation cover for when your home cannot be lived in as usual. A temporary kitchen on the drive keeps the family at home instead of in a hotel. Your policy wording and your claims handler decide what is covered on your claim.
Can you invoice my insurer or loss adjuster directly?
Tell us the claim reference and the handler’s details when you check dates and we set the hire up the way your insurer asks.
How quickly can a kitchen arrive after a flood or fire?
Call 0800 870 8885 and tell us it is an insurance claim so we can give you the first date we have.
What paperwork do you provide?
A written quote with the weekly rate and the number of weeks. Claims handlers can ask us for anything else they need.
How long can the kitchen stay?
As long as the repair takes. Insurance repairs run on, so hire runs by the week and extends a week at a time with no break in cover.
Worried about the cost while the claim is agreed? Our cost page explains the weekly price.
Stay in your own home while it is repaired
Tell us the size, the weeks and the postcode. We reply with a weekly price and a delivery date, and our team levels and connects the kitchen on the day.
No obligation. Extend a week at a time if the build runs on.
- Call 0800 870 8885
- Email info@temporarykitchensltd.co.uk