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Drey Home Insurance — How Much Fits in a Hollow?

Cover for the building, the contents or both. The premium depends on the cover level, the excess is fixed, and the worked claim shows exactly what the story customer would receive.

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Demo rate cardFrom £9.50 a month; £100.00 excess; cover up to £330,000.00

The pound values and percentages on this page are invented AcornBank product terms, chosen for a realistic bank-style example. They are not current market offers, an invitation to deposit or invest money or a forecast of what a real bank will pay.

Product detailDemo terms
Account typeBuildings and contents insurance
Rate, reward or chargeFrom £9.50 a month; £100.00 excess; cover up to £330,000.00
Cover limitup to £330,000.00 depending on the level chosen
AccessClaims in the story are reported to the branch and paid less the excess; a 14-day cooling-off period applies in the model
Eligibility in the scenarioA story customer who owns or rents a fictional drey in one of the twenty regions
Fees£100.00 excess per claim
Cover levelsContents only at £9.50 a month; Buildings only at £14.25 a month; Buildings and contents at £19.75 a month
CurrencyGBP (£), used solely for fictional calculations

Try your own numbers

Change the amounts to see what Drey Home Insurance would do in the story. Fictional figures, no application, no advice.

Monthly premium: Contents only£9.50£114.00 a year
Cover limit
£30,000.00
Paid out on a £1,200.00 claim
£1,100.00after the £100.00 excess

Drey Home Insurance is buildings and contents insurance in the Insurance range, used for putting the drey back together after a bad day. Its live rate card, summary and worked tables sit above this text and update whenever the product record changes.

Know which amount the limit describes

For Drey Home Insurance, the range is up to £330,000.00 depending on the level chosen. For a savings product it is the opening and maximum principal; for an ISA it is the demo annual allowance; for a card or overdraft it is an assumed credit limit; for the mortgage it is an advance range; and for investments it is the minimum lump sum and any allowance. An interest credit may take savings just above the stated principal cap; further deposits then pause.

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CheckWhy it matters
MinimumAmounts below the model minimum do not qualify for this product scenario.
Maximum or allowanceProjection examples stay within the stated principal cap or demo allowance.
Already at the cap?Assume no further additions; accrued interest or growth is still credited.
Credit limitAvailable borrowing is a limit less debt already used, not income or savings.

The worked examples show the product-specific calculations and timing assumptions in full.

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What the example does not promise

All figures are invented and shown to make the demo useful to read and crawl. No money is held, no application is available, and no deposit-protection, regulatory or tax-wrapper status is claimed. Calculations do not account for personal tax, inflation or unstated changes in rates. The fictional bank manager can guarantee only that the next paragraph contains no real acorns.

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