Warranty For Your New Home

You can count on Essential Estates to deliver quality and excellence throughout your home, but for added reassurance, all new homes come with a NHBC 10 year Buildmark Warranty.


Peace of mind when you buying a new home

All our homes come with a NHBC 10 year Buildmark Warranty – this means we have complied with the NHBC Standards which set out the technical requirements for design, materials and workmanship in new home construction. This is just one of the added benefits of buying a new home.


Who are the NHBC?

The National House Building Council, commonly referred to as the NHBC, is the UK's leading standard-setting body and provider of warranty and insurance for new homes.

Their role is to work with the house-building industry to raise the standards of new homes and to provide consumer protection for homebuyers – added reassurance when you buy new.

For more information, please visit the NHBC website.

What is covered in the warranty?

Your new home comes with a 10 year structural warranty, meaning that the cost of fixing any damage caused by faults in specified parts of the home, usually the structural and weatherproofing elements is covered.

The 2 year fixtures and fittings warranty. During the first two years, you have the added reassurance that if something goes wrong within your home, and is covered by the 2 year fixtures and fittings warranty, we will make sure it is put right.

†First 2 years covered by Builder Warranty & NHBC Guarantee or similar. Years 3-10 covered by NHBC insurance or similar. Full exclusions and limitations can be found on the NHBC website. Available on virtually all of our developments.