Custom Building Questions

[.Kencs]

Do I need insurance to build custom pcs for people?
Going to start building custom pcs for friends, not charging them, only charging for parts and it's an ideal way to broaden my experience on building pcs, but not sure what, if any, insurance il need and 'roughly' how much? If all goes well I can start making a small profit from it later down the line...

Thanks in advance for any advice

 

[.Kencs]

Insurance against possible damage caused to components during assembly (and even overclocking!) is very popular among big sites such as Overclockers, but I doubt there's an insurer who'd bother with a mere couple of units a month.

You're better off investing in a power surge protector, where 99% of the problems are anyway if you know what you're doing, and charging a bit of a markup so you're not out of pocket if something goes **** up. Besides, if you start off doing it for free, you'll struggle to charge for it in future, and you'll be putting other local people out of business. Charge £50 for it; it's not much in relation to standard markup.

I was more looking into if I build a pc and something goes wrong after I've done the build and they try and say it's my fault I just wanna cover my own back...