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Home Snagging Definition

Snagging Definition

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What is snagging?

Snagging is a slang expression used within the building industry in the UK and Ireland. It is used to describe the process of defect identification and resolution. For new build homes snagging is carried out by the homeowner or a snagging inspector when notice is served usually two weeks before completion or at any tim during the first two years of the warranty period.

It is used in other contexts such as software development and is an expression that is starting to become more widely known outside the building industry. This is due in part to the fact that most newly-built properties are now bought off-plan exposing the buyers to snagging. In addition, snagging is also the main source of conflict between the buyers of new build and the property developers which has led to regular coverage of snagging in the media.

From Wikipedia:
In the UK astute new home buyers employ the services of an industry qualified expert to 'snag' their new home and not assume the developer has done this thoroughly. A good snagging company will be able to find more faults and be able to ensure the developer puts the faults right within a reasonable time. The problem is that in the UK new homes are excluded from the majority of consumer protection legislation, such as the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982. If they were the buyer would be able to demand that the defects were put right within 14 days. If the developer was unable to do this the buyer could pay another contractor to put the defects right and get the developer to pay. The warranty providers such as the NHBC provide a dispute resolution service but they will insist that the developer has been given eight weeks to put the defects right. Many claim that the NHBC is in the pockets of the developers because ultimately it is the developers not the buyers that pay for the warranty.
 

Snagging Forum

  • Homes from Hell 2008
    Granada Television is looking for stories for the prime time series - Homes from Hell on ITV1. Do you know of anyone whose home has become a living nightmare? We want to hear about all and any domestic disaster zones - the new build house with a monster list of snags, the expensive development riddled with faults, the new estate built in the wrong place, the cowboy built house that’s falling apart etc.
  • OFT Market Study Update: Home building in the UK
    In June 2007, the OFT launched a study into the UK homebuilding market. We said that we would consider whether there were any competition and consumer protection concerns in this sector. This study has now been running for nearly a year and is due to report, as we said at the outset, in September this year. We have been working with many stakeholders and commissioned various surveys to gather evidence. We are now coming to the end of our evidence gathering phase and over the next couple of months will discuss our initial findings with the homebuilding industry, consumer groups and...
  • Finding fault with flagship development
    Families living on a flagship housing development say their lives are being made a misery by a catalogue of failings by building firms. Last month, the Evening News revealed how homeowners on the Fellowes Plain estate on the former hospital site off Wessex Street were being blighted by 20ft-high silos placed within yards of their front doors.
  • Case Study Required House Beautiful
    I write for House Beautiful Magazine and am doing a research on families who have had major problems since they bought their new build home, or who have renovated their properties with a builder who didn’t charge VAT who turned out to be a cowboy and didn’t do the job properly. If you’re female, aged 35-60yrs old, match the above criteria are willing to tell your story to a national publication, please email me at sophie.hoyland@natmags.co.uk with a brief outline of your story along with a photo of yourself by Monday 12th May. If your story is used you...
  • Why our homes should be built to last
    House Beutiful have launched a campaign to improve the quality of new homes in the UK because according to the Office of Fair Trading almost one in four people who buy a newly built home complain of serious quality problems and snagging issues.

Snagging News

  • Homes from Hell 2008
    Granada Television is looking for stories for the prime time series - Homes from Hell on ITV1. Do you know of anyone whose home has become a living nightmare? We want to hear about all and any domestic disaster zones - the new build house with a monster list of snags, the expensive development riddled with faults, the new estate built in the wrong place, the cowboy built house that’s falling apart etc.
  • OFT Market Study Update: Home building in the UK
    In June 2007, the OFT launched a study into the UK homebuilding market. We said that we would consider whether there were any competition and consumer protection concerns in this sector. This study has now been running for nearly a year and is due to report, as we said at the outset, in September this year. We have been working with many stakeholders and commissioned various surveys to gather evidence. We are now coming to the end of our evidence gathering phase and over the next couple of months will discuss our initial findings with the homebuilding industry, consumer groups and...
  • Finding fault with flagship development
    Families living on a flagship housing development say their lives are being made a misery by a catalogue of failings by building firms. Last month, the Evening News revealed how homeowners on the Fellowes Plain estate on the former hospital site off Wessex Street were being blighted by 20ft-high silos placed within yards of their front doors.
  • Case Study Required House Beautiful
    I write for House Beautiful Magazine and am doing a research on families who have had major problems since they bought their new build home, or who have renovated their properties with a builder who didn’t charge VAT who turned out to be a cowboy and didn’t do the job properly. If you’re female, aged 35-60yrs old, match the above criteria are willing to tell your story to a national publication, please email me at sophie.hoyland@natmags.co.uk with a brief outline of your story along with a photo of yourself by Monday 12th May. If your story is used you...
  • Why our homes should be built to last
    House Beutiful have launched a campaign to improve the quality of new homes in the UK because according to the Office of Fair Trading almost one in four people who buy a newly built home complain of serious quality problems and snagging issues.

Newsflash

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