When would you need a home snagging service? The short answer is: whenever a new build home is purchased. New developments take place across the United Kingdom where new builds are quickly constructed, sold and the new owners move in to what they believe is going to be the dream home.
Buying something new is great. That feeling when you get as you buy a new pair of shoes, a spanking smartphone that you have to unwrap from the manufacturers’ seal, the cooker delivered coming straight off the production line or a pristine unused cycle with its mountain bike tyres still smelling of fresh rubber.
It is a sensation that fills us with great anticipation and excitement. But a new house should be all this and more too, should it not? The trouble with a new house is there is so much more margin for error – or snags, as the industry calls it.
After all, a home is not a bike, cooker, smartphone or even a new pair of shoes. There is so much that can go wrong. Snags are defects that manifest as a result of poor quality construction techniques or craftsmanship that has been hurried or even skipped.
If you are buying into a new home on a new estate, you should understand the teams and developers who have worked on this project.
- Electricians, plumbers, carpenters, bricklayers, roofers and labourers will all have had a hand in your new build. But they will all have worked on several others – possibly hundreds more homes.
- Every task they performed will have been against the clock. Time constraints will inevitably lead to small mistakes happening. These are where snags are originated.
- Snags can happen in places you cannot see. The roof and undersoil cabling could cause problems if a defect is later discovered.
- Most snags are not realised until several weeks, or even months, after the new homeowners have moved in. By this time the developers and builders have long gone and moved on to the next development.
- Under most contracts of buying a new home, there is a period where you can get any snags repaired or recovered under an insurance scheme.
A New Build Snagging Survey is important and will give you peace of mind when moving into your new home. It will certainly take a lot of the stress out of relocating and moving into a new house.
