How To Conduct Successful Snagging Surveys For Your New Home
When home buyers move into their brand new home, the list of tasks can be overwhelming.
What is a snagging survey?
Once you are handed the keys to your new home, one of the first things you’re asked to do is to complete a snagging survey or snagging list. It may not sound like a big deal, but these lists often morph into several pages of painstaking dents, marks, finishes and missing door furniture.
If you don’t flag it up, it doesn’t get fixed.
With the average house purchase price of £225,956, the last thing you want to be doing is turning Sherlock to find every single tiny fault with your new home that you can. Then sitting around whilst workmen traipse in and out of your home to remedy the faults.
If you haven’t done this new home thing before, or even if you have, how can you be sure you know what you are looking for?
Rainbow’s snagging survey service offers you an opt-out from this gruelling task.
When you use Rainbow, you don’t need to be in the house to do the list, which also means escaping making cups of tea for tradesmen as they work their way through the lists too.
Often new homes have similar issues as they are completed and workmen miss similar things.
Having snagged hundreds of new homes like yours, our snagging survey teams know exactly what to look for when it comes to finding snags in your new home.
Tips for successful snagging surveys
If, however, you want to grab the responsibility of your own snagging list by the scruff, here are a few tips to make sure you catch all those shortcuts, memory slips and Stanley knife scuffs.
- Take a methodical approach – Take each house room by room and don’t forget the cupboards, stairs, garage and landing areas.
- Be thorough – Open every door and window and turn every key. Move furniture or ideally, conduct your survey before your furniture arrives and boxes are unpacked so you can see what you are looking at.
- Get down low – By sitting on the floor you’ll get a whole new and perfectly valid perspective on your property. This will help you to spot any potential gaps around plugs or window sills. Be careful not to miss anything because you may find resistance if you try and add to the list later.
- Don’t fall for the ‘I’ll fix it later’ trap. – Remember, you paid for a property and there are certain standards that your new home builder is legally obliged to meet to be worthy of their certification. With all the other tasks that a new home brings, such as putting up curtain poles and door numbers, you’ll find that you have more than enough DIY to do without taking on extra workload.
Of course, you could always arrange for your snagging survey to be carried out by our professional snagging team before you even move in, reducing the chance of missing snags. Then, on moving day, all you need to worry about is finding the kettle.
To arrange a snagging survey for your new property, call 01623422488.