Professional snagger says food and urine left in new homes

A new construction house inspector, known as a snagger, urges the owners to verify their thorough property after collecting the keys, since he has found some strange things in people’s homes.

“Finding things like sandwiches, food and bottles waste is, unfortunately, quite common,” says the professional Snagger Chris Greenwood, who identifies problems with the quality of the house after construction work has been full.

He says he just found urine bottles, that “they tend to be under the bathrooms or under the shower trays.”

“It makes you ask you what else has been lost,” he adds.

Observe the objective of identifying defects or problems or something that is broken, damaged, not adjusted properly or seems unfinished. The owners generally have a period of two years to identify them and point to the builder of the house to correct.

An industrial body insists on confusion about the problems of hooking builders a bad reputation.

The National Federation of Constructors (NFB) said that merchants are concerned with building a high level and that some hitch is inevitable.

Chris says that his hook inspection service costs between £ 300 and £ 600, depending on the size of the property.

It provides an independent report to the owner, which can be used to raise any problem with the developer.

Chris says that his finding can vary from the mundane, such as the plaster work with potholes, to the strange thing, which includes wiring without wiring plates behind them.

However, Hey also adds that not all the houses he inspects have problems and some have leg constructions to a “very high quality.”

The BBC joined him in his last inspection in a new construction house in Lincolnshire, where he immediately found a moldy sandwich in the LOFT.

“It’s shameful because [it shows] No one has been awake and looked at those elements before completing, “he says.

“It’s a very, very fast check. It took my time to get my staircase and put my head in the loft to identify those problems.

“It does not give the client the confidence that other things have been reviewed if that is the first thing I am putting in my report.”

Chris also discovered that the patio door was not sealed enough, leaving in the cold air and identified a series of problems that gave the bad labor or materials.

Inspector Kelly Skidmore says that the hooked industry faces a “significant resistance” of developers who “are often reluctant to have third -party independent professionals analyzing their workforce.”

You say that its inspections generally discover between 60 and 80 problems by property.

Many are minor cosmetics problems, but says they also discovered serious failures, such as errors in “fire request”: special measures to stop the propagation of fire between different parts of a building.

The new HOMES Quality Board was established to help customers through the process of purchase of new houses.

CEO, Emma Toms, believes that owners have the right to expect their home to be high level and should not need to use snaggers.

However, she says there must be an element of understanding about the conditions in which houses are built.

“They are not built in sterile factories with air conditioning, they are built outside, usually in a muddy field, in all climates of up to 200 people,” he says.

With that in mind, should new owners be less demanding and more understanding about the possible problems they could discover?

“I’m not being demanding,” Chris adds.

“It is a new house. It should be or a high level in the transfer.

“If you bought a new car and were full of abolish, I would sit why. Then, no. The developer needs to collect thesis, identify and rectify them in a timely manner.”

According to the alliance of owners, this is what new construction owners should search when they move.

• The roof tiles are one of the most common problems found in the hitch lists.
• Make sure the walls, doors and external fences are resistant, along with any blockade.
• Pipes: Verify that the water can flow and drain.
• Check the brick and paint work is a good standard.
• Check Ground is right at the entrance and garage doors and the windows are resistant.
• Check the windows and doors inside to make sure they are equipped correctly.
• Make sure the stairs are strong and do not shout when using them.
• Make sure the kitchen accessories are installed correctly and test appliances and reduction.
• Make sure the grout in the bathroom has been done correctly and that the mosaics have been installed correctly. Check the taps and shower work properly.
• Verify cosmetic problems, such as paint, carpets placed correctly and dodge boards are not loose.
• Turn on the heating and make sure the radiators work properly.
• Adjust all toilets to verify that they work and execute each touch to make sure they work.
• Verify all plugs work and adjust correctly to the wall.

The large number of people working on a property can be part of the problem, according to Rico Wojtulewic, Chief of NFB policy.

He believes that subcontracting can lead to confusion among workers, who says he can lose the notion of who is reviewing what.

Rico says that there is a “human error potential” with any construction of the house, but the confusion between the smallest inconveniences and the largest structural problems, which say they are generally less common, has played a role in giving the builders of the house a bad reputation.

He adds: “They really care about the constructions they make and recognize that people are making the greatest purchase of their lives.”

Kate Hatton, from Warwickshire, has used the same professional Snagger twice and believes it is important to see professional advice.

“You have the support of some in trade that can say ‘No, that’s not right'”.

His snagger found problems that went from small cosmetic problems to missing panels and a wall ventilation that was not installed correctly, running the risk of making the water enter the house if it is not rectified.

“I think you always expect something, but some of them surprised me,” says Kate.

Both Chris and Kelly believe that many of the inconveniences they find are as a result of the skills gaps in merchants, a feeling resonated by construction trade.

Rob Sanderson, senior manager of Lincolnshire Construction Company Gelder Group contracts, says he has seen a change in workers.

He feels that the most experienced merchants “focused on detail” retire and there are not enough new people who reach the construction industry.

However, he agreed with the NFB, saying that good builders care and “in the first instance, buyers should give the developer the opportunity to rectify any inconvenience”, instead of Seijs external aid.