The UK's Leading Snagging Site

We have had coverage on Tonight with Trevor McDonald, GMTV, in the Sunday Times, the Telegraph, in the Mail on Sunday and many more.

Snagging.org is the UK's No1 New Homes Snagging Site and aims to empower new home buyers by providing:
1. Snagging Forums
2. New Homes News and Snagging Stories
3. Great value Snagging Inspections and the Snagging Guide
4. Snagging Photos and much more

OFT to Recommend Statutory Redress Scheme

The OFT continues to be supportive of industry efforts to implement a code and will continue to work with the code body and stands ready to advise on request. The market study set out a timetable of milestones and deadlines with the purpose of ensuring progress, against the background of previous reports and recommendations about [...]

Blog about your new build experiences

Newhomeblogs.co.uk our sister site has been much unloved over that last few months, so we have given it some tender loving care and are now looking for new bloggers. If you are buying a new build home and would like to blog about your experiences then head over the new home blogs. We would love [...]

Consumer Code for Home Builders

Zurich was an original signatory to the industry’s proposal to form an industry code to deal with the issues raised in the market study report. As agreed between the OFT and the industry, the proposal for the homebuilding code envisaged that the code would have provided the ‘established means’ for the control of unfair commercial [...]

Wimpey’s ‘bad workmanship’ on new-build

Mr Willey, who works in the building trade, decided to put up the warning after three years of complaining about the four-bedroom property which he moved into in June 2006. He said: ‘I would’t wish on anyone what I’ve had to go through. It’s a lot of money to spend and you expect a new [...]

Residents threaten legal action against Persimmon Homes

In a recent incident, workers cut through a water main and flooded the road and residents say they’ve not received so much as an apology. One woman seeking legal advice, who didn’t want to be named, said: “They don’t seem to give a damn. It was like a river in Gaston Way and the water [...]

New Build Heating Problems

Heating problems are common in many new build homes. Read this on the Montgomerie Park Residents’ Association Site and find the results of their poll: “Anyone on the Persimmon estate (or any of the others) have an issue with the heating of their property? I have been having a bit of a debate with builder [...]

Are you the victim of bad builders?

A new BBC television programme is looking for people across the UK whose lives and properties are currently in a state of chaos or disruption thanks to cowboy workmen. This is your chance to get the job finished properly  and call to account the builders, plumbers, electricians, roofers or joiners responsible for the problem. Please [...]

Couple shame Bovis with internet list of dozens of faults with new £700,000 home

Instead, it has been dogged by botched jobs and unfinished building work which has left them living in a dusty construction site. Faults and repairs mean they are frequently without power and their garden is too dangerous to enter after being dug up twice because of drainage problems. Read more about Bovis HomesVisitors to Bovis [...]

Couple’s internet protest over builders blunders

A couple whose £700,000 newly-built home is still unfinished seven months after they moved in have become a surprise internet hit after setting up a website cataloguing their domestic woes. The couple, who have four daughters, claim they have been left living in a dusty construction site, frequently without power or appliances. Entrepreneurs Rennie and [...]

Homes from Hell 2008

We are also keen on home-related stories such as first time buyer nightmares, fights with local planning departments over new homes or extensions, a builder who wants to blow the whistle on bad practice, the estate agent selling duds etc. If you have VIDEO FOOTAGE of your House from Hell we are definitely interested! Please [...]

OFT Market Study Update: Home building in the UK

In addition to gathering evidence, we have been working hard to ensure that our study complements other reviews across government and minimises the burden on our stakeholders. In particular we have held discussions with the NAO about its announced study into part of the planning regime. The two organisations have worked together to make sure [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 So you are not alone, lets hope that the OFT actually do [...]

National House-Building Council

The Watchdog team investigated the National House-Building Council (NHBC) yet again on 21 April 2008. It seems that the NHBC or some builder is on televsion every six months or so without fail. Hopefully, the Office of Fair Trading will make recommendations in the summer that will improve consumer rights. I bet Imtiaz Farookhi the [...]

Mum told boiler ‘could be lethal’

When Lisa Peplow and her family moved into a brand new home she rightly assumed everything had been fitted to the highest standards. But at the weekend the mother-of-two discovered the boiler installed by Persimmon Homes before she moved in, could have leaked potentially fatal carbon monoxide fumes.

New Consumer Site Launched

The site is in a blog magazine format with sections on Consumer Complaints, Consumer Rights and general consumer information.

Dream home turns to nightmare

“As soon as we collected the keys we noticed problems with the decor throughout the building. The dry lining was visible on every wall and ceiling. We also found that the kitchen had not been built to the specification we had been given, there was one kitchen unit less. As if that wasn’t enough, the [...]

Couple’s new home is ‘plagued by problems’

A Basingstoke couple say their new home is turning out to be less than a dream. Richard Jones and Natasha Lewis moved into a new two-bedroomed house built by Persimmon Homes, off Old Kempshott Lane, last December. Since then, they say many of their complaints about the property have been left unresolved. The latest problem [...]

My home became an electrical deathtrap

A leading housebuilder has launched an investigation into how one of its homes was turned into a deathtrap by damaged electrical wiring. Darren Korol suffered 230-volt shocks when he touched the cooker in his new £220,000 Barratt Homes. flat in Crawley, West Sussex. The 41-year-old print salesman’s children suffered jolts from the bathroom taps. An [...]

 

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