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Snagging List

What is a snagging list?

A snagging list is created by new build buyers in the UK and Ireland to detail the snags and defects in their new home.  Many opt to create their own snag list using a snagging checklist or guide book which represents great value compared to the cost of using a professional snagging company. A company [...]

Ignored by Taylor Wimpey

An Earley first-time buyer is still battling with the builders after moving into her new home at the end of June. Emma Kinghorn bought a £160,000 flat in a Taylor Wimpey development in Regis Park Road and is beginning to wish she had not. Miss Kinghorn, operations manager at a leisure centre, said snags at [...]

Bloor Homes Blog

Crag Williamson, author of A Foreign Education and new build buyer has started to blog his house moving experiences: “I will be using this blog to share the new home experience with you in all of its financially crippling glory. Together we will go through the ups (“…darling, I think we need a 42 inch [...]

Persimmon Homes Campaign Site

Steve Soulsby, the owner of a Persimmon house of horrors, was so shocked by the experience of buying a new build that he has set up a website to share his experiences with prospective buyers. Steve says that the houses have been thrown together as quick as possible without regard to quality, the focus is [...]

In need of repair

Builders Bellway Homes North East jumped into action when I asked for an explanation about Andrew Hutchinson’s complaint. Andrew told me how his new home needed various repairs after he moved in. Now the Newcastle-based company has given Andrew top priority to clear his list of outstanding problems. Bellway will re-surface the crumbling drive at [...]

Drumbow Homes

Drumbow Homes are the worst builders I have experienced for snagging. and in general. I had to involve NHBC to exert pressure on them to do anything. I had a snagging list as long as my arm, what was worse is that they when they had turned up to do any of the things they [...]

Living in our £400,000 Barratt homes has been a nightmare

Angry homeowners protesting about problems with their £400,000 luxury Barratt Homes (archive) have staged a demonstration on a prestigious Barratt estate. Residents on The Hawthorns development in Burnside, Rutherglen, say they have suffered a catalogue of problems since they bought their dream homes. The owners of eight homes have protested outside the builder’s luxury showhouse [...]

Kings Oak: Homes from Hell

Flooding, running sewage, overflowing toilets, windows that do not close, shoddy workmanship and poor customer service are just some of the complaints made by disappointed homebuyers after they moved into the KingsOak development in Weston Village.Read more… (Archive) Kathryn Deakin, pictured right, aged 29 and her 35-year-old boyfriend Adrian Clarke were among the first people [...]