EXPERT ADVICE
A BUILDER’S VIEW
DEALING WITH THE DREADED TASK OF OF SNAGGING
Your project may seem all but finished, but as expert builder Andy Stevens advises, there’s one more important stage to deal with to get that quality finish…
ANDY STEVENS Is an award-winning builder and broadcaster. You can find him on Instagram
@andystevenstv
Like most tradesmen, I readily admit that snagging is the part of the job I least look forward to. Most of the time, the work has been done and we are looking forward to moving onto the next job, but over the years, I have had some small snagging lists — and some huge ones. The largest I had was 42 pages of A4 (the client put a picture on each page and hadn’t done a snagging list before so there was all sorts on there!).
This is often an area that can cause much disagreement between contractor and client. I will therefore do my best to explain snagging for both sides.
Firstly, what is snagging? According to my dictionary, snagging is “the process of checking a new building for minor faults that need to be rectified”. This is true, but it’s also a little vague. All works have snagging, from decorating to major new builds. At the end of any type of works, snagging is when a list of minor blemishes is put together for the contractor to go through and put right. However, there has always been a grey area of what is snagging and what isn’t.