Shocking New Build Snagging Inspection

I was a joiner, city and guilds advanced certificate, 5 year apprenticeship, always took pride in my work. Strangely enough, back in the day, the old sweats always wore a shirt and tie, overalls, pencil behind the ear. Most of the so called tradesmen you see now look as though they’re on day release from prison..

As someone who owns a flat and will soon be selling it to buy a house this channel is an one of the most important ones I’ve ever subscribed to.

I like the ''How would you like your ... sir?'' format the most 🤣

A colleague of mine purchased a new house, they were careful with him has they found out he used to a QS for a large building company. However, his neighbour had issues, she took photo's of all the snags and place them on the inside of her car windows, and parked the vehicle outside the showhouse, there were over 100 faults, and the car remained there till the developers sorted all the faults and paid for the independent survey, took them around 7 months.

I'm a domestic cleaner and fixtures and fittings in every new build house I work in are appalling. Bathrooms in particular seem to be very low quality, and most of the internal doors are little better than sheets of cardboard. I love working in old victorian/20's/50's homes, the new builds are just a depressing task.

My Brother purchased a bellway house in Hassocks West Sussex, i snagged it for him when he got the key. One side of a4 in 20 minutes of little bits and bobs. Ground level at front of house above dpc 🤷🏻‍♂️ . I caught one of the Bellway bods walking past to point this out and her reply was ‘ i sell the houses I don’t build them’ Absolutely ridiculous !

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, you Sir are an absolute legend, I’m sometimes embarrassed to be a human being with shoddy and dodgy work like that, kind regards to you Mark from Billericay 👍☀️☀️😀🇬🇧🏡

Working in the finishing trades is a nightmare as you have to fix all the previous cowboy work to get your own job done. Shocking, but happy it's now in the spotlight. Great video.

Just think, this is the now normal standard for houses being built...and people wonder why I don't want to spend £300,000 on a house that isn't even level. Quite literally the houses that Jack built. Get them up, sell them, profit profit profit.

When I was a bricklayer in the late 90s if the brick was out you had to replace it so you would make triple sure everything was spot on build as if your building your own house and take pride in your work, are teachers at college if it was out of plumb for level by 5ml you couldn't fix it the teacher would kick it down so you would learn, it laziness on terrible workmanship. They need to learn how its done right. Keep up the good work

That’s a palace compared to the Bellway home I purchased. Their attempts to resolve issues generally made them worse and they tended to break something else while they were in. I estimated they did around £35k in remedial works and most of the time we ended up paying professionals to come in afterwards. They refused any compensation for our out of pocket and their regional director just told us to take them to court. We gave up and sold after 3 years. Never again!

We bought a brand new house from Bovis nearly two years ago. Had just under 300 snags. I got the impression that the people who built our house were either drunk, incompetent, or just don’t care. Our experiences with Bovis have told us that they are merely a money making corporation for their senior managers and shareholders. Nearly two years later we are STILL waiting for things to be fixed. We will NEVER buy a new house again. The experience has been a nightmare, and I wouldn’t recommend Bovis to my worst enemy. Utter, utter cowboys. (I hope they see this, I would love to explain to them just how crap they are).

If you buy a New Built House employ a surveyor to check everything before you pay for the house and move in. You shouldn't have to but it's wise £600 or so to a Surveyor saves a lot of distress and a good builder checking as well it's cheap against the problems you will have to solve later. These videos are yes 'Absolutely shocking" well done for making them.

Fantastic video. Me and my boss do external work to houses (painting render, woodwork, replace uPVC frames and windows). We get called out to loads of new builds in North Manchester for various problems. Example, lady calls to say her bedroom window frame 'weeps' when it rains. Eh? Go to the house, and yes, the main bedroom window frame is leaking water, but from where? Knock out the bottom beading and there's a gush of water! Take all the rest of the beading out, take out the sealed unit and discover the window frame has been installed upside down, and the drain holes are at the top, not the bottom of the frame.... Checked the other frames, all the ones upstairs are upside down, downstairs all correct. Bizarre! Next, called to another new estate, customer complaining there are draughts in all the rooms. Outside we looked at all the window frames and found under every cill there was gaps from a few mm's to an inch, and all filled in with black foam, not expanding foam and finished with silicone, but strips of black foam. Told the customer that they should really get the developer in and sort it out as the workmanship was shocking on a £299,999 house!

Thanks for the work you do. Though it must be difficult doing quality control on a complete absence of quality!

Dude I have been seeing this sort of thing for many years on many sites. YouTube wasn't as big as it is now when I was fitting kitchens on site or I would have done videos of what I came across. I have been unable to work for over 13 years now but more of this needs to be shown. Your doing a great job keep it up I have many stories I could tell including one where I was threatened by the area manager of one major builder to fit a kitchen or never work in the Midlands again after I refused to fit a kitchen because the plasterer had only just finished skimming. I can only imagine what problems the buyer had with that house.

I just remembered, many years ago, early eighties, looking around a show house, Barrett’s, the first thing I noticed while in the living room was daylight coming through under the front bay window!!!

I bought a new property in Turkey 20 years ago .Just sold it .The work was great .No problems at all .They could show these builders how its done.

When i started off in the building trade as a lad i was lucky to work with some top craftsmen . If i built something wrong i’d get a boot in the ass a whack round the back of the head and i’d be ripping it down and rebuilding it. If the trades are getting away with ‘close enough is good enough’ blame the higher ranks for letting it slide.

You do brilliant work and it's a real eye opener to see what can go wrong. Also can't believe you come up to Scotland and caught the only sunny day of the year. 🙂