Homebuilding & Renovating

SNAGGING: WHAT DOES IT MEAN ON A BUILD?

As every trade will admit, this is the part of the job we least look forward to. Most of the time, the work has been done and we are looking forward to moving onto the next job. 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 which can cause disagreements 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

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