Gave the sales office a call to check up on the progress yesterday. After a bit of chasing around they came back to me and confirmed that the house will be inspected on Friday (17th) for NHBC sign off. They hope to serve our ten-day notice on either Friday or Monday depending on when they get the inspection completed.
We have been popping over to the site quite frequently and to be honest they appear to have done a reasonable job from the outside. It’s quite strange actually as I keep spotting minor issues with other houses on the development but the only thing that I can spot on our house is the missing outside tap and a couple of holes that need sorting under the soffits.
We have very bravely decided to snag the property ourselves. I’m an engineer by trade and tend to be bit of a fussy git at the best of times. Coupled with a reasonable grasp of the trades and a couple of refurbs under our belt I’m hoping that I should pick up a majority of the problems.
Hopefully I’ll be back with a fairly short snagging list and a moving date in a few days………
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Hi,
My snagging day was the day before moving in and it was done with the site Manager, my sister was with me and we pointed out a lot of things not done properly he had the water hose on in the rear garden so couldn’t get to see much,but I did notice that the water was not draining away from the patio doors so I ask him why this was, he replied “oh that’s ok me darling it will drain away, it didn’t and the reason being there was no drainage put in.” AND HE SAID HE DIDN’T LIKE CALLING IT SNAGGING LIST ( IT WAS DEMO DAY)
After a few days of being in my new house i received the snagging list form that it should have filled in, guess what he put NIL. I am very unhappy with my new home a 5 year old could have done a much better job.