Shocking New Build Snagging Inspection 

They probably are.

Bang on about the old boys. I started my apprenticeship in '84, working in a factory and I still work in one now. Many of the old school shift men came to work wearing a shirt n tie. Professional pride in what they were was reflected in everything they did.

I couldn't give a shit what they wear as long as they do the job properly.

​@John Martinez Unfortunately you won't find that out until its too late. That's why first impressions matter. It's not rocket science.

@@mojorisin8368 NVQ. Brought in as an attempt by commerce and the Govt to provide a quick fix to the systemic lack of investment in all trades over the previous 20 years. An indentured tradesman or an NVQer to work on anything in my house? I know what I'll pick, every time.

Thanks for your hard work, domestic cleaning is hard work

So true..

@@pauliepaul3697 Why, is she cleaning your house?

@@robovac3557 he's shagging her

@@robovac3557 Your life got any better since posting this?

Mate of mine had to wait almost 2 years before he had a internet line put in and 8 months before they made his drive way. Now it got to the point where he was living in a Travelodge so as he could actually do his job - he was in freelance cyber security. Ended up getting a solicitor involved, lots of money later, he was still unable to back out of taking ownership of the house. To this day, the driveway still needs replacing as the bricks had sunk and flooded. The house cost £320k+thousands more in solicitor fees and hotel expenses.

The car is a brilliant idea

That’s a great idea. The new build flat I bought in Crawley many moons ago (have since sold) was built by Fairview and they employed a nasty clamping company on day one. Those thugs would have clamped that car instantly. Poor first time buyers were being clamped while moving in ffs but there were no spaces as the road wasn’t even built. Fcuking scandalous.

Couldn't clamp her car, as she parked it on a adopted highway.@@FuknNoName

@@taffman1 yeah the new build estate road was private I guess for a long time and way before the clamping rules were changed. Often the police would be called but had no powers whatsoever. Nasty nasty people those clampers.

I’ll be honest I bought a Bellway homes for six years ago and there was so many snagging problems half of them Bellway refused to resolve Some of them they even didn’t acknowledge or even a problem

Don't buy new!!!

brought ????????????????????????????????????????? bought

It's very easy to criticise other peoples work ,are you that perfect in your job ?.a lotvof the time people need to manage there expectations, I bet over 50 percent of your snags fell within in the limits of nhbc guidence.

Omg , who the fk is doing this work Def not tradesman, I'm not a tradesman but looking at this horror , vents , gable ends etc etc

bovis attitude to buyers is this:- • we only have to sell you a house ONCE for us to receive our bonus sad, but true.

I work on these building sites and the general attitude is nobody cares and you'd have to be silly to buy one so why break your back to make it amazing. Somebody is always going to buy it regardless, like you did. I do take pride in my job, when I do private work and domestic. On site it's a different story. We simply aren't given enough time for one. You have ten different trades stepping over eachother. There's no rhyme or reason to the scheduling of different trades. So you'll have one trade in to fix a snag, then another trade comes in and makes it a shit hole again, rinse and repeat. If they had any common sense they'd get everything done then work on the snags but it doesn't work like that. Upper management is the issue. I have been sat in the office with a site agent while he's on the phone to his higher ups. He was telling his superior that what they are asking for simply cannot be done in the timeframe they are requesting. The response from above was "I don't care what has to be done, just get it done". He argued it but eventually was told to just get on with it or lose his job. So yeah, the problems come from way up top and trickle down. As someone who has worked on these houses I will never ever buy one. You had 300 snags, that's only the ones visible to the human eye. Who knows what's hiding out of sight. I've been told to lay flooring over floors where a leak is present and when I said we shouldn't be doing it was told "sorry are you buying the house? Then what's the issue.". Shut up and get on with it is their attitude. So why try. We know the end result will be shit. So I don't pour my sweat and tears into it anymore. I will for private jobs and domestic. But not for cowboys.

@@Smartacus420 Thanks for your comments👍. You have highlighted all the reasons I would never buy a house from a large scale developer again, I have learned my lesson! The only way I would buy a brand new house in future would be if my numbers came up on the lottery and we could afford to have a house privately built by one very reputable building company. Even then we would employ somebody to check every single stage of the build to make sure it is being done right!

​@@waltersobchak1719sorry if I sounded like a dick. The point is that all of us tradespeople on site want to do a perfect job, most of us do take pride in it. However we simply aren't given the time or the right conditions to do a good job. I know lads on site who really do know their stuff. But even if they tell site agent they need two days to get it done properly, site agent will insist it's done in one day! Hence the bodge jobs. It's just a big production line to the boys at the top. Pump out houses quick as possible and get rid. These days they are struggling to sell any of them so now they're selling them off to councils and refugees. I hate them as much as you do and I work on them every day. Sorry you had to deal with it, good luck with your lottery ticket :)

its just market, it just works mate, pay the price for privatising the building industry! Thanks Thatcher!

@@SMGJohn How can you blame Thatcher for disgraceful standards and absolutely no concern as to how these houses were left.

@@stephenc1795 Because they made it so private builders have to get building inspections approved, but Thatcher made it so private inspectors are a thing and no longer require council or local gov to do it. So here you have classic example of corruption being very easy to accomplish.

@@SMGJohn Wow I didn't know that, thanks for the info

I think that's why the masonry snags are my favourite. You know a brickie is going to have a fantastic day coming back to fix some of the shockers in these videos.

At least you got rid of it!!

I was surprised someone bought my House it was a Bellway but I had been through a lot of snags and like you said more times than not I at to get someone to come in after and redo the work and it ruined a lot of the pleasure of buying a new House, the sales people went from being pleasant to me to making me feel I was the only one complaining on the whole Estate and were quite catty to me I just at to get out the NSBC is not worth the paper it is written on

You should name and shame that manager. I have also come across arrogant bosses like that in my time and guess what they never get the better of me. They might think that they are at the top of the tree but guess what there is always someone higher than them. Bigger they are the harder they fall.

Mate these big developers are just scumbags.

Haha yeah, I worked for a wanker like that once, he thought the world had to stop turning for some shit little extension or something, he wouldn't graft though, lazy twat, pure bully, full of shit, they all are, seriously I would be embarrassed to admit I worked for them never put them on cv for a reference, laughable cowboys

it's like doing an IQ test on someone with no intelligence 🤣

I learned my business on worksites a bit later than you mate, never got a clip over the ear but was definitely made to feel like a complete fuckwit for doing something stupid on a few occasions. It definitely made me better at my job (not doing that again ffs!) and probably also made me a bit stronger as a person, better able to take a bit of criticism and improve. Pretty sure all that kind of thing is illegal due to "potential emotional distress" and whatnot these days. Cheers ;)

Yep I was lucky enough to work with some really good tradesmen back in the 90's, my dad being one of them. From what I've seen, there aren't many old boys on site nowadays, all young 'uns.

Don't think you know what your talking about. The standerds in the 80s and 90s was horrific. You cant even compare them with the standerds expected off nhbc now. I know ive worked in each decade!! The differnce is there was no internet in those days. If you sent a 'snagger' round the 'good old houses' they would be alot worse than today's modern houses. ​@MonstaTrapz

fair dinkum love from England mate 👍🏻

@@pauliepaul3697 Appreciate it Paul, have a good one matey ;)

Yah, my mum moved into one and every room had “blown nails” in the plaster exposing the scrim tape and carpet was littered with plaster. “Oh it’s drying out” they’d say like it was acceptable. It was the fricken show house too. Her snagging list was shockalockalockin’

@@FuknNoName i have done 2 houses in UK as snagger, and boy the list of things .... i had around 50 pictures ... for house that cost them half a million ... i knew it will be bad but damn ....

Ironically a blind person is actually better with their hands

It’s called not giving a flying fuck

Underpaid, overworked and most likely undertrained aswell, these cookie cutter homes are built to maximize profits at any cost.

Are they British?

@@gorgen23 Well they all can't be Polish and Latvian.

I'm in Devon and I have my own little Roofing firm. You wouldn't believe the state of some of the roofs and how many we have repaired or had to reroof. It's honestly mind blowing, oh well, it guarantees me work for years to come, at least.

SHOW US THE BLOODY PHOTOS, OR IT DID NOT HAPPEN.

Depends on the era but pretty much dead on. 50s midlands estates were a bit cheap, post-war and all, but check out the 30s ones, very good still. The main issue council houses faced over time was lack of maintenance.

The Spec on building council houses was high grade than on private housing

@@draconianTL Definitely. My house is 30's, Ex council house. Solidly built and was well maintained by whoever has had it over the years. Only had to replace the heating system and some new windows and doors. Always remember my Sister buying a new build in the 80's and my Dad just use to shake his head when he'd visit her, along with banging the plaster and getting his spirit level out. Explainig how badly built it was 😂

Well I think that's the issue isn't it, most the issues don't actually get fixed. Because you probably do have to just, level it and start again for some of these issues they probably have a cost and risk analysis that basically makes the call. It's cheaper to just sell it as is, don't tell anyone and pay a small fine if they get forced to later down the line.

So what is the fine? I have a certificate from the developer saying it meets nhbc guidelines but it doesn't. Who fines them? Who rectifies the work or do the compensate you? Is the buildmark insurance null and void if you bring up the issues but it's not resolved?

Well you can pull out one brick and move your air brick where you want it. As for the out of plumb walls, you get to live with that.

Because rules have changed. It used to be that all the houses on site were checked, now they are only required to do a percentage so the housing company cherry picks the best to be inspected

thats absolutely shockalockalockin!!!

It's rather doubtful you were able to figure out what's multiple separate occupations in one go. A more likely version is you did what seemed best to a DIY approach, resulting in something that has a lot of potential issues. Lemme guess: Wooden walls with overlapping boards for the outside? You've had no calculations done on your insulation fire rating?

​@@SanderSA-ny3lh there is no manual trade you can not teach yourself to do. In my experience tradesmen are taught how to do it wrong on site, then walk away after 3 years and consider themselves "qualified". Every single regulation is freely available online, just slow down, read and do it, if you cock it up then pull it down or take it back and try again, when it's your own build you start as you mean to finish, correctly.