This is the only reason I would never buy a overpriced new build. Keep up good work

To the people saying this is why they won’t buy a new build: this is the benefit of it, you can snag and have issues raised and fixed for two years. If you bought an old build you’d find years worth of issues and sometimes some horrific surprises, and you can’t call the previous owner to come fix it can you? 😂

I have seen much, much worse than this, most of these issues are just lack of care in finishing which seems to be the best you get these days from the larger building firms. The newel posts are probably the most serious issue, absolutely unacceptable they are obviously out even by eye. Very keen eye you have though and a very thorough reviewing of the property.

@snagsure

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

I used to be a Site Manager id be embarrassed if anything id been involved in was as bad as that..what were the site team doing ? Did they check anything before the next trade came in ?..in my opinion its not even in a state to even be snagged..let alone have carpet down & someone move in..if controls were as bad as that what else in wrong that u can’t see..

Let’s be honest about all this. Shame on Anwyl Contractors for having the carpets installed without having snagged the quality of the building first. Absolutely disgusting and the Site Manager should be ashamed of himself. They don’t call them Site Agents anymore.

@willb4278

9 ай бұрын

it happens constantly on my site & i(painter) refuse to snag a house if flooring is down, site management don't care how plots are complete, they only think of bonus

@Smartacus420

6 ай бұрын

That's literally how they are all done...

20 years ago I use to work as an electrical inspector on new build homes. I have never met a builder that said that they would buy a new built house. Most of the houses are built by subcontractors , who got the work from another subcontractor . Some are good but a lot aren’t

Just going to buy my sixth new build house, never had issues like this, buying a Bloor house in Burton that seems great quality, had a Davidsons New Build, fantastic quality, 2 Barrett houses in 2013 & 4 when they had a 5 year warranty, customer service was the best

All site trades need to go on a tour of a Bentley motors assembly line. The car costs as much as one of those houses but is built with pride in the job which is sadly lacking in the building trade. If a Bentley was to leave for the customer with a number of snags as long as your arm they would soon be out of business.

Hi I'm a building surveyor. I think I'd have picked up 75% external issues but about 30% of the internal issues. Id obviously be sacked doing your job lol Great video.

I wonder what the person who bought the house thought of this video? The worst decision I ever made in my life was to buy a new-build house.

@Ramblingpete

Жыл бұрын

Yes most people who work on new builds are apprentices fact just saying

@alison155

Жыл бұрын

DS.. Thank you as right now i am returning to England after 24 yesrs and trying to find a home to live with my son... i am taking notice of your comment, thank you. Changing my ideas for sure.

@mikeh2006

Жыл бұрын

​@alison155 if you buy new. Buy from a smaller developer. The quality is almost always far above that of the larger companies. I think the majority of uk housing stock is 1920s and 1930s though, which subject to survey, is generally a safe bet.

@alison155

Жыл бұрын

@mikeh2006 so odd you replied with advice now... seen a 1920/35 house. Think it was a small farm house once ( 3 bedrooms but large ones) with land sold round for houses, mostly chalet bungalows. Obviously need updating but thats with time as I need to return asap. You can confirmed my thoughts. Been told its sold, strong. So thank you. 😊

@alison155

Жыл бұрын

@mikeh2006 have actually sent this on to son as he is out of the army and trying to look for houses and hold down a new job at same time.. . Many thanks

Thanks for this - extremely helpful - please do more.

My daughter has moved into a new Harron home in Doncaster and whilst Im not a tradesman the finish on this property is shocking. Broken window, broken kitchen cupboards, ill fitting units, the plaster finish all over the house is shocking. Front door cill broken off, loose handles on upvc external doors, the list goes on and on.

Lived in an identical house in the UK, Congleton Cheshire, to be precise. Built by the now defunct Maclean homes in 2001. Terrible workmanship. You could push your foot against the skirting board of the wall separating the bedrooms, and it would move. If you pulled up the carpet there was enough room to slide under a piece of card. Loads of other issues. Now live in the US in a colonial revival house. Built in the mid 1940s. Solid stone, hardwood throughout, sits on almost an acre of landscaped garden in a small rural town in Pennsylvania. The guy who built it owned a lumber yard. We paid less than $185,000 for it in 2016, but because of the rebuild costs, it is insured for over a million! Sadly, we seem to have gone backwards in construction quality.

There is a room in my house with that level of finishing. It was when I was starting my DYI journey, but I am much better now, & think it is about time I redid that first one. I would be shocked if I found it in a new build, it is just not to a professional level. Don't think I could have ever managed those out of plumb posts though, at least not without downing a few beers to start with.

I was called to a new-build house a few years ago to re-plaster a window wall which after only a few months was getting rising damp. It was investigated by the builders and the brickies or plasterers had been throwing their Left-Over muck into the cavity, filling it up almost to window-sill level ..... While I was there the chaps wife went into the kitchen to grill a steak for him, closing the door to keep My dust out - She'd been gone quite a while, so he went to check on her and found her unconscious on the floor and the grill smoking like H*LL ... He called the ambulance, they rushed her off to hospital where she did recover ... Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Caused because the person fitting the Extractor Fan didn't run the trunking through to the outside vent - He didn't even make an opening for the trunking to go through - It was BUTTED against the interior wall so that any fumes couldn't escape - AT ALL! - Your Vent Inspection nudged that one ....

@kenn1936

Жыл бұрын

WOW that is just crazy!!! Although I have seen workmen constantly dump their rubbish under floorboards and cavities when they are working and the boards are up. Seems to be a very common practice with them, cigarette butts - the works!!!

@kat7777

Жыл бұрын

All because of lazy incompetence..... Absolute despicable 😡

@juanbbien

Жыл бұрын

Or rubbish dumped behind the bath panel

@mattwright3768

Жыл бұрын

WOW from cooking a steak🤣

@markrainford1219

Жыл бұрын

Something else wrong there mate, because kitchens don't HAVE to have an extractor fitted at all. Sounds like this extractor was simply set to recirculate.

I asked the builder of my new build house to get the decorator to do all the walls and woodwork white. Absolute shocker of a job most of the MDF skirting boards had been hit with the roller and blathered in Matt emulsion. Most of the skirtings looked like they had been pebble dashed. Then again so did most of the F&&&&&g walls. He offered to get the decorator to put it right. If contractors can’t get it right the first time why would I give them a second crack at it. 🤷🏻

All the fixtures and fittings are the cheapest possible. Unbelievable standard of finish.

Great Nashers dude😁

When I had my Building Business, no matter how big or small the job I would always spend and hour or. More going around absolutely everything and list it of I. Thought it was not right. My attitude was no matter the cost, if I were the customer how would I like it to be presented to me? Never had a complaint for the standard of work on handover.

Like the extractor fan mine is the same my house was built in the 1940s and my landlord got a rewire in 2022 got a extractor fan fitted and he said it's within building regs so he wouldn't change it

The mouth breathing decorators were obviously using that special self-prepping, self-priming, between coat sanding, auto-undercoating one shot top coat paint (again). No doubt applied with a scrap piece of plywood.

Great Video 👍👍Amazing how people leave there work like that 👍👍New build 😡😡Not a very good advertisement for the Seller 😡😡☹️☹️

My Taylor wimpy house had 135 faults. Tge 2 oroblems are site manager and the prices screwed down so much by the builder that they rush to make it oay and site managers dont care and they moan when you ask them to fix the snags i tortured my site manager

The other worrying factors are if this building company are not that bothered about quality control of the finish that you can see whats the condition of the building you cant see and thats actually the structure of the building. But we all know the standard of the building trade these days and their is nothing to choose between any of them. Im glad to be out of it.

Looked at several new builds but opted to not buy new. Quite why anyone would buy a new-build is beyond me. That extractor that wasn't connected is unbelievable. Looks like UK house builders are in a rush to the bottom in terms of quality.

@user-wk7wv8rn8h

Жыл бұрын

This is an extremely common snag, it's time consuming and the workers are extremely lazy

I thought that most of the issues that you picked up on were as you said poor finishing. But I do have to ask did you take off the baby gate at the top of the stairs to see if the newel posts rested back to a plumb position.

Sometimes, the reason the underside of window boards get like this is:- a) The boarder doesnt jack the board up so it's tight underneath and b) When it does get filled and what not, the painter tends to come along and scrape underneath, I say scrape, more... Stab, and they knock the living poop out of it. Same around sockets, when you've got cleaner coming in, they usually scrape the muck off, but, when it comes to boarders cutting the sockets out of the board, they tend to cut the edges in a feather edge type way, so when they put the board up on the wall, if their cut is slightly out, the back box has less chance of hitting the back of the board, but the board is really thin now on them edges and they really cannot take much of a knock. Scruffy patching... Yeah, no need, but some sanding or whatever may get missed, but that's human nature... But in hindsight, NHBC Standards 9.1.3 states no artificial lights and you must be 2m away from the wall when inspecting it, but the problem is, some stuff only comes up depending where the sun is, one minute you can see stuff, clouds come over, and just like that... It's gone and the wall looks as flat as a pancake again... But if people relied on the NHBC Standards... You'd certainly see more "untidy" stuff, for sure, so all in, the most part, most drywall is brought up above and beyond the standards, believe it or not!

I'm about to pay a reservation fee for a new-build that hasn't even been built yet - but I have a get-out inasmuch as if I'm not happy, I can cancel the purchase. Some of the snags in this video are basic ones that a competent DIYer would be embarrassed to admit to, let alone a supposedly skilled tradesman...

I see quite a few of these snagging videos. I’ve never seen any checking of the main roof, or any mention of faults with it. Are they checked (as best you can without the scaffolding) ? The roof is obviously extremely important and once the scaffolding is gone, it can be very difficult to deal with any faults.

Got to say, that baby gate won't be helping the newel posts 🙃

@wdfndn

Жыл бұрын

exactly what I thought, I bet the top is wound right up

I used to work on an Anwyl site 20 years ago and I can say the quality was excellent, its a shame to see this slide.

Not going to lie !

Less snags in a Victorian house but we had builders then with pride and no blind inspectors

@ant3978

Жыл бұрын

im currently rennovating a victorian house and I wouldnt be so sure haha, all the walls are completely wonky and tonnes of issues with shoddy workmanship added to the house over the years, if you inspected it at this detail youd rip it to shreds.

@jonesconrad1

Жыл бұрын

@@ant3978 I hear you, my walls are deffo not level, makes things look weird when you put something new in level. like doors and door linings.

What a pain in the ass for the home buyer....who does the repairs that you find?...and do you go back to check the work has been done?....have you ever watched "New Home Quality Control" guy on youtube, the Welsh guy, some of the things he finds out of plum, or fake weep joint hehe omg

Vent exhaust for the ensuites? Where's all that moisture supposed to go?

as an amateur DIYer, I've just decorated and installed our kitchen diner....seeing this standard of finish, I'm more professional than the so called professionals. Shocking standards of finish and complete lack and care of finish. Think I need to go self employed as a decorator, installer, tiler etc. My skills are way better than this and I'm self taught

@frankryan2505

9 ай бұрын

You do it for the love and unfortunately they do it just for the money. The biggest issue (in my trade at least) was larger companies subbing the work to smaller crews, the rates being so poor that many trades rush the work and leave poor quality work. When I started out i did a lot of sub contract work and doing it right had me at the brink of bankruptcy.

I was kicked off a site in the 1980's for pointing out the same faults in the paintwork he is showing you.

Hi. Im buying a bellway home in westhoughton, The question i have is, do i wait for completion and move in? Or can I get someone like you to survey it before i sign we are mov in August 24

These are the things on the surface that you can see, what about the things you cant

@SickPrid3

Жыл бұрын

true, if they can't do simple things like straight stairs or paint smoothly; imagine what kind of horrifying thing you would find if you digged deeper

Here we cut 1 inch off the bath door bottom to provide air to bath exhaust vent. Its law Otherwise fan cannot remove steam and moisture from a closed room

Cavity-walls must NOT be bridged with insulation(insulation touching the outer walls inside the cavity-wall); or else moisture will transmit from the damp outer wall, through the touching bridging insulation, and into the inner wall; making the inner wall damp inside the building. Injecting foam into the cavity-walls stops the property from breathiing: resulting in drastic condensation saturation of the inner-walls inside the property. Cavity-walls that are already built up can NOT have cavity-wall insulation added. Cavity-wall insulation batts(panels) can ONLY be installed from the very start of construction of the cavity-walls. If cavity-wall insulation is to be used, there must be a large air space gap in-between the face of the cavity-wall insulation batts and the outer wall inside the cavity-wall; this includes an air space gap in-between the face of the cavity-wall insulation batts and the cavity-wall tie drip-points(which must point downwards in the centre of the cavity). Cavity-wall insulation batts must touch ONLY the inner-walls inside the cavity-walls (of course touching the cavity-wall-ties and retaining-clips also). Ask City & Guilds N.V.Q. (S.V.Q.) BRICKWORK teachers for PROOF of this.

I hope the homeowner got some decent lawyers.

The professional tiler who did our bathrooms and hallway was brilliant but new house builders will not pay enough to get professional tilers to do the work. Building companies want to pay tilers £15 per square metre while I was happy to pay £40 a square metre to get it done properly. I also used a specialist sealant company to finish the corners and windows. Plastering not great in many new builds as it just depends how lucky you are if you get a good plasterer. Only had one new starter home 20 plus years ago and it was pretty good but found loads of issues with houses since of the same age. Stairs not secured properly or plaster board on stairs / not attached to the stair frame so kept cracking sealant, bedroom alcove flooring not secured or supported properly, plastered walls rubbish, kitchen worktop bodged with sealant, boiler pipe work messy with no pipe insulation, kitchen sink pipework a total mess in 2 houses but luckily when new kitchen bought installer used less pipework and ran it to the rear of the cabinet giving under sink storage. Radiator push fit connector did not have insert in it so leaked, radiator pipe secured just behind plaster board in corner of a wall so easily drilled into while installing shelf. Outside light 250 V wiring buried just below surface of plaster board (this could have been previous owner). Gutter drains not going to drain but to pipe buried under lawn / grass on top of very heavy clay soil so never drained properly, this is very common.The drain on the garage in this house in the video should go into the gutter and not sit above. Cavities full of rubbish causing damp issues common. Helmet and boot found in lawn while planting flowers. Walls not straight and in one case 2 walls built next to one another rather than one longer wall which were an inch different in depth, why ?

@BigDuke6ixx

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree re the prices for tiling. I've given up pricing new builds. I was getting £15 a metre in 2000.

Watching your video...I just cancelled my Redrow visit😂

@davecomplin4089

4 ай бұрын

It's not a Redrow home though...

New house did you see that door bell 1pound at the pound shop

@Graham_Langley

Жыл бұрын

The placement was the first thing that caught my eye.

Shouldn't there be air bricks?

Oh no... I'm moving into an Anwyl Lymm soon... this doesn't bode well...!

@matthewingham7806

Жыл бұрын

Honestly don't judge everyone by this snaggers are snaggers ....they will always find something . Anwyl are generally a good house builder

@1958david1

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewingham7806 The facts speak for theirselves. The video shows it all. If I saw this video I wouldn't buy.

Do Annwyl not have snaggers before sign off?

@snagsure

Жыл бұрын

No not at all!

Surely it's much cheaper and less hassle to have the work done properly first time. These site managers should be held accountable.

Why isn't the same inspections not applied to the horror new build properties I have seen....

I'm looking to buy a new build, lm a master decorator by trade, and i can tell you one thing that house is disgusting and in takes the p...🙄I won't be buying it unless it's professionally finished... Interesting video 👍

@snagsure

Жыл бұрын

Thank paul

No new build should have these faults but it seems that most of them do. There is an estate being built by me which already has a banner outside one of the houses telling people not to buy them because of the faults the owner has found. Thank God I managed to persuade my son not to buy one last year. I wouldn't touch a new build with a barge pole.

I can’t believe the garden is left to you why not the roof as well just saying

Will they actually fix all this though or just laugh and tell the owner to piss off

@thepracticalsurveyor

Жыл бұрын

As a Chartered Building Surveyor, the latter in many cases. They just don’t care and the purchaser has little redress having paid in full at “practical completion” ( contractual requirement).

A blind man must have passed this at least he has a job

I kept hearing it’s not to bad, but if you purchased anything else like a car, mower, television etc at a vastly lesser cost you wouldn’t either leave the dealership or store with the item in a poor condition, or if it arrived damaged it would be replaced. So sad that these house builders are producing such low standards, and the customer so often has to be inconvenienced financially or in other ways, and that’s if they can even get it agreed to be reviewed.

You picked out just about everything I noticed to! Especially the horrible tile cuts around the door frame in the bathroom. Just sloppy work.

This makes me ashamed to say I’m a uk builder! Shocking lads! Have some pride will ya

The problem You Get When You Employ 'Cheap Labour' - Or - 'Imported' Cheap Labour? 🤔

@Lloyd1885

Жыл бұрын

And an agent who doesnt know a good job from a bad one, or is partial to a 'drink'

Just why do skilled trades leave silly little defects for someone else to pick up-- surely they will have to stand the repair costs themselves?

it's like a factory second...

Why would anyone purchase a house, and movein without a prior full inspection. Have your lawyer, add a rider to the contract, stating the movein date, free of any snags, with the builder providing alternative accommodation until the its snagg free. Carried out a report on an apartment recently. Think i used four or five pieces of painters tape on some very minor snaggs.

No quality or pride today, especially when you pay so much for a house. Shocking

A new build numerous faults and the comment is ' not too bad '. To me it's disgusting. It seems the faults found here were compared to worse faults found on other properties and so didn't seem too bad! What a state.

Bish Bash Bosh

I gave up working on development sites because of the lack of care and quality of the workmanship. If you pay peanuts, expect monkeys.

Absolutely shocking

Bring back the birch and public hangings

"not too bad"?? 🤣 it's a right mess. but i suppose that, by comparison to other properties i've seen, i guess these owners got a lucky escape. that back garden is a swamp. grass up to the brickwork at the front of the house? you already found mould under the kitchen sink. strikes me that that place is going to be a damp, mouldy mess very soon. the entire house is depressing, even without the snags.

What on earth makes developers think that the quality here is good enough??

They're not tradesmen , I think we have to face that fact.

A total demolition and re build would be good to “just improve the presentation of the property” !! If these are the snags on the outside imagine the snags you can’t see!! Would never buy a new build….builders/contractors don’t care anymore…all about the 💴 💴

Considering the owner has spent north of a quarter million quid the fit and finish is shocking. The builder don't give a f*ck though. Build it as cheap and as quickly as possible and charge an extortion for them.

you say you experienced by trade so i suppose the baby gate at top of stairs as got nothing to do with newell posts being out of plumb

At least these kind of homes are about £100,000 right?!

@user-zc9xl4ne3u

10 ай бұрын

400k

i used to do snagger and hated it same poor work everytime so many things are done bad and people get sucked in to the new look once in they realise its shit work and coz now they have paid tjey fucked

Hi Guys, Been following you on instagram for a while now and noticed this vid on KZread. We're moving to a new build home mid November/December and we wanted to know if you are familiar with a Builder called SB Homes? We're planning on using your services when we move!

@snagsure

Жыл бұрын

We are not familiar with that developer but we inspect every house type the same. Let us know when you would like to book

very hard to get real tradesmen this days, and site agents need to get out of there office and on site a lot lot more, why the cat is away the rats will play !!!!!!!!!!

Ffs. What standard is bad as in your opening statement you said. “ I’m not going to lie it’s looking pretty good” I would hate to see one that wasn’t looking pretty good. 230 issues?

How much did you charge. Thought you went overboard

As a plumber and bathroom installer, I see this garbage all too often. The quality of tiling and finish is appalling. May i ask how you entered this field of work, having been on the tools yourself?

I would never pay any one of them that built that house. You should have done a test in the shower cubical on waist and also on all the profiles. If I was snagging that house all of them would have had a big shake up. The person that is overseeing the build should be sacked

Shambolic. The standards of todays so called professionals is embarrassing. The site agents are clearly in need of an overdue sight test

@matthewingham7806

Жыл бұрын

None of them are tradesmen themselves this is what is happening to our industry

easiest job in the world

There's something so soulless about these generic new builds, no matter what you do you cant inject personality into them.

@snagsure

Жыл бұрын

If you head over to Instagram you will find many people who have created some unbelievable new-build internal finishes

The garden! That's completely unusable, if it's flooding like that it will consistently flood, you won't be able to grow grass or any plants on it. It looks like they've put all the building crap under the soil and it's not allowing water to drain. Will the company even do these little jobs?

Garbage in, Garbage out.

Romania would go bankrupt with you :)

Unfortunately typical of the large construction companies . I believe Redrow are worse than this now they are a bigger company than when they started out . Shameful , built by subbies , and the works are not checked and built to the lowest price hence the dreadful attention to detail. Wouldn’t have one .

With so many issues with the decorating in these new builds, makes you wonder who they are employing. Filling holes, sanding down rough surfaces, is something any good DIY painter knows how to do. Have these lazy people even got some kind of basic certification? And who is employed to oversee their work? Same with the carpentry and other trades.

I can never understand why anybody would want to buy a new house. The build quality these days is appalling.

Do you reckon it's coz they on price!? So bish bash bosh,or site agent and staffs fault!? They always in office on laptop 😂

Easiest thing in the world to find fault with somebody's work. I'd love to have a nosey round your house. Builders are knocking down prices, using cheaper materials and wanting a house built in half the time it should take. So not all things are bad workmanship, they are that the guy isn't getting paid enough to take the time to do a good job. Also I wouldn't have a new build given to me. The materials used won't last 15 year's. Cheap shit!.

It’s all about profit with these cowboys, and Anwyl are one of the worse the 10 year guarantee is a joke . Take a builder/ bricklayer with you when viewing any anwyl property!

I am sorry to say that 30 to 40 years ago British construction work was good. I am afraid today that is not tha case and it's a totaly embarrassing I am looking to build a house in Thailand and the quality of there new homes are far better then in this country. Absolutel discrase the building industry in this country

@monkstandinglast

Жыл бұрын

All these new fancy tools making their jobs easier to find shortcuts as opposed to back then when it was more labour intensive by hand which meant you eother had to pride in the job or be relentlessly ridiculed by everyone else lol those good old days lol square pegs and round holes today lol

So the moral of the story is don’t buy a new built

People in this country could learn a thing or two from the Japanese when it comes to pride in your work and good service. Shocking that these builders think this is okay.

@AllStarsOfComedy

5 ай бұрын

What about Fujitsu's role in the Post Office scandal

Never buy a new build, they are thrown up using the cheapest materials.

No pride taken in the workmanship on these new builds, just grab your money and run..... never would i buy one of these houses.

@snagsure

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, big change is needed

Hand built by Eastern European bodgers.