Like most tradesmen, I readily admit that snagging is the part of the job I least look forward to. Most of the time, the work has been done and we are looking forward to moving onto the next job, but 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 that can cause much disagreement between contractor and client. I will therefore do my best to explain snagging for both sides.
Firstly, what is snagging? According to my