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snagging

English translation: the process of checking a new building for minor faults that need to be rectified.

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English term or phrase:snagging
Selected answer:the process of checking a new building for minor faults that need to be rectified.
Entered by: Davor Ivic

14:22 May 11, 2014
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering
English term or phrase: snagging
"The subcontractor will comply with whatever is required under direction of the contractor to ensure the contractor can obtain relevant certificates, snagging and making good defects and has included it in his price".

This makes no sense to me whatsoever, what would snagging mean in this context, and what on Earth are good defects?!

Thanks for your help.
Davor Ivic
Croatia
Local time: 01:57
the process of checking a new building for minor faults that need to be rectified.
Explanation:
http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPort...
3.3.3 Snagging
Snagging (or the correction of faults) is often carried out after the building has been ‘completed’. The work forms part of a zero-rated building contract, provided you carried out the initial building work and the snagging forms part of that building contract.

snagging
the process of checking a new building for minor faults that need to be rectified.

http://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Certificate_of_maki...
Defects must be made good within a 'reasonable time', and at the contractor's cost. NB. It is the contractor's responsibility to identify and rectify defects, not the client's or the contract administrator's, so if they do bring defects to the contractor's notice, they should make clear that this is not a comprehensive list of all defects.

You can read it as "to make good the defects" or "to make good on the defects" which is simply to "rectify" any defects.

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Note added at 2 days8 hrs (2014-05-13 23:04:58 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you Davor.
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Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Local time: 18:57
Grading comment
Thx
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
3 +3the process of checking a new building for minor faults that need to be rectified.
Taña Dalglish
4remove
Dai.Xiaohu
4 -1resolution of outstanding issues
Mark Nathan


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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
resolution of outstanding issues


Explanation:
Usually there is a "snagging list".

The other is expression, "make good defects" consists of "to make good" (fix) + "defects".


http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Snagging

Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 01:57
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  B D Finch: Many potentially outstanding issues at the end of a construction contract would not come under the heading of "snagging", e.g. obtaining necessary certificates. I once found at handover that the block had been built 20 cm too close to the boundary!
3 hrs
  -> Yes, that sounds like more than a snag!
disagree  Chris Foster: This is too general, there can be many issues that need resolving which are complete ly separate from the "snagging". What is being referred to is the subcontractors own inspection of the work.
1 day 1 hr
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1 day 13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
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Explanation:
"The subcontractor will comply with whatever is required under direction of the contractor to ensure the contractor can obtain relevant certificates, snagging and making good defects and has included it in his price".

The subcontractor will comply with any requirement directed by the contract, in order to: i) ensure that the contractor can obtain relevant certificates; ii) ensure to snag (remove) defects; iii) ensure to repair defects; iv) ensure that all such actions/services have already been included in the subcontracting price.

FYI.


Dai.Xiaohu
China
Local time: 07:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Chinese
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
the process of checking a new building for minor faults that need to be rectified.


Explanation:
http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPort...
3.3.3 Snagging
Snagging (or the correction of faults) is often carried out after the building has been ‘completed’. The work forms part of a zero-rated building contract, provided you carried out the initial building work and the snagging forms part of that building contract.

snagging
the process of checking a new building for minor faults that need to be rectified.

http://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Certificate_of_maki...
Defects must be made good within a 'reasonable time', and at the contractor's cost. NB. It is the contractor's responsibility to identify and rectify defects, not the client's or the contract administrator's, so if they do bring defects to the contractor's notice, they should make clear that this is not a comprehensive list of all defects.

You can read it as "to make good the defects" or "to make good on the defects" which is simply to "rectify" any defects.

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Note added at 2 days8 hrs (2014-05-13 23:04:58 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you Davor.

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Local time: 18:57
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thx

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M
1 hr
  -> Thank you.
agree  B D Finch: Not only "minor" faults (though it should be), occasionally major faults may be detected. I have never seen "making good onthe defects".
2 hrs
  -> Thank you. Perhaps a bad example (... an interest in making good on the defects ... http://www.diavel-forum.com/index.php?/topic/5445-problems-w...
agree  Chris Foster: The HMRC site is looking at the VAT implications- making good defects after practical completion is not strictly speaking "snagging" it is the main contractor making good outstanding defects at practical completion -after the occupier has moved in.
1 day 6 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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