Snagging/Closing out..

[shulgin1000]

My solicitors have informed me that the builders have been in touch - and are looking to close out the sale. However, they have a couple of weeks work to do yet! No fencing, landscaping, tarmacing done and plenty of obvious snag work to do inside.

I assume this is par for the course as regards how builders operate here. Theyre effectively preping people in advance or do they think that people would be stupid enough to pay up before everythings compete?

 

[daveco23]

My solicitors have informed me that the builders have been in touch - and are looking to close out the sale. However, they have a couple of weeks work to do yet! No fencing, landscaping, tarmacing done and plenty of obvious snag work to do inside.

I assume this is par for the course as regards how builders operate here. Theyre effectively preping people in advance or do they think that people would be stupid enough to pay up before everythings compete?

Have been through something similar in the last few months. Have received THREE letters saying house was ready to snag when it was nowhere near ready. Culminated in builder agreeing to knock 1k off price of house as it was costing me 300 euro every time my surveyor went down on a wasted visit. Surveyor said he had never seen anything like it.

Bottom line is if you do not think it is ready then instruct your solicitor to write to builder informing them of your concerns and that you will be passing to them the cost of the Surveyor visiting the site until the house is in an acceptable state to be snagged - plus any legal fees incurred by you in instructing your solicitor regarding wasted visits, etc.

The builders want their money asap - hang in there and keep chasing them until the job is done to your satisfaction.

 

[Jason_77]

We received the closure notice from our Builder about 6 weeks ago. On visiting the site for snagging we discovered it was nowhere near ready. We informed our solicitor, who in turn contacted the builders solicitor to let them know we were on the case.

After numberous visits to snag, resnag etc, everything was completed to our satisfaction and we closed the sale this week.
I would suggest just informing your solicitor of all outstanding jobs.
Whatever you do, don't panic about the closure notice. All will come good in the end for you.