HouseScan claims to be the snag solving service, which can complete the snagging process within minutes.
With HouseScan, consumers book an appointment and a qualified home-inspector will attend the home and provide a comprehensive report that covers everything from decorating defects to ill-fitting doors and windows, to electrical, heating and plumbing faults, even technical issues and standards – from top to bottom.
HouseScan inspectors use proprietary technology that has now been developed into a free to use mobile app called BuildScan, available to new build homebuyers as of this week.
BuildScan is the newly launched app that’s free to download and allows new build home buyers and builders to work together to compile a comprehensive snagging list in minutes. It ensures that all aspects of the build are taken into account, analysed and any issues recorded before multiple stakeholders within the snagging process, including the trades and the housebuilder, are invited to resolve the list together.
All involved, including the homebuyer, are able to upload photos and videos of a snag, rank them in priority order and can assign them a due date and user. Essentially building a comprehensive document of defects and a timeline of when and how they have been resolved.
Harry Yates is a young entrepreneur that despite his tender years (he’s just 25) is a new home, build-quality expert. Harry background comes from a family-run construction business and having also achieved a degree in Construction Management he then cut his teeth in the business world whilst working at Redrow, a large housebuilder.
One day, Harry was on site and a customer had hired a professional snagging company to inspect one of the houses they’d built. He realised that the process of inspecting the finish of a new build (snagging as the trades call it) was ‘clunky’, laborious and not particularly systemised.
Accordingly, Harry was inspired to solve the problem through technology with a vision to ‘help housebuilders to be better’.
“Just 5% of new properties built each year are subsequently professionally scanned for quality by an external party,” said Harry Yates, founder and CEO of HouseScan and BuildScan.
“And yet our work so far across over 2500 home inspections reveals that on average a newly constructed UK home has 150 faults as it is handed over to the buyer. Can you imagine any other product, a car, a TV or a mobile phone for instance, that could possibly be accepted with so many faults?
“Our mission is to help housebuilders to improve quality and we’re doing that via our technology-led scanning and inspection service for the consumer with HouseScan and via BuildScan and our new app technology that can be used by consumer, housebuilder, surveyor, multi-landlord or snagging firm alike.
“It’s snagging for the 21st century and it’s all about providing and promoting accountability and transparency in this growing sector.”
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