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Snagging list generator for builders and contractors
Build the list on the walk: location carries over, the trade is a tap, and the description is the only typing. At the end, one tidy handover document — printable, dated, signed by both sides. Free, no account, and the draft stays on your phone.
Buying a new-build home? You’re welcome to walk yours with it too — this page is just written for the builder handing the job over.
The job
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Your list
Walk the job, add the snags, and the finished list appears here — printable, yours to hand over. Your draft stays on this phone — nothing is sent to us.
The job. The job
Snagging every job?
In HubTrack a snag is a tracked item on the job — photo attached, trade assigned, chased until it is put right, and closed with a second pair of initials rather than a hopeful tick. The list this tool prints is the one-off version; the product is what happens to it next.
Where snagging actually sits
Snagging has no defined meaning under the standard forms of contract. JCT says plainly that snagging lists are not a contractual requirement under its SBC and DB contracts, and that they are often — sometimes inappropriately — produced around practical completion. Practical completion itself is certified by the contract administrator, and the formal list of small outstanding items at that stage is usually the architect’s or CA’s to issue, not anyone else’s.
This tool makes the other list — the contractor’s own. The walk done a week or two before the job is offered as finished: what your own trades must put right, cleared before the CA walks it, so the formal list is short or empty and the handover is clean. That list is informal by nature, which is exactly why a free, no-account page is the honest fit — and why the printed document states what it is rather than borrowing weight it does not have.
Dated and referenced beats remembered. Items on jobs can surface in disputes long after completion, and a numbered, dated list with a named recorder is a record; a text message and some photos are an argument. The document this tool prints carries the date raised, who walked it, and a reference on every line.
What makes a list a client takes seriously
The lists that get acted on share a shape, and it is the shape this document prints: one item per row, stated specifically enough to find and fix — “mastic missing to left of shower tray”, never “bathroom — various”. Sequential references on every line. Consistent location naming, because the location carries over between items instead of being retyped differently each time. A named trade against each item, picked from the trades you defined once. A title block and a date, so it reads as a document rather than a bare spreadsheet.
And the part most lists miss: the difference between completed and verified closed. The status column prints every item open with space to date it cleared, and the sign-off footer carries both parties — raised by you, received by the client — so the copy everyone holds is the one the clearing gets checked against.
The photo method — numbered, not uploaded
Photos are what make a snag record credible, and this tool stores none. The method is older than the apps: photograph each snag on your own phone as you log it, and the item number is the photo number. The printed list carries a photo reference column — filled in automatically with the item’s own number, editable if your numbering differs — and the line “photos referenced by item number, available on request”. Your camera roll is the album; the list is its index. Nothing touches our servers, because nothing needs to.
Sources, each checked 2026-08-07: Designing Buildings — Snagging; JCT — Practical Completion; RICS practice information — Defects and rectifications, 2nd edition (2024). Written around practice on jobs run under the standard UK forms of contract.
Questions people ask
Is a snagging list a contract document?
No. Snagging has no agreed meaning under the standard forms of contract — JCT's own guidance says such lists are not a contractual requirement under its SBC and DB contracts. Practical completion is certified by the contract administrator, and this list neither brings that forward nor holds it back. It is the contractor's own record of what to put right before offering the job as finished, and the printed document says so.
Who issues the snagging list?
The formal list of small outstanding items around practical completion usually comes from the architect or contract administrator — and industry guidance warns that lists are often issued by people with no authority under the contract to issue them. This tool's list is the other one: the contractor's own, walked before handover, so that the formal list is short or empty.
What about the rectification period?
That is the months after practical completion — six by default under JCT if nothing is stated, commonly set at twelve or twenty-four — in which defects that emerge are notified and made good. It is a separate, later mechanism, and it is not a licence to finish the job. This list is the before: the work you clear so the job can be offered as finished.
Where do the photos go?
Nowhere. Photograph each snag on your own phone as you log it — the item number is the photo number, and the printed list says photos are available on request. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is attached, and we never see a single picture.
Is my list stored anywhere?
Your draft stays on this phone — nothing is sent to us. It survives a phone call, a locked screen and a closed browser, and Start a new list clears it after asking. If you email yourself a copy, we send one email and keep nothing.
Can I use this instead of a snagging list template?
That is what it is — the template, filled in as you walk. The document carries what the recognised templates carry: sequential item references, location, one specific item per row, the trade responsible, photo references, a dated and named record, a status column with space to date each item cleared, and a sign-off footer for both parties. The difference is that nobody fills a spreadsheet in a corridor; this fills itself at walking pace.