snagging list

English

Etymology

From snagging (“the practice of checking for problems during construction work”), ultimately from snag (“a problem; something that causes delay”).

Noun

snagging list (plural snagging lists)

1. (UK) The list of repairs and finish work required to complete a project, such as the construction of a building; a list of problems to correct.
   • 2004, Julian Bridgewater, Home Electrics, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, page 22:

     Let the electrician know at the outset that you are keeping a snagging list. Then, if you spot, for example, a number of crooked sockets, some badly fitted covers, fittings that should really have been better placed, pendant lights that are& obviously too low, a chipped switch or a light that doesn't always work you switch it on, you have a couple of choices.

   • 2008, Malcolm Taylor, Avoiding Claims in Building Design: Risk Management in Practice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 266:

     By this I mean, for example, that if the onus for preparing a snagging list lies with the contractor, he may only have to produce the list and demonstrate that he has cleared it, to demand the completion certificate.

   • 2014, David Chappell, The JCT Standard Building Contract 2011, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 132:

     The clerk of works seldom intends that to be the case and, even if that was the case, those intentions would be irrelevant. Merely complying with a clerk of work's snagging list can never take the place of compliance with the contract.

Synonyms

• punch list (US)

Translations

list of construction problems — see punch list