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New build snagging
A buyer picking up the keys to a new buildYou have a week of goodwill and a house full of small faults. Spotting them is easy. Producing something the site manager works through rather than files is the hard part.
You walk out with: A snagging list grouped room by room, every defect photographed and circled, in the order someone would walk the house.
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Snagging surveys, paid
A professional snagging inspectorThe inspection takes two hours. The write-up takes another two, in the evening, from a camera roll of photos you can no longer place.
You walk out with: The same report, finished before you leave the drive, carrying your name as the person who inspected it.
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Scope of works and quoting
A builder or contractor pricing a jobYou measure up on Tuesday and quote on Friday, from notes that made sense at the time. The jobs you forgot to write down come out of your margin.
You walk out with: A scope of works grouped by trade, which is the document you price from and the one the client signs off.
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Before and after, for the client
A maintenance contractor or handyman on a jobYou did the work, but the client was not there to see the state it was in first. Without the before, the after looks expensive.
You walk out with: What was found and what was done, photographed at each stage, in a report written for the client rather than for the office.
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Dilapidations and schedules of condition
A surveyor or tenant at the end of a commercial leaseA schedule of dilapidations lives or dies on evidence. Each breach needs a location, a description and a photograph tying it to a clause.
You walk out with: A photographed record of every item of disrepair, grouped by room and by trade, with your spoken description attached to each one.
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Inventories, check-in and check-out
A landlord or letting agentDeposit disputes are won by whoever has the dated photograph. Most check-ins are a phone camera roll and a memory.
You walk out with: A condition record per room with photographs, timestamped, that reads the same at check-out as it did at check-in.
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Void inspections and stock condition
A housing officer or property managerYou inspect the empty property, then retype it into the system. Twice the work, and the detail thins out every time it is copied.
You walk out with: One record per property, grouped by trade, so the works can be issued to the people who will actually do them.
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Handover and the defects liability period
A main contractor at practical completionDefects get reported by text and phone call across twelve months, and nobody can say at the end what was raised or what was closed.
You walk out with: A dated, photographed defect record per visit, so the position at the end of the period is written rather than remembered.
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Damp, mould and disrepair reports
A damp and mould surveyorThe photograph on its own proves nothing. What matters is what you said standing in front of it: where it is, what caused it, what has to happen.
You walk out with: Each affected area photographed and marked, with your own words as the finding, in a document a landlord or a court can read.
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Evidence that holds up later
Anyone evidencing a claim or a disputeSix months on, the argument is about what the property looked like on a specific day, and both sides have photographs with no context.
You walk out with: A dated report tying each photograph to a stated location and a spoken description, signed off in the name of the person who took it.