As a new £73 million community healthcare facility in South Wales approached handover, a team of Plastic Surgeon’s cosmetic repair specialists were involved in carrying out the diverse range of snagging jobs that inevitably require to be done in the latter stages of a large construction project. We carried out over 9,000 individual repairs to nearly 1,400 items on the site, saving over 45 tonnes of damaged doors, windows, cills, facias, toilets, cupboards, worktops, flooring and tiles from the skip. Some of the more challenging repairs were to damaged basins. One example shown here, demonstrates how our Finishers skilfully managed to repair a badly chipped basin.

Bruce Meechan (B.Sc. Civ. Eng.), a leading technical journalist and Editor of MMC Magazine, talks to Hayley Gilmour, a project quantity surveyor for BAM, one of the UK’s most forward thinking building contractors about the issues of waste management and snagging for handover...

Already recognised as the foremost specialist in executing repairs and snagging for the construction industry, Plastic Surgeon is continuing to expand its range of services through the development of new techniques and the purchase of sophisticated new equipment...

Plastic Surgeon is continuing to help its clients to reduce their landfill bills, saving them £104,208 in landfill taxes alone (excluding VAT) last year by preventing 78,925 items from going to waste thanks to its ‘don’t skip it, fix it’ policy...

Building involves too many trades for contracts or refurbs to go smoothly, and the closer you get to completion, the more hectic it becomes, and the more likely that one trade will damage another’s work. And that tradesmen’s eyes will be increasingly dim when it comes to the chips, scuffs, scratches and knocks....