Who it’s for
For housebuilders
The difference between a block that hands over on time and one that does not is rarely the building work. It is whether anybody can say, per unit, exactly what is left.
Handover readiness
CertificateEvery applicable inspection complete and signed.
2 items still open against this unit.
Nothing outstanding.
All 6 penetrations verified and evidenced.
Set-up
The schedule of areas does the work
Import it once
Every flat created with its type, rooms, floor area and balcony area — so a location is a real place and a snag lands in a room that exists.
Or generate it
Identical units on repeating floors built in one step where there is no schedule to import.
Check it against the drawing
Totals compared to the schedule, so a transposed figure is caught now rather than at handover.
Through the block
One process, sixty-four times
Every unit answers for itself
Four gates calculated from the live registers. A unit is ready when they say it is, and the dashboard counts how many are clear to sign.
Handover readiness
CertificateEvery applicable inspection complete and signed.
2 items still open against this unit.
Nothing outstanding.
All 6 penetrations verified and evidenced.
The same register, unit by unit
Snags raised against the flat they are in, pinned on that flat’s own plan, and issued to the trade that owns them.
Snagging & defects register
+ New snagExcelPDF| Ref | Location | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SNG-041 | Flat 12 · Kitchen Moderate | Worktop join at the sink run is open and unsealed | Open |
| SNG-040 | Flat 12 · Hallway Minor | Architrave mitre open at the head of the door | In progress |
| SNG-039 | Level 02 · Corridor Significant | Emergency light not illuminating on test | Open |
| SNG-038 | Flat 09 · Bathroom Moderate | Silicone to bath edge cracked along the full run | Fixed |
| SNG-037 | Flat 09 · Bedroom 1 Minor | Skirting scribed short at the external corner | In progress |
| SNG-036 | Level 01 · Riser Moderate | Access panel fixings missing, two of four | Open |
- Snag unit by unit, pinned on that unit’s own floor plan
- Inspections run per work package and recorded against the units they cover
- A failed line escalates to a non-conformance rather than being discovered afterwards
- Fire stopping evidenced in the risers and ceilings before they are closed
- Each unit’s four gates calculated live — no unit is “probably ready”
- A handover certificate per unit, with what was outstanding written on it
The dashboard answers the only question the sales office actually asks: how many are clear to sign, and what is holding the rest up.
After occupation
The defects-liability list is the same list
Items that come back from the purchaser or the management company go against the same unit, with the same trades and the same two-stage close. You are not running a second, parallel job in a different spreadsheet with different location names.
FAQ
Questions housebuilders ask
We hand over in blocks of twenty. Does that work?
Yes. Handover is per unit, so a block is twenty units each with their own gates, checklist and certificate — and the dashboard shows how many are clear to sign.
Can we generate the units from a schedule?
Import the schedule of areas from Excel, CSV or PDF and every flat is created with its type, rooms, floor area and balcony area. Sixty-four flats in one go, or generate identical units where the schedule does not exist.
What about the defects that come back after occupation?
They go on the same register, against the same unit, with the same two-stage close — so the liability-period list is not a second parallel job.
Sixty-four flats are already loaded
The worked example is a real residential block at every stage of readiness — open it and see what your own would look like.