ᐅ Facade repaired. Cracks were filled with compound. Is this acceptable?

Hello,

Cracks on the facade were filled with a compound (the bulge, straight line, visible in the photos). Afterwards, the facade was painted up to the middle with the same color to save on scaffolding costs.

The painter says the color is identical (I trust him for now). He also mentioned that over time, due to weathering, the new paint will blend with the old (the house is 3 years old). Is it true that the transition will then not be visible?

Regarding the bulge, he says nothing can be done. Renewing the entire facade would be too expensive and not proportional.

Would you accept both of these? Does the color really even out?

Last year, I painted the facade of my house myself, with support from a painter. The painter said the most important thing is to work quickly and apply the paint wet-on-wet. That means not letting the paint dry anywhere before continuing to paint with wet paint.

There were four of us, and we worked side by side, section by section, and the result is excellent!

My opinion:
The color difference will remain.

Regards,
Specki

It balances out. And the warping—you get what you pay for. With a few more hours, it wouldn’t be there. What did you want? Price and value or 100% quality? You now have affordability.

I would rather paint it myself than leave it as it is.

Best regards,
Sabine

Nordlys schrieb:
It will even out. And the warping— you get what you pay for. With a few more hours of work, it wouldn’t be there. What did you expect? Price and value or 100% perfection? You got price and value.

Not exactly good value, everything goes through the developer. The developer and painter are no longer on good terms. We are just the ones suffering. How do you figure it will even out? Can you say how long something like that takes?

Three years, it has absorbed dirt from the air for three years, and the titanium dioxide pigments have been exposed to UV light for that entire time... if you can't tolerate that, you will have to repaint everything (with scaffolding). As a developer, I would also not pay more than necessary.