ᐅ Poor painting work or faulty plastering?

Sandra84 schrieb:

This is not about a defect.
I just want to find out what happened and then have it corrected at my own expense.
I suspect that no final skim coat and sanding were done.
Now I wonder if the painter can still catch up on that.

If this is not about a defect, why does the title say “Poor work by…”?
What happened? You ordered Q2 and received it. You wanted a paint finish and that is what you got.
Improve it? So it is poor work after all...
Applying skim coat and sanding? This is not necessarily required for Q2.
If you are now unhappy with the result, you will have to invest around 10,000 (currency) and have the entire house reworked. The painter will surely be happy to do that.

KarstenausNRW schrieb:

Improve? So it really is poor workmanship after all…

It is also possible to want to improve proper work if one is not satisfied with the result.

Yes, it’s possible. At least any professional painter should still be able to manage that now. Except if they know their paint is really bad and that it can’t (or won’t) be sanded off, and nothing else will adhere to it. But yes, they wouldn’t do it for just a thousand.

Sandra84 schrieb:

The plaster is rated as Q2 and the painter just painted over it.

I have some doubts about the plaster evaluation because the quality of the photos isn’t very good. They are phone pictures, and the phone software itself alters the images quite a bit.
What I see doesn’t really match our own Q2 plaster. Even Q2 plaster has a fine texture! Here, it looks more like our exterior plaster finish, which is coarser.
Additionally, it seems the painter used too little paint.

As I mentioned before, what you see in these photos may not accurately reflect reality.

If you are already willing to pay for the correction and it’s not about warranty or something similar, I would probably just have an open conversation with the painter. What else can be done, what do you actually have in mind, and how can that be best achieved? Something like that.

ypg schrieb:

Q2 is also fine-grained! I think what we see here is rather our exterior render texture, which is coarser.

Exactly! What type of plaster did the applicator use? This looks like roughcast.

Furthermore, I see the “mistake” here with the painter. Even as a “professional,” they have a responsibility to inform the non-expert that you shouldn’t just paint over a surface like this. But who knows what kind of “professional” was involved. The original poster can probably provide more details—if they want to.