Hello forum friends,
We are quite happy with the Q2 plaster on the ground floor, so we only want to paint it.
However, I am concerned about our roller shutter boxes from the inside, as they were left out by the plasterer.
Our scope of work description states: Q2, ready for wallpapering.
Does this mean that the roller shutter boxes made of plastic are not plastered?
If we had known that...
How is it with you?
We are quite happy with the Q2 plaster on the ground floor, so we only want to paint it.
However, I am concerned about our roller shutter boxes from the inside, as they were left out by the plasterer.
Our scope of work description states: Q2, ready for wallpapering.
Does this mean that the roller shutter boxes made of plastic are not plastered?
If we had known that...
How is it with you?
Wastl schrieb:
In our case, it’s left unplastered (but painted white) because the opening facing downwards cannot be plastered either. That part is plastic. However, the transition is hardly noticeable since the wall’s white and the cover’s white are very similar.Thank you, Wastl, for your reply.
Personally, I wouldn’t like it that way. First, we plan to paint a light gray/beige, and second, it doesn’t look very stylish if you have otherwise paid attention to small details.
In our case, the boxes are also not plastered... and during construction, we wondered how they would look afterward, but if you plan to hang curtains, the problem disappears... you can no longer see the boxes... and depending on the room, we always have a different wall color rather than white walls... still, as mentioned, you don’t see anything anymore.
I just spoke with my drywall contractor.
He explained to me, after some questions (they definitely know more about these things than we do), that these plastic boxes cannot be plastered over at all. It simply doesn’t work.
He isn’t familiar with this type of box as a standard; it’s probably a cheaper version that cannot be reinforced.
Hello Mycraft, thanks for the encouragement – we’re not alone, yay!
But at first, I tend toward perfectionism; you become accustomed to things soon enough.
At the start, we also want to live without curtains or we simply won’t close them.
Dear Julia, that’s exactly what we plan to do. A few weeks ago, there was a thread where someone suggested filling the seams of fleece sheets so that nothing is visible: that’s how we thought about it as well — filling with the plaster that’s applied on top. I just need to review the procedure.
I’m just not fond of the idea of all that piecing together… it’s always a lot of work for a box like that.
He explained to me, after some questions (they definitely know more about these things than we do), that these plastic boxes cannot be plastered over at all. It simply doesn’t work.
He isn’t familiar with this type of box as a standard; it’s probably a cheaper version that cannot be reinforced.
Mycraft schrieb:
For us, the boxes aren’t plastered either... and when we were building, we also wondered how it would look afterward, but if you plan to hang curtains, the problem disappears... you can no longer see the boxes... and depending on the room, we have different wall colors and no white walls... but as I said, you can’t see them anymore
Hello Mycraft, thanks for the encouragement – we’re not alone, yay!
But at first, I tend toward perfectionism; you become accustomed to things soon enough.
At the start, we also want to live without curtains or we simply won’t close them.
Jaydee schrieb:
Hello Yvonne,
maybe you could attach painter’s fleece to the boxes and then paint over it?
Dear Julia, that’s exactly what we plan to do. A few weeks ago, there was a thread where someone suggested filling the seams of fleece sheets so that nothing is visible: that’s how we thought about it as well — filling with the plaster that’s applied on top. I just need to review the procedure.
I’m just not fond of the idea of all that piecing together… it’s always a lot of work for a box like that.