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willWohnen19 May 2015 16:19Hello everyone,
We are currently having the interior plastered.
In the attic gable, we have two windows with curved tops and straight bottoms. The curved upper edge was done really well using a shaped plaster edge strip and looks good once plastered.
In the hallway, we have a round window with a rough opening diameter of 1 meter (3 feet). When I was there yesterday, the plaster edge for the first skim coat seemed to have already been installed – you can see that it often creates more "kinks" than a smooth curve, and at the bottom, where the two ends probably overlap, it is more straight than curved. This morning, they were working on the second coat of interior plaster, and the small kinks were less noticeable, but overall the reveal is not really round. The circle looks narrower at the bottom than at the top, and in my opinion, the distance between the interior plaster and the window frame is definitely not even.
It was so noisy and dusty because of the machine that I couldn’t make a final judgment. The plasterer also mentioned that they would still do something there – maybe I can take a photo later in the evening once the dust has settled.
Do I even have a chance to request corrections if needed? There are notorious “tolerances” after all... Can someone tell me more about this?
The round window is a real eye-catcher, and I find it quite unattractive if it’s done carelessly like this. In old houses, these reveals often look much more professional – the masonry was done better there as well. Here, the curve was only made using Styrofoam, but our building inspector didn’t criticize this. The gable windows were built with masonry! (Different masons were working on that part of the site...)
Could this be due to the Styrofoam approach? Or is it related to the plaster edge used?
If I understood better how this should be done properly, I could argue my case more effectively. Otherwise, the usual dismissive argument will be that it couldn’t have been done any other way...
If you have photos of interior reveals of round windows, I would really appreciate it. Then I can show my general contractor that others can do this better.
Thanks for your help
willWohnen
We are currently having the interior plastered.
In the attic gable, we have two windows with curved tops and straight bottoms. The curved upper edge was done really well using a shaped plaster edge strip and looks good once plastered.
In the hallway, we have a round window with a rough opening diameter of 1 meter (3 feet). When I was there yesterday, the plaster edge for the first skim coat seemed to have already been installed – you can see that it often creates more "kinks" than a smooth curve, and at the bottom, where the two ends probably overlap, it is more straight than curved. This morning, they were working on the second coat of interior plaster, and the small kinks were less noticeable, but overall the reveal is not really round. The circle looks narrower at the bottom than at the top, and in my opinion, the distance between the interior plaster and the window frame is definitely not even.
It was so noisy and dusty because of the machine that I couldn’t make a final judgment. The plasterer also mentioned that they would still do something there – maybe I can take a photo later in the evening once the dust has settled.
Do I even have a chance to request corrections if needed? There are notorious “tolerances” after all... Can someone tell me more about this?
The round window is a real eye-catcher, and I find it quite unattractive if it’s done carelessly like this. In old houses, these reveals often look much more professional – the masonry was done better there as well. Here, the curve was only made using Styrofoam, but our building inspector didn’t criticize this. The gable windows were built with masonry! (Different masons were working on that part of the site...)
Could this be due to the Styrofoam approach? Or is it related to the plaster edge used?
If I understood better how this should be done properly, I could argue my case more effectively. Otherwise, the usual dismissive argument will be that it couldn’t have been done any other way...
If you have photos of interior reveals of round windows, I would really appreciate it. Then I can show my general contractor that others can do this better.
Thanks for your help
willWohnen
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willWohnen19 May 2015 18:33Now with photo
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willWohnen19 May 2015 18:40Thank you! You confirm my impression that this is noticeably poor.
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Bauexperte19 May 2015 19:14You don’t need to ask about tolerances; this has to be redone!
Best regards, Bauexperte
Best regards, Bauexperte
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