Botch on the interior staircase or do I have to accept it like this?

  • Erstellt am 2024-01-06 11:18:53

Benutzer123

2024-01-06 19:37:45
  • #1
You shouldn't pay a cent for that. Fingers crossed that it can still be salvaged.
 

11ant

2024-01-06 19:53:46
  • #2
Not at all for me, after any commendable completion of the project would have amazed me.
 

Berlinho2

2024-01-06 22:26:15
  • #3


Yes... oh, there were so many problems to solve. It basically continued on a large scale just like back at the original post. In this case, I don't really want to place a big blame on the general contractor or the construction manager or whoever. The artwork was actually built by the subcontractor.
Still, I would actually be interested to know if something like this is bad enough to refuse the acceptance of this item.
Is there a specific standard?
How do stair builders usually work, because apart from catalog pictures, we have never seen any "planning"?
Which points can I particularly highlight here as not "professionally done," or is this unfortunately all just a completely subjective "appearance"?

So far, I have only read that nobody wanted it in their own stairwell.
I would be grateful for something tangible; maybe I have also overlooked defects that a trained eye would immediately notice.

Thank you very much!
 

Berlinho2

2024-01-06 22:34:26
  • #4
What exactly do you mean by "planning"? What does the normal process look like here, because I think ours didn’t quite run according to the textbook.?
 

xMisterDx

2024-01-06 23:56:14
  • #5
On what basis is acceptance supposed to be refused here? There is no planning; this was left to the general contractor or the staircase builder, presumably the staircase master(?). If the customer does not give me any specifications, I design the HMI freestyle, as I think it fits. Certainly, a few minor issues need to be corrected. But you can’t reject a staircase worth 10,000 EUR and refuse to pay because of visual defects worth 500 EUR. That would be the limit. The customer uses the system productively and does not pay the last installment because 2 buttons are the wrong color and there is a spelling mistake in the manual...
 

11ant

2024-01-07 01:40:29
  • #6
I believe that rhetorical question was meant exactly like that: that the trained eye is not triggered by any initial suspicion of something that could be called planning. Why you call your (apparently rather a mailbox) general contractor a general contractor is beyond me: the difference between a general contractor and a general contractor is actually that with the latter you can seriously come with the request "a piece of house with everything, ready to move in" and already a proper planning is provided by them. Catalog pictures are never planning, and the stair builder works according to a detailed plan (which either comes from the architect/general contractor or from him). Besides, a stair builder who cares about his reputation even halfway would never leave the whole thing so unprotected to suffer the rest of the construction work. I am very undecided about what you have too much of: money, nerves, humor, or all? – Understanding or skill in choosing your dream builders certainly not. In this sense: thanks on behalf of all readers for the cautionary example.
 

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