First move in - then plaster, paint, and install flooring

We had to do it in the attic because the drywallers badly let us down schedule-wise with the roof conversion. And let me tell you, what a mess. We had wisely not assembled the furniture but stored it in the garage. Only the bed was set up and a few bags with clothes, which we carefully covered with plastic during the day. Everything was still dusty afterwards. When we moved in, there was sometimes not even drywall on the walls up there, so we had to install the drywall, then fill, sand, prime, paint – in between electricians and heating technicians came (who couldn’t go up there earlier because of the drywallers’ delay). A dream.

And because two years ago, due to time pressure (we were afraid the furniture would rot in the damp garage), we only did it in one go, we will now mostly empty the attic again during this "summer vacation" and fill, sand, and paint again. Because the walls look really bad up there in some places. It’s going to be really lovely... hopefully, such a dust protection door will keep most of it from getting into the lower floors.

Long story short: It can be done, but it will be sh***.

Yes, she did. I also reworked 2 rooms in the attic, presumably up to Q3, because the result was quite...mixed. But there were already normal doors inside and a dust protection door in front of them. That’s fine. However, a very thin veil still settles in the hallway in front when you sand a lot. Fortunately, I only had to sand very little in the end. Still, it was better that we didn’t have any furniture/pictures/whatever standing in the upstairs hallway.

That is good to know, thanks.

I could still slap the drywallers, really. The trouble they can cause when they don't finish their work on time. But well, it is what it is.

Well, we also finished the 2 rooms after moving in due to time constraints. But only priming, wallpapering, and laying the floor were planned. That I had to do some additional filling was not foreseeable at first.

It's very important that you take off your shoes and clothes INSIDE the room. If you run back and forth across the house three times for a putty knife or tape measure, you'll spread the fine dust everywhere.

From what I saw at the neighbors, I wouldn't want it for anything. The dirt and dust that forms from unprimed screed alone is a disaster. They completely miscalculated the timing during interior construction because they also planned everything themselves or with friends/relatives. The large bathroom is still not finished today. And the rental apartment was terminated at the end of December...

Yes, that's all clear. We did a lot ourselves and otherwise most things went really well. This particular problem was really caused by external fault. But now we have to bear the consequences. I would never have done it voluntarily. And if it affected my entire apartment/house, I would rather move to a holiday apartment for 2 weeks again than put up with this hassle. In our case, "only" the attic was affected, and therefore only the master bedroom and an accessible toilet. Our attic is basically finished. Only the ceilings, in particular, really don't look nice and over time it really does bother us. So we are taking it on again and will sleep in the living room in the meantime. A friend who is a craftsman and my brother will help us, so I hope we will be done in 3-4 days. We definitely need a good dust protection door, because we left the attic door original and only refurbished it (1921), and it certainly doesn't keep much out.

Well, for us it was the new building and two of the three children's rooms. That was also okay. Now they are occupied and all the trouble is forgotten!

I had the ceiling done throughout the house as spray plaster filler with 1mm grain size. That was only possible before moving in, it was a huge mess