Floor plan planning shortly before submitting the building application

; are you familiar with the permissible tolerances for windows?

Tolerances is the wrong word here: there are installation clearance spaces. When installing, you need to be able to handle without pinching your fingers, but you also don’t want to foam over Grand Canyons.

Therefore, the windows are preferably made slightly smaller than the openings, and ideally the windows are custom made when actual measurements can be taken during the shell construction. Simply put, in most formats manageable by one person, the elements are about 3 cm smaller than the opening. Practically, a 110 x 148 cm window in an opening of 113.5 x 151.

If you order the windows before the shell is completed, you chisel too narrow openings to their nominal size. Wider openings are foamed more if deviations are small and may also require cover strips; in the worst case, a reorder.

I don’t know tolerances in the sense of +- 2 cm or angles here of 89 and there 91°.

How does he want to bypass the threshold?

How does he want to bypass the threshold?

He has an idea that in the end it would be almost threshold-free. Since the area is covered, he sees few problems there. But unfortunately, I can't say more precisely. We have to wait for the report.

I just spoke with him again on the phone. He sticks to the view that in a house where the wall heights are raised, the front door is raised, and the client is 189 cm tall, one can possibly assume a planning error, that at this point the design was not raised analogous to the other partial aspects or at least the option was not pointed out. His suggestion was that a lawyer should take a look at it, as he also came to the opinion that I will not be happy with the current solution and would be annoyed by it for a lifetime.

Today the sanitary expert was here. He says the work was carried out exemplary. He only recommends the installation of a circulation line in the children's bathroom to have hot water quickly available there. Otherwise, he sees no problems with the executed cross-sections etc.

So apparently a trade that causes no problems.

Regarding the crooked exterior wall, I have received the following proposal from the general contractor:

"As discussed with you and Mr. XXX on site on Monday, the exterior wall on the ground floor (garden side; northeast view)

was not executed flush.

To make this wall flush again, an area of approximately 0.80 m² at the specified position (see attachment)

would need to be "peeled off"/removed by 1.5 cm from the exterior masonry.

This area will then be conventionally plastered on the outside and the alignment restored.

For this, we will narrow the exterior wall in this area by 1.5 cm, however, at this point there is a step in the masonry and

as a result, the insulation value there will not be reduced.

You are welcome to view this on site; we have stretched a string there that represents/illustrates this problem.

In this regard, I ask you for approval of these works.

To carry out the exterior plaster as soon as possible, it would be advantageous if we had your response by Monday."

Is it really that crooked?

I did not measure it.