Floor plan planning shortly before submitting the building application

The construction manager has been on sick leave for what feels like the fifth time since construction began. The drywall installer doesn’t know when he’s supposed to install the gypsum board ceiling, the roofer says the Velux ceiling spotlights should only have been installed after the gypsum board ceiling was in place, but they are already installed now. One of the spotlights is positioned so that it is blocked by a rafter in the roof and can’t be channeled at all. He doesn’t know what to do. Pure chaos! And they’re getting paid a five-figure amount for such construction management. Just messed up!

At least the plasterers thoroughly reworked every plaster that the construction manager had approved as okay. So purely goodwill that everything was okay.

After the bumpy blower door test, the drywall installer, according to his own statement, has already had to dismantle the covings in the bathrooms for the third time because something still needed to be sealed or the whole thing had to be documented with photos.

The base coat plaster is currently underway. In 10 days, the finishing plaster is supposed to be applied outside. The scaffolding is supposed to be removed in three weeks.

The screed is being heated. However, various pipes in the underfloor heating circuit are cold. I don’t get it. But at the moment, I can’t ask anyone. The exposed pipes in the recessed screed of the showers also seem not to be carrying any water. Nevertheless, it’s moderately warm inside the place.

I feel for you.......I had to fire our site manager.....now we continue on our own......

Chin up!

Isn't the underfloor heating system filled and checked for leaks before the screed? Then the screed is applied and then the heating is turned on?

If done correctly, the underfloor heating is tested for tightness before the screed, with us this would be done by pressure. After the screed, it makes no sense, as you can no longer access it then.

As with the water pipes, a leak test is performed before the screed is installed. There is also a protocol for this.

As with the water pipes, a leak test is carried out before the screed is installed. There is also a protocol for this.

Possibly this was not done, and it seems a bit mocking to me to write like this here.

It is not the first time in this thread that other users write "Shouldn't have...", "It should have...", "It is self-evident..."

But on this construction site, not much is taken for granted, and the line between "well-intentioned" and "You are doing (everything) wrong" is very thin here.

I only feel sorry for the builder now and I wish him a good outcome despite everything... :-(