Help, does this look professionally wallpapered?

Hello,

we had our walls wallpapered by a painting company because we didn’t trust ourselves to do it. However, we are not satisfied with the final result at all; we could have definitely done it ourselves. We didn’t choose the cheapest, nor the most expensive, the offer was priced at 5.95 euros per m2, which is in the mid-range.

Already painted (by us):



Not yet painted:




Other defects:




And once too much wallpaper was cut off at the bottom, so that something would be missing above the baseboard. They just pasted wallpaper on afterwards.

Would you accept this? Is this professional?

I would be very grateful for your feedback!

Good evening,

did you order through a well-known portal? In any case with an official invoice? Whether you can make a complaint depends on that. Because I would not accept this; it looks like too little adhesive and no seam roller was used.

I only know HandwerkerSTUNDEN as a billing basis; why did you settle by square meters?

Rheinische Grüße

Good evening,

did you award the contract through a well-known portal? In any case with an official invoice? Whether you can make a claim depends on that.

Yes and no. Although the BGH reversed its previous ruling in 2013, consequential damages from defects can still potentially be asserted.

If illegal work causes damage to other property of the client that goes beyond the actual work, so-called consequential damages from defects, tort claims remain with the client.

An illegal worker who does not properly cover the roof does not have to make corrections in the future. However, they must pay damages if the valuable picture collection is damaged during the next summer thunderstorm due to the leaky roof.

In the case of faulty wallpapering, consequential damages from defects are naturally hard to imagine.

Best regards
Dirk Grafe

Hello Dirk,

Jein. The BGH did indeed make a turnaround in 2013 compared to the previous regulation,

Yes, I still have that saved in my folder. The Handelsblatt said the following about it:

However, in cases of undeclared work, there is no entitlement to rectification, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) decided and dismissed the house owner's lawsuit definitively on Thursday. This is because the contract between the two is legally invalid. The ruling mainly concerns the private sector of undeclared work, which according to experts makes up a significant part of the so-called shadow economy.

Edit: this is also interesting:


Undeclared work is not paid
The VII Civil Senate, which is responsible among others for construction contract law, has today ruled that a contractor who has knowingly violated § 1 Para. 2 No. 2 of the Law on the Combat of Undeclared Work* (Undeclared Work Act) cannot claim any payment for their work.

In 2010, the defendant commissioned the plaintiff to perform electrical installation work. A contract price of €13,800 including VAT was agreed upon, as well as an additional cash payment of €5,000 for which no invoice was to be issued. The plaintiff carried out the work; the defendant only paid the agreed amounts partially.

The Higher Regional Court dismissed the lawsuit. The VII Civil Senate confirmed the decision of the court of appeal.

Both the plaintiff and the defendant knowingly violated § 1 Para. 2 No. 2 of the Undeclared Work Act by agreeing that no invoice would be issued and no VAT paid for the cash payment of €5,000 agreed upon in addition to the contractually documented contract price. The entire contract for work is therefore void due to violation of a statutory prohibition, so that there is no contractual claim for the contract price (BGH, judgment of August 1, 2013 – VII ZR 6/13, NJW 2013, 3167).

The plaintiff is also not entitled to a claim for the defendant’s unjust enrichment, which consists in the fact that he has received the work performance. Although a contractor who has provided services under a void contract can basically demand the return of these services from the client, and if this is not possible, compensation, this does not apply pursuant to § 817 sentence 2 of the Building Code** if the contractor has violated a statutory prohibition by providing the service. This is the case here. In accordance with the objective of the Undeclared Work Act to prevent undeclared work, not only the contractual agreement of the parties violates a legal prohibition, but also the performance carried out in execution of this agreement.

The principles of good faith do not oppose the application of § 817 sentence 2 of the Building Code. The enforcement of the objectives pursued by the legislator with the Undeclared Work Act to effectively curb undeclared work requires strict application of this provision. In this respect, a different view is required than the one previously adopted by the Senate regarding claims for unjust enrichment following services by undeclared workers, which had to be assessed according to the old version of the Law on the Combat of Undeclared Work (BGH, judgment of May 31, 1990 – VII ZR 336/89, BGHZ 111, 308).

Source: Federal Court of Justice

Rhenish greetings

No, it didn't go through any portal. We obtained quotes from 3 master painters in the area. All 3 quotes were with price per square meter. We have not yet received the final invoice. The work was finished yesterday and we gave our feedback to the boss by phone today. He himself has not seen it yet. Tomorrow someone is coming by to paint one wall themselves and look at our painted wall. Then apparently someone else will come and give their feedback on it... I only know that if you can still see the individual strips that clearly afterwards, I want it redone or actually refuse to pay for it. I believe no seam roller was used. We also kept all the windows closed. Is it normal that right after wallpapering there are many bubbles in the textured wallpaper and that they disappear overnight? I only know that the strips are smoothed out.

Is it normal that right after wallpapering there are many bubbles in the textured wallpaper and that they then smooth out overnight?

Yes. That is not a problem - I’m not a master painter, but I have wallpapered enough walls in my life

Wait for the appointments before you pay. The master can’t be so blind as to not recognize the obvious defect. Also, I don’t know why it was painted over? Were the seams supposed to be basically painted over?

Rhenish greetings