New window lintels on the ground floor are too low.

All window lintels (this concerns two windows on a gable and 2 windows, one each on the right and left of the front door) on the ground floor are installed about 20 cm too low. The shell builder apparently took the lintel measurement from the base slab and did not account for the floor buildup (screed, underfloor heating, tiles).

So I would now like to have some pictures, because as I understand your explanations, the lower edges of 4 floor-to-ceiling window elements will disappear in the screed/underfloor heating/tiles. You don't mean that ... do you? Rhenish regards

Hi,

For us it is out of the question because there will be a time problem.

You can't approach it that way. With that attitude, you have to be satisfied with whatever they offer you. The change is certainly expensive, I can't estimate it reliably, but considering everything together, you are definitely in the five-figure range.

Is your completion date penalized? If not, you are sitting with your time pressure at a very short lever.

Your demand now actually has to be:
"Finish it, and if it takes two months, it just takes that long..."

If, of course, he knows that in 6 weeks you will be on the street without a roof over your head and he doesn't have to pay any penalties for late completion, it will be very difficult to enforce that now.

Good luck,

Andreas

So now I would like to have some pictures, because the way I understand your explanations, the bottom edges of 4 floor-to-ceiling window elements will disappear in the screed/underfloor heating/tiles. Surely you don't mean that....?

Rhenish greetings

Hello. It is not about floor-to-ceiling window elements, but about 4 completely normal windows, whose lintel was installed at the wrong height.

Hello. It is not about floor-to-ceiling window elements, but about 4 completely normal windows whose lintel was installed at the wrong height.

I think the best would be an excerpt from the floor plan that shows the windows including the planned parapet height and window height and how the heights have now been executed, otherwise no one can imagine it. But as others have said: If these are central windows, I would (if I have understood correctly) possibly not be satisfied with a window top edge below 195cm above finished floor level.

That means not only the fall but also the parapet height is too low, right?
Do you have consequential problems because of this, e.g. with the countertop in the kitchen?

Presumably, hardly any of the forum users will be able to answer the question about financial compensation, since many forum users are themselves home builders but not construction professionals.
Perhaps at least or could roughly estimate what such a renovation might cost.
For that, you should also mention again how far construction has progressed so far (plastering/painting work etc.).

That means not only the lintel but also the parapet height is too low, right?
Are you having any follow-up problems because of that, for example with the countertop in the kitchen?

Presumably, hardly any forum users will be able to answer your question about financial compensation, as many of the forum users are home builders themselves but not construction professionals.
Perhaps at least or could roughly estimate what such a renovation might cost.
However, you should mention again how far the construction has progressed (plastering/painting work, etc.)

Correctly identified. Lintel height is wrong, resulting in a parapet that is too low. The kitchen could still be changed; that's rather not a problem. Exterior facade, windows, electrical work, interior plastering in Q3 have already been completed.