Price increase - Our construction company wants 21.4% more

The walls always look slightly grayish

I can't confirm that. But I can already tell, there are more opponents than friends of textured wallpaper here.

Now a question about the wallpapers. The price seemed incredibly high to me. Wouldn't doing some of it yourself save a significant amount of money? They probably do the walls with level Q2 or Q3. Everything else could be done gradually by yourself or with friends and save quite a bit.

The walls are done with level Q2, according to the internet and the sampler that is not sufficient for “normal” wallpapers. Doing it yourself is not possible for health reasons. We are not capable of covering an entire two-story house including ceilings ourselves with textured wallpaper, plaster, or wallpaper. Once we see the Q2, we might be able to reassess the situation. Meanwhile, we accept textured wallpaper as a first solution and will redo room by room at a later date. Doing everything all at once and right from the start is not possible for us.

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I am seriously considering putting textured wallpaper in my new house again. Not because of the costs, but for the reasons mentioned above.

Because of your post, I was able to come to terms with textured wallpaper. :-) Unfortunately, our textured wallpaper is not as finely grained as I would like, and we were advised against that as well, but we can live with it. Maybe we will choose some kind of colored textured wallpaper.

... can, without constantly asking myself whether I’ve been ripped off.

I don’t ask myself that since the moment the decision was made. I live with the decision and try to see the advantages.

If the lawyer thinks it is not legal, you can at least work initially with a letter directed to the general contractor. It does not immediately turn into a huge legal battle.

I see it differently. If I fuel the conflict by involving a lawyer, then I do it to the end. I couldn’t handle involving a lawyer and constantly hoping it wouldn’t come to a court case. I am no longer so cool.

--> So that nothing gets lost again up to this point. The rest will follow. Now I can quote properly. ;-) I really believe it wasn’t my fault in my 3-hour post earlier. ;-)

With colored walls, it weighs even more heavily.

Alright, then it will stay white or a light cream tone. Or does cream-colored make it worse from your point of view?

I wish you loving people around you when you wake up and realize how brazenly you have been robbed. I personally know several fraudsters (from prison social work, I haven’t always made windows) who would be ashamed of what your "contract partner" has allowed themselves to do to you here.

I understand what you’re writing, but I really can’t manage the approach you suggested, really not. Having to fear every trip to the mailbox that there will be an unpleasant lawyer’s letter inside, expecting bad news with every phone call, waiting months or years to see if the house build happens or not—I can’t stand that anymore. I will not wake up but stand by the decision. It may be wrong, but it serves my mental and physical health.

I can’t confirm that. But I do notice there are more opponents than friends of textured wallpaper here.

You have won me as a friend of textured wallpaper with your post. :)

Thanks to your post, I was able to come to terms with textured wallpaper. :) Unfortunately, our textured wallpaper is not as fine-grained as I would like, we were also advised against it in that respect, but we can live with it. Maybe we'll take some colored textured wallpaper.

Roll plaster usually fits on Q2. Also a very nice alternative (a) you can do it yourself and b) it can be directly colored).

All right, then it stays white or a light cream tone. Or do you think cream-colored makes it worse?

Stop with white. Take real colors (white is not a color) so it becomes cozy at home. White for ceilings, window reveals, or as an exception. Also gladly strong colors for individual walls.

I would rather apply silicate paint on Q2 with a stiff brush. This could later also be easily upgraded to Q3 or wallpaper.

I will not wake up either, but stand by the decision. It may be wrong, but it serves my mental and physical health.

My sincere compliment for that. Not that I would say this or that is more right or that I would find it better, but you consciously choose the path that is appropriate FOR YOU. We found ourselves about a year ago and until now still in a different, though bad situation, in which we only became aware of our own misjudgments afterwards, and a lot of money went down the drain anyway. For us, it would also have been possible to continue with a report, lawsuit, etc., and the legal situation was clear for us; the offenses (including criminal offenses) of the other party are clearly provable. Nevertheless, we immediately tried to focus on the new and leave the old more and more behind us. When our house is hopefully finished soon, we will hopefully feel comfortable there despite this actually bad prior history as well as the currently slow and nerve- and money-draining construction progress. Then the old (now current) doesn’t matter to me, we want our peace! Tonight, despite the currently expanded shell, we will first buy ourselves a really big, beautiful picture for the high wall... the thoughts of it are nicer than those of the other things that I can no longer change anyway. There is no right or wrong here, you alone make your own assessment. I also believe that you were treated outrageously and downright deceitfully and that you could have chances of success in a dispute. But you have to want to endure that. If you carry this clarity within you, then be happy about it!