I just had my drywall installer on the line. He explained to me upon inquiry (they certainly know more about such things than we do) that these plastic boxes cannot be plastered over at all. It just doesn’t work. He also doesn’t know this type of box as common; rather, it is probably a cheap version that cannot be reinforced.
At our place, the boxes aren’t plastered either... and when we were building, we also wondered how it would look afterwards, but if you plan to hang curtains, the problem disappears... you don’t see the boxes anymore... and depending on the room, we always have a different color on the wall and not white walls... but as I said, you don’t see anything anymore
Hello Mycraft, thanks for the encouragement – we’re not the only ones, yay But at the beginning, I’m still leaning a bit towards perfectionism, the operational blindness comes soon enough We also want to live without curtains at the start or rather, the curtains here won’t even be drawn.
Hello Yvonne, can you maybe attach painter’s fleece to the boxes and then paint over it?
Dear Julia, that’s exactly what we are planning as well. Somewhere in the last weeks there was a thread in which someone suggested filling the seams of fleece sheets so that nothing is visible: that’s how we thought of doing it too... filling with the attached plaster. I just have to look up the procedure. I just don’t like the idea of all that patching... after all, it’s always a lot of work for such a box.