What do the experts say?
I can only agree with Yilmaz’s opinion
The photos are awful! I would strongly advise staying away from this company.
(even if he probably meant that the construction shown in the photos is awful – but unfortunately the photos themselves are also quite awful, to a pretty similar degree, if you ask me).
With this tiny detail, you can practically do nothing. A serious answer is impossible.
Well, at least it makes it unnecessarily difficult. If it weren’t for the other readers, that alone would be reason enough for me not to respond.
With this tiny detail, you can practically do nothing. A serious answer is impossible.
For me, it is enough for a well-founded suspicion that the bricklayers are just as unrecommendable as the photographer.
Unfortunately, I don’t have more image material. It reassures me that based on the visible non-compliant measurements in the image parts, one cannot yet clearly say whether the company is excluded under any circumstances. That gives some hope. The architect has mostly worked with the company so far and is convinced of the quality.
It would already help if the photos were not turned into 70% bad photos. Your glimmer of hope is entirely a misunderstanding; avoid this company even more than the devil avoids holy water! As already noted, fantasy measurement planning often contributes significantly to such fake bricklayer jokes; thus, the architect can also be highly questionable. But it also happens that a mailbox general contractor changes its shell subcontractor and completely screws up (cf. the "Oli baut" videos or also here in the forum see R.Hotzenplotz).
With such botched work, a dismantling is possible too. It’s always the whole row, not just a few scattered stones.
With such thoroughly completed botchery, I certainly would not want to be the liability insurance carrier of the site manager. A dismantling would indeed be objectively highly warranted here, but legally completely disproportionate. This is a case for a damages lawsuit going through several instances and back. / eins80: who gave you the opportunity to see this reference?
Openings (windows and doors) are cut in almost every row anyway. Therefore, it’s daily bread and, with a laying plan, actually no problem.
What do you mean by laying plan there? – no, with proper planning even wall openings do not justify any cutting.
Does this happen more often nowadays and can still be considered normal, or does this definitely speak against the shell construction company?
Thanks to your terribly bad photo design botchery, it’s actually hard to say clearly, but unfortunately highly likely that the damage pattern here is substantially due to presumably not having engaged certified personnel as bricklayer performers. Normal in the sense of DIN standard it is absolutely not, but all the more normal in the sense of contemporary attitude toward clean working / normative force of the factual, meaning that norm-compliant masonry is on the way to rarity. But here it is still an ultra severe case.