Sliding door does not completely disappear into the wall

The usual pipe dream "The craftsman should have guessed what I wanted..."

No, you could also call that professional advice. If, because of that, you consider me one of those ridiculous dreamers, I don’t mind, especially regarding your usual tone here. I actually take "dreamer" as a compliment, thanks!

Even a layperson should be trusted to be able to express their wishes somewhat understandably. The sentence "I want the sliding door to disappear in the wall." can easily be formulated by my 7-year-old daughter and even written down without mistakes... so I also trust an adult to be able to do that.

You stick to your smug choice of words to portray the OP here as an obvious fool who can’t even hold a candle to your naturally gifted daughter (how could it be otherwise in your line?). Apparently, however, your daughter has long since outpaced you in some areas...

Accusing the carpenter here of lying. Well.

The carpenter said: "it can’t be done any other way," even though, as a carpenter, he surely knows it can be done differently. Let’s just call it a "deliberately told untruth," but at its core, he behaved unfairly towards his customer. To stick with my example, my dentist could have simply pulled some teeth because he doesn’t know any better or wants it that way, while patients of other dentists get root canals and keep their teeth. You might be happily toothless, why not, but there is another way. For me—and I may be odd in this—it’s not the mistake itself that’s the problem, but how the customer or a difficult situation, which could have been prevented, is handled. True, the customer might have been able to know, but the professional MUST know if he is one.

Perhaps he is a carpenter very set in his ways who truly can’t imagine another solution. Lies and fraud are accusations that should be approached very cautiously...

Correct, one must examine these terms, preferably by definition. You should really learn from your daughter about reading; there was no mention of "fraud" here, but you (from your pattern) like to arbitrarily attach words in other discussion areas to create a desired impression. Whether the label "lie" seems right to someone is up to each individual to decide or look up in a definition, but the OP as a customer was told an untruth, and I find that improper in interpersonal dealings. By the way, a hint from me: a liar is not necessarily a fraudster. I admire every builder and person who finds it amusing to get a deliberately untrue answer to a question; I don’t like that, but dreamers are probably strange.

And precisely that is the mistake, the door only disappears in the wall but not entirely. Probably the text should have included "flush" as well.

Oh, how great, there is no better way to expose a smart aleck. But at least would have written it correctly, that afterwards the door is poof completely "disappeared" into nowhere, and maybe even forever, who knows?

As you can see, opinions differ. I can understand you, but on the other hand, you shouldn’t be upset about it for too long, because something like that will surely be ignored eventually. I also had some extremely annoying spots during our current construction, some of which were even pointed out to me by other craftsmen, but once the whole thing eventually falls out of focus, it’s just a door or a passage that no longer really gets any attention in detail. Everyone has some things in their construction that could be called clumps. I would just wait for a longer period of time and then see if it still bothers me. Some of these things are no longer relevant to us today, even though they were annoying at first; today we enjoy our home as a whole.

I can well imagine that it will be difficult to make this door "disappear" because one might no longer be able to reach the "back" part without opening a finished wall. And it may also be the case that - even if the backside is easily accessible - the track cannot simply be adjusted to "longer" (too short) and would have to be completely redone. But before remaining dissatisfied and uncertain, a conversation with the carpenter would be best. I think so.

We have 2 fully retractable sliding doors from the carpenter. One (double-leaf) is basically always open, it actually looks more elegant when nothing protrudes. The other one is, like with you, a single-leaf door to the kitchen, which is slid closed several times a day. With that one, the fully retractable feature is rather annoying because the procedure "press the button and pull shut with the fold-out hook, then push the hook back in, then close the door completely" simply takes too long. We rather intentionally let the door stick out a bit or fiddle behind the door leaf in the niche to be able to close the door faster and not sprain our fingers on the hook (can happen if you don’t do it carefully). I would leave it as it is with you and be happy that the door can be closed quickly and that you can’t pinch your fingers as someone already wrote (that also tends to happen when things have to go quickly again). Attached is a photo of the door with the extended hook.

How funny. Just as I was about to reply to the thread about the wormholes, I still had the window with this door open and thought.. it might be the same parquet. You’re also one of those who doesn’t reply anymore and reports how they have decided, right?

Oh, a smart aleck. Sure, you can add more to it, but for something quickly typed while watching TV, I think my wording is quite okay. For a real requirement in the specification, you would think about it more thoroughly. Honestly, it wasn't worth it for me here; the principle should be made clear.

The principle is:
You get what you order. No more, because no one does more than they are paid for.

Actually quite normal. Sometimes I wonder what you all do for work. With this naivety, we wouldn't close a single profitable contract...