Welds on the painted railing - assessment?

He says with the paint pen and in such a way that it is not visible. My wife has not been on site yet and therefore does not know where the damages are. We will easily be able to check whether the damages are no longer visible afterwards, only with careful inspection if you know where they were, or immediately. As written above, I have to give him the option to make improvements and I am also willing to believe him that he can do it properly. Whether there is still a visual defect afterwards, we will have to see. Based on his previous performance, I am unfortunately not particularly optimistic. Well, in two weeks, after his vacation, I will find out.

Touch-up paint pen? I don't think that's really the right way, but you can retouch damage in powder coatings. However, I wouldn't set my hopes too high on a touch-up paint pen at first.

The weld seams are just rough, but they will hold. So they are simply not perfect in terms of appearance.

I would not doubt the durability of the seams either, they just haven't been ground down. Visually it's not great and unground seams are more susceptible to corrosion because there are simply many little scratches that could potentially expose bare material. But if it is galvanized... probably not such a big deal.

We also have two unground grinding points on the railing (inside) because it would have been extremely difficult to get to them. But in this example, it's simply stinginess.

He is still convinced of his welds, [...] The paint damage will be handled as already discussed here. He says he will touch it up so that the damage is no longer visible

This is all nonsense. No matter whether with a pen or whatever, a paint surplus cannot be eliminated by applying more. There is no paint damage here at all. The client was too stingy to have the - technically in my opinion flawless! - welds ground and polished before the coating was applied. In the process, weld spatter would have also been removed, which instead were now galvanized and coated, in my opinion as a just punishment for the stinginess. In my opinion, this is the only initial cause of all visible coating thickness defects here, which also affect the quality of the galvanizing. Actually, the client’s name should be engraved on the resulting monument!

I don't know where you see paint chips here?! I see a torn edge in the second picture! That can't be repaired.

I don't know where you see paint chips here?! I see a torn edge in the second picture!

There are neither chips nor a torn edge, there is a coated adhesion.