Meggesinlu
2013-03-17 16:56:24
- #1
Hello everyone,
I have been searching all corners of the web for 2 days now and unfortunately haven’t really found a solution to my problem yet (or maybe I just don’t fully understand the context here and there).
We are building our new home with a prefabricated house company. The house is standing, the screed is laid, and now we are facing the painting/wallpapering work, which also includes the filling of the drywall boards. However, we have removed this trade from the purchase contract and are doing it ourselves. After a long back and forth, we have decided to have the filling work done by a plasterer. If you have never built a house before, you are a bit naïve at the beginning and think you can handle “a bit of filling” yourself. But after many experiences from friends and family, we finally decided to have these jobs done by a professional (which was certainly the best decision).
Last week a plasterer started filling and got quite upset that the gaps between the drywall boards at the transitions wall/ceiling or wall/wall are sometimes up to 2 cm wide. He offered us a price per square meter – but this does not include fixing the botched job of the prefabricated house company. Also, some boards have significant waves on the ceilings or sloping roofs.
I have ordered our construction manager to take a close look at the matter on-site the day after tomorrow (and he should). I want to prepare a bit for this appointment and have been searching for a long time for a tolerance limit for how big these joints are allowed to be. I assume he will come up with some guidelines that I unfortunately cannot keep up with given my knowledge (though I must say that I never had the feeling that he wanted to deceive us or hide anything). Our plasterer will also be on site on Tuesday, but he doesn’t know the exact tolerance dimensions either. He only knows that joints of this size are certainly not permissible and would refuse any warranty regarding crack formation if he himself has to rework these joints.
Can you help me? The only thing I found on the web are the dimensional tolerances in building construction according to DIN. However, I don’t know if this DIN guideline is what I need. Also, all the technical jargon confuses me – I work more with accounts and financial statements professionally :D
Many thanks in advance for your help!
I have been searching all corners of the web for 2 days now and unfortunately haven’t really found a solution to my problem yet (or maybe I just don’t fully understand the context here and there).
We are building our new home with a prefabricated house company. The house is standing, the screed is laid, and now we are facing the painting/wallpapering work, which also includes the filling of the drywall boards. However, we have removed this trade from the purchase contract and are doing it ourselves. After a long back and forth, we have decided to have the filling work done by a plasterer. If you have never built a house before, you are a bit naïve at the beginning and think you can handle “a bit of filling” yourself. But after many experiences from friends and family, we finally decided to have these jobs done by a professional (which was certainly the best decision).
Last week a plasterer started filling and got quite upset that the gaps between the drywall boards at the transitions wall/ceiling or wall/wall are sometimes up to 2 cm wide. He offered us a price per square meter – but this does not include fixing the botched job of the prefabricated house company. Also, some boards have significant waves on the ceilings or sloping roofs.
I have ordered our construction manager to take a close look at the matter on-site the day after tomorrow (and he should). I want to prepare a bit for this appointment and have been searching for a long time for a tolerance limit for how big these joints are allowed to be. I assume he will come up with some guidelines that I unfortunately cannot keep up with given my knowledge (though I must say that I never had the feeling that he wanted to deceive us or hide anything). Our plasterer will also be on site on Tuesday, but he doesn’t know the exact tolerance dimensions either. He only knows that joints of this size are certainly not permissible and would refuse any warranty regarding crack formation if he himself has to rework these joints.
Can you help me? The only thing I found on the web are the dimensional tolerances in building construction according to DIN. However, I don’t know if this DIN guideline is what I need. Also, all the technical jargon confuses me – I work more with accounts and financial statements professionally :D
Many thanks in advance for your help!