Window, roller shutter, exterior plaster

Hello everyone,

I am a bit puzzled right now and need your help. Here is the situation:

The house was completed last year with windows, etc., except for the exterior plaster. By February, the interior finishing and moving in were planned. Now the exterior plaster is supposed to be done (actually already in October, but the plasterer never had time).

I have painted the external roller shutters in RAL color, electric. These have 3mm metal sheets on the left and right, then comes the inspection flap. The way my plasterer has now installed the plastering beads, I would no longer be able to access the roller shutter box without chipping away the plaster. Of course, I have stopped that for now.

My plasterer now says that according to the standard, the window must be plastered at least 5mm because the roller shutter rails are on it, and these must also be plastered 5mm. However, I do not want to break out the roller shutter rails from the plaster in case of problems, and the roller shutter box must remain accessible.

I have also found a reference that external roller shutters are only allowed to be installed after plastering. Unfortunately, I cannot find this anywhere in such a way that I can present it to the architect. Do you have anything on this?

My architect has no opinion once again... *sigh*

Is there a way to save the situation? Eight weeks without roller shutters would be really bad - the children need it dark to sleep. Or do the things have to be removed? Or something completely different?

Regards Roger

Hello Roger,

as annoying as this is now - if I were you, I would remove the roller shutters, let the plasterer do his work, and then put the roller shutters back on.

Anything else is, in my opinion, somehow a bit botched.

Leaving a gap (moisture problem?) or, in case of repair (which can happen occasionally), chipping off the plaster, should not really be the case in a new house...

Regards,

Dirk

Hello Dirk,

thanks for the feedback. If I demand this, then I must also have something up my sleeve to be able to demand it. Because I won’t be the one taking down the roller shutters and thus blaming myself for the warranty, but the window fitter will. And that brings us to the next problem. All roller shutter motors are jammed inside, so I would have to destroy the wallpaper in every window for dismantling and break a tile in each of the 2 bathrooms ..

*grmpf*

Regards
Roger

Hello Roger,

Did you contract the individual trades yourself?

Do you have a site manager (perhaps the architect)?

Who arranged for the roller shutters to be installed before the plaster?

Are you really sure about dismantling the motors? Such a part can also break down – it's hard for me to imagine that a replacement would only be possible with such collateral damage.

Our roller shutter motors are accessible from the outside and bottom (after dismantling a metal cover).

Regards,

Dirk

Hello Dirk,

hired through an architect - but choosing him was a mistake on my part .. *sigh*

Coordination of the trades: architect

I myself have not disassembled these parts, I can only speak from my last house - there I once had to replace one.

Currently, according to my wife, the status from the last meeting of the specialists on site (unfortunately without me): shortening the inspection flaps - but that can only go wrong, I will put a stop to that ..
This is called architect-supported collusion.

Roger

Hello Roger,

sorry, if the architect awards the contracts and coordinates the trades, then in my opinion he can take full responsibility for it himself...

I would absolutely not agree to any "makeshift solutions" as described above. Especially roller shutters react very sensitively to changes in construction – keyword wind sensitivity during storms – there, the whistling of the wind in the roller shutter housing is probably still a minor problem.

The architect also expects 100% correct payment from you, so I would also demand a 100% correct performance (without any collusion, so as not to use the word "botch").

Maybe it helps to remind the gentleman of his professional liability insurance...

Best regards,

Dirk