Doped Plaster

boogiemaster

I think they use a bonding coat for the first run, then a scratch coat and then a finishing coat for the smooth finish.
I know they use a floating trowel to get it really smooth; they shouldn’t have used cement in the plaster at all, that would make the walls really hard.

Plaster needs to breathe, it expands and contracts with the weather and never should have cement added, and that company sounds real cowboys.
My brother advised me to paint my walls in matt paint, he said the paint needs to breath, he said with silk it doesn’t breathe.
With matt it dries out under the paint quicker and with silk it stays wet longer.



All new builds have a ten year guarantee, if something if wrong? They have to come back and put it right.
That’s the law in the Uk on new builds properties, my dad who’s a stone mason told me that, If you have someone build a house for you? You are allowed to keep a certain percentage back incase faults appear in the first 12 months.
Get the company that built the houses to come back and fix the problem.

ben500

I would have thought being a new build with construction on-going your best port of call in the first instance would be the Clerk of works and threaten with NHBC and get the job done sharpish as I believe there are financial penalties involved for the contractor if your complaint is upheld so there is a clear incentive for him to kick glutimous maximus as his main priority is to avoid such penalties.

boogiemaster

All new houses are inspected and are given certificates, a lot of the time the inspector is shown one decent house that doesn’t have any faults?.
He passes all the houses thinking the rest are good build standard as the first one.
Faults won’t appear right away and the banks will keep so much money back so that they come and repair the faults.

Tell them the plastering isn’t acceptable and you want the whole house part house doing again? Tell the company if it isn’t rectified? You will go to the papers and TV and show them how there qualified building contactors build high quality houses.

nelly_2

There is grey and pink plaster finish, although ive not seen any grey in ages.

squidzin

Thanks for the advise everyone. I contacted the NHBC about the problem and they said to write a formal letter of complaint to the builders and see what they do about it. If they do nothing then the NHBC will step in and help me. So that is what I am doing! I have wrote a letter to the Managing Director of the Building Company explaining the exact problem and the steps we would like to be taken to put it right. I have given him 7 days for a written response. I'll just have to sit back and wait. I think the first mistake I made was not getting it put down in writing as soon as I noticed the problem. I have always just contacted the building company verbally about it.