Actually, I should probably just let my two pictures speak for themselves. Right now I'm just sitting here laughing, but maybe I should be crying... :wow:
I'm not a carpenter, contractor, or concrete worker or... I'm just an ordinary Svensson who can't help but wonder if this has been done right in any way at all. Personally, I can't see it. Possibly that the support pole is correctly placed at the top. But the rest, oh my god... :banghead:
My thoughts:
Is there any professional pride when leaving a thumb-long splinter in the pole?
Why not wait to screw the pole in when you know it will have to be recast properly?
Why not ensure a longer distance between the casting and the bottom of the pillar? Won't rainwater get soaked up into the wood from underneath when it hits the casting?
Actually, I should probably just let my two pictures speak for themselves. Right now I'm just sitting and laughing, but maybe I should be crying... :wow:
I'm not a carpenter, contractor, or caster... I'm just an ordinary Svensson who can't help but wonder if this really has been done correctly in any way at all. Personally, I don't think it has. Possibly the support post is correctly placed at the top. But the rest, dear God... :banghead:
My thoughts:
Is there any professional pride when leaving a decimeter-long splinter in the post?
Why don't they wait to screw in the post when they know it needs to be recast or corrected?
Why don't they ensure there's a longer distance between the casting and the underside of the pillar? Rainwater will likely seep into the wood from below when it hits the casting?
Can more mistakes be made?
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1. No... If a splinter goes, you should at least try to glue it back on; if that doesn’t work, unfortunately, you’ll have to replace the post. The craftsman probably took a chance that nobody would notice.
2. It's okay to screw in the post and plumb it to get a reference point for where to dig for the footing. Alternatively, you could hang a plumb line to find the center. In any case, they’ve failed to center the footing.
It doesn't look very nice, but functionally it's ok.
It looks like you're going to build a landing area outside the door, then I guess both the plint and chipped post won't be visible anymore? If you're going to set tiles level with the plint, I would do the post's attachment completely differently, using another fitting.
How should it look when it's finished?
The post should be clad with some outer board to give it a larger dimension that harmonizes with the corner board seen on the right, and I would also paint it in the same color. It looks a bit "stick-like" in my opinion.
And as mentioned earlier, there should also be a step and a surface outside the door that will conceal the plinth and the lower part of the post.
The post looks crooked, but hopefully it's an optical illusion depending on how the photo was taken.
Looks like the post follows the panel pretty well. Point three I don't think you can say anything about, what did you want, 10cm?
Then everything is probably hidden by a staircase as someone said.
Seems like the post follows the panel quite well. Point three I don't think one can say anything about, what did you want, 10cm?
Then everything will be hidden by a staircase as someone said.
I think we've found the carpenter
But otherwise, I agree with Stefan. The damage will be hidden by the deck, the distance seems sufficient, and I think (hope) that the column will be painted/clad.
Certainly, it may not matter much if it is to be covered by a staircase. But it looks completely ridiculously crooked!!! We have a cover roof on our house where all four pillars for the cover roof were cast in connection with the slab. They ended up perfectly aligned (okay, we had a very conscientious guy responsible for the foundation). So I don't understand how one can even get it that crooked if they have access to a level and a measuring tape?
I can guess how the base has ended up crooked. The carpenter has measured from a distance where the post would be from the wall - shall we guess 1.4 m or something like that, the distance the post is at the top. Then he measured the same 1.4 m at the bottom - but forgot that the panel juts out several cm from the slab (clearly visible in the picture).
But it could also be intentional, just like MathiasS says.
Lovely to have a bunch of know-it-alls here....we don't know anything about what the plans look like or how it's supposed to look when it's finished....
Yes...but does he/they or we know what the final result will look like regarding all the details....none of the pillar or the plinth might be visible and for the purpose's sake, it probably holds....
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