26 August 2020
I had my balcony renovated in early spring of 2019, so before the scaffolding went up and all the troubles began (new surface on the floor as the most urgent and important factor, plus two marble shelves). I am sorry I did not take photos then – since I was assured my balcony would not be affected – but the floor did NOT look like this. It had neither the grey/black nor the white stains:
The grey/black stains, which appeared during the work done in spring and summer 2019, are also on the wall. (The ones on the marble shelf I was able to carefully scrape off, but on the floor, and especially on the wall, they seem too integrated for that to work). Of course nobody has bothered to tell me how to get rid of them, although they must have seen them, given the number of times they have been on the balcony.
Other documentation – wondering how that wall will look like when they have finally finished (it should be said the wall above that marble shelf needed a coat of paint already before all this started, but the cracks and the holes were not there before).
Added 31 October:
I have just spent about an hour cleaning my balcony – again – it does not mean it is clean, just cleaner, and I can use it again – for more rubble, a load of sawdust, dried-up cement stains – and four cigarette butts. Throwing your cigarette butts onto someone else’s balcony is kind of like the ultimate insult, and they can’t have come from anywhere else. It might also explain where these burn-holes in the seat of one of the chairs came from.
