Building works.
NC as outing. Not looking for a solution here, just need to get it off my chest.
We have been having work done on our house for 6 months now. Extension & new kitchen. No sign of end date & we are in chaos.
Our kitchen is a building site which just consists of a hob, sink, & a small square of work surface. All appliances have been moved to a different part of the house, & food, as we have no kitchen cupboards anymore. The kitchen was opened up to the extension weeks ago, but the new doors & windows are not fitted, just boarded, so it’s freezing in there, at times as low as 8 degrees. There’s builders dust & mud everywhere, I clean it & the following day it’s back. It’s been like this for weeks now. Trying to prepare a meal is so difficult.
I’m finding having workmen in & around my house day in day out is now really getting me down, it’s such an invasion of privacy. I work from home 2 out of 5 days & that has been difficult due to noise & disruption.
So as not to drip feed- I never wanted the extension. New kitchen yes, but felt like our house was already big enough. DH went ahead & planned anyway, spent weeks on plans & got an architect round without my knowledge, planning not one but two extensions. In the end I compromised & agreed to the one. I guess that impacts the way I’m feeling now significantly.
Does anyone else find these situations stressful or am I just being mardy? I feel like it’s beginning to affect my mental heath. I don’t look forward to coming home after a day in the office any longer. I don’t look forward to the weekends when I would usually bake with my kids. Like I said there is no solution to this, I know how lucky I am to be getting a new kitchen, I just never thought it would be so disruptive. I just needed to have a moan.