Living through kitchen extension jn winter

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Hello! Please help. Devastatingly my parents with a 5 bed house up the road won't help us. Got the news tonight
I have 2 kids age 3 and 1 and a live in nanny
Oh and I work from home full time post lockdown
We are desperate to do an extension on our kitchen which is falling apart and tiny. Decided now or never before ds starts school next year

But where to live ?? Buolder quoted £2k to put a temp kitchen in the front room which seems extortionate. Will all the dust come upstairs ? What other costs etc from living here? Can we get extra double insulation between kitchen and stairs going up to our bedrooms? My ds is at nursery 3 hours in morning and my younger dd is home all day with nanny. We can try get nanny insured on our car to go out places but otherwise they are home so limited to his bedroom all day.... or her room. Is this insane ?!

IKEA sell some kind of temporary kitchen. Builder can just connect it. Also buy portable induction hob. Another idea is to rent or buy a caravan for the duration. Keep it on your drive.

The dust and mess gets everywhere!
I wouldn't do it over the winter if I we're in your shoes and make sure you get a timescale from the builder.

Thank you
We don't have a drive we live in a small terrace so can't even have a portaloo
They have to use downstairs loo...

Do we need running water for the Ikea sink ?

We have been living with the temporary kitchen in this photo since June. We requisitioned our playroom. We have a table with toaster, kettle and microwave combi oven. Our big fridge freezer is in the hall. Eating has been done on laps in living room and in the garden. Washing up is done in the neighbouring cloakroom which has a big sink. We fill up 5 litre bottles of water from the outside tap.

It has not been fun but has been doable (just) with 2 young children one of which is weaning. We should move into our new kitchen this weekend.

We do have a portaloo though, I really would not like builders sharing during covid. We have largely seperated ourselves off from them and they have their own drinks/toilet facilities.

Thank you so much this is so helpful

We are having a kitchen extension - building work is starting tomorrow! We bought our house in January and have been coping with a tiny kitchen with no oven since then so we are desperate to have it done. Our builder has told us that all the work will be outside for the first couple of months and the disruption, where they do the work in the existing kitchen/dining room, will only be for a few weeks at the end of the year. Not sure if that will be the case but we have to live through it, my son is at school and we have nowhere to go. We will just move our little table top cooker into the living room and make do until we can. Hope it goes well for you!

We are in the same boat as PP, but coming to an end now. Living in temporary kitchen -have been for months as lockdown delays. 2 small children and WFH. Our saving grace has been the fine weather this summer as lots of BBQ and escaping to the garden. Our builder rigged us up 2 different temporary kitchens over the build. It's doable but not fun.

We did this a few years ago with slightly older children and I really wouldn’t recommend it. We were having a two floor extension on the front and knocking walls back and changing the roof in the kitchen diner. Work started the first week in September when DD started school and it was due to be completed by the first weekend in December (which it was but only just). It seemed fun and exciting at first but then the dust gets absolutely everywhere, everything feels manky and you get sick up to the back teeth of builders and want it all done.