Yy the extractor fan is really efficient . It has 3 different settings from breeze to jet taking off.
The 6 months of hideousness was mostly because our boiler had to be moved from the basement up next to the utility room. We had the system checked prior to the work and the boiler was condemned ( in spite of being about 4 years old) so we couldn't use it. We either had to get a new boiler installed for a couple of months and then another new one installed upstairs or manage without. 'Oh, we'll manage without' we said 'its nearly spring, how bad can it be?
Coldest March on record!
Then, just as flooring and main cabinetry installed , man came to connect the hob. Couldn't connect the job as there was a gas leak AND they couldn't trace it. They came very close to pulling up all the new floor through the kitchen and the hallway . Eventually took out some of the ceiling in my basement and got at the leak that way.
Those were just the highlights . I had bar stools lost in the Mediterranean for 3 months, workman who put hot kettle marks on my brand new dining table, a plumber who fell out with the builder and held my hot water to random , builders who let my dogs out on to the road etcetcetc....
Months of it.
The only people who were endlessly brilliant were the actual kitchen company. They are fab.