Should I move out whilst building and kitchen done?

[Lilipot15]

Internal wall being knocked through, bifold doors being put in, kitchen being redone.
I have a 4 month old and a 20 month old. Toddler naps after lunch in her cot. Will sleep in car / pram but not as well.

I could take the kids to my parents for the duration. I think this is probably the most sensible thing and then come and go a bit (they are 3/4 hour away) to keep up activities where we live. Is this being over the top? I've never had this amount of stuff done. Slightly dreading it as you can tell, but very excited about the outcome!

I'd move out for the structural stuff especially as the back of the house will be open and water / power shut off for periods which may be inconvenient and just damn cold really. Angle grinding is stupidly noisy too.

I'd come back once the actual install starts to be on hand for questions and issues. And I'd make an extremely detailed plan of where you want electrical sockets, emergency power [for oven] off switches etc. My builder put ours lowish on the wall behind where the range oven, so it was absolutely fine for when you want to remove the oven etc for maintenance as you can just knock if off as someone very strong drags it out; but if you want to be able to switch something off at the mains so the kids can't fire up the oven, or washing machine, it's not so handy. [gah!]

Seal everything you can possibly seal.

www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense-hard-floor-protection-roll-25m-x-500mm/32544

This stuff is great. Its for hard floors and carpets but you can also hang it in sheets from the top of a doorway to the bottom [provided you don't want to get in there] and completely seal the room off from dust. We used to seal up the bedrooms when we left in the morning, run around with the hoover on return, open up the rooms and go to bed.

If it is fairly easy for you to go to your parents then go. I am surprised your builders are not strongly suggesting this ! Builders dust is horrid and it gets everywhere, the dust is very fine.

Thanks for the tip of the protection roll. There is actually a bit of a crisis which means that we can't really turn up to do what is essentially taking over my parents house. In-laws haven't offered and DH working so there would be real logistics about being there without a car for me. In reality I think I will book full days at nursery for the toddler and head out for days with the baby. Lots of visits to friends and Christmas shopping ought to be covered!

This thread has persuaded me to foist myself and DD on my parents for a few days. Am currently holed up at my Mum's whilst DH 'supervises' the chaos at home. Lilipot, sounds like you've got a good plan in place there. Full days at Nursery for the toddler will take the pressure off massively, definitely worth the expense.

We extended, took out the back wall of the house between October and Jan. We also had no central heating. Dd was 3 and ds 1. Both in nursery 3 days a week. We stayed. Kids loved it. Our builders were awesome though and left the washing machine connected every night and plumbed the dishwasher in over Christmas and managed to connect the stove too for that fortnight.

Tis thanks for giving me hope that it will be do-able!