Owning your own home

the building noise,

Yeah, it's all totally reasonable. And necessary. But I am finding myself hovering over the Zoom mute button waiting for the next angle grinder or mitre saw spin up.

the dust,

Again, understandable and these guys are actually being considerate in that regard. Although, I did have to apologise to Large US Tech Corp earlier when I had to duck out of the call to go and retrieve mini_com's bath toys out of the way of dust and debris as I had forgotten to do so earlier or just assumed they'd throw a sheet over the bath.

the BLARING radio,

Currently have "Play That Funky Music White Boy" turned up to 11. I think it's Heart, or Capital.

the constant anxiety

I think the above contribute to this. But there is some sort of dread that they are going to find something wrong that can't be fixed. Or if it can, it'll cost ya. And all that coming down to some failure of mine somehow. I know I didn't build the house or not maintain it for the last 30 years, but that's what I mean by inexplicable stress. The anxiety is telling me that it's my fault/responsibility. Did I chose to do things in the wrong order? Should I have somehow known that said issue was an issue? Have I bought a complete lemon and am I going to bankrupt my family?

Catastrophise? Moi?

the constant anxiety about them asking you to make ANOTHER decision

Worse is when they don't ask questions, they just bang away in the next room for five hours and you have no idea what they're up to, where they're at or what you're going to find.

(the only ones I've had round have been organised by the freeholder)