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It is shit living in a house while you've got builders in, you have my sympathy. I didn't mean to suggest that it's in any way your fault for not having been clear.
lemonade-
It was just about manageable before we took the living room out of use last week as that's the biggest room so there was plenty of space to chill out at the end of the day or for mini_com to smash about the place. Now it's also my office out of order, which means I'm working out of the spare room, which means we can't use the spare room to put ms_com's shit in to decorate her office. Mini_com's bedroom is out too, so even though she would likely have been sleeping in with us anyway, all her shit is either in our bedroom, the spare room (my temp office) or the dining room.
#1stworldproblems, I know. But I'm not a huge fan of paying the mortgage and council tax fees we are paying for less than half the house when it should have been resolved ages ago. Eating my dinner off my lap on a folding lawn chair next to boxes of sandpaper and assorted tools, is only manageable when I know it's going to be for a set amount of time.
stevo_com
They've been made well aware that their half finished jobs are having a significant impact on us and it needs done ASAP. Half the rooms in the house are unusable currently, most of our shit from the other rooms is crammed into the dining room, which is now serving at least triple duty as shed, storage unit, living room and dining room. Trying to entertain a 2 year old, on a rainy weekend in a room so full of boxes that all you have is an armchair and a folding garden chair for furniture, is not what we signed up for when buying this house, or when engaging this builder.
I've been promised a schedule of works today, if that doesn't materialise we're going out to find others. Even if it means it will take a couple of months, at least we know. For example, if we knew the living room wasn't going to be worked on for a couple of weeks, we'd clean it up and start re-using it. We thought it would be completed (the building works at least anyway) last week, so have totally decamped from it.