Restoration is bad for your health..

Its true that we're going through this phase of renovation because it will benefit us in the long run but boy is it a challenge!

Builders aside (they're the obvious health risk), there are many other nasty effects that living on a building site has, not least of which building dust!!

You breath it which, lets face it, can't be good for you whichever way you look at. You touch it, and it sucks all the moisture out of your skin and it gets everywhere, so even my hair feels like kindling!

Its not that I can't handle the disruption - I can even if it does make me a bit irritable at times. But I cannot wait for the day when we come home and it looks like something has been added to the house rather than taken away. We're at that awful stage where everything that the builders have to do involves ripping something down or breaking something up, so every day we come home to yet another layer of dust and yet another gaping hole in the ceiling/wall/floor. No matter how much you sweep, it's impossible to keep on top of and eventually you just resign yourself to another day in the dust.

Hopefully this week is the last of the seriously messy jobs, the builders start plastering and (hopefully) repairing the ceilings and then we're onto the cleaner stuff - installing the kitchen being the biggest job of all.

I'm holding on for the end of the week and hopefully we'll be in for some good luck for a change.

VP