Surviving the Reno - A personal perspective by Tracy Trager.
I have renovated many homes as a house flipper, but most of those have been done where I buy the property and renovate quickly before I move in. Recently, however, I renovated my kitchen while living in the home, and hats off to my clients who do this.
I have a renewed respect for the inconvenience and disruption it causes.
I have two teenagers, two dogs, and two cats who I had to bear the disruption, and I had to try and manage and continue to provide meals. Unfortunately, I couldn’t put the meal providing on hold for the two weeks!
I made a makeshift kitchen area in the laundry, complete with fridge, kettle, and toaster. And then there was the air fryer and BBQ for the meals.
Then there is the dust. Admittedly, I removed the tiles in the floor which contributed majorly to the dust. I covered everything with drop sheets, which was fine, until I very eagerly uncovered everything two days into it and gave everything a good clean, thinking that was the end of the dusty stuff. I was wrong. Please keep those drop sheets on for the majority of the works.
So, there is pain, but it was short-lived and well worth it!