Stay or Go?

Jonty37

Im having quite a lot of work done on the house and it starts in 2 weeks, Im debating if its worth moving out, or if its doable to live in a property whilst the builders are in? I thinking probably not, but would like any thoughts?
Thanks

ganderson1804

I am in the midst of some pretty serious renovations at the moments and can't be happier that we moved out. The whole house is in ruins, nothing is untouched with a layer of dust / saw cuttings / stew...

Horizon81

Can you trust the builders? Sadly my experience is a big fat no, so at least if you come home after work every day you can see if they're doing what you agreed or if they're just cutting corners while the cat is away.

PlutoinCapricorn

I stayed, to save expenses. I made myself scarce during the day, and had to do a bit of camping and roughing it but it was bearable for a few weeks.

Emmalooking2savemoney

Just stay! I'm sure it won't be too much of an inconvenience for a while!

PasturesNew

Stay. Just research a Plan B in case you need it. If you're not there they might see it as a license to take the p***, to start turning up late or leaving early, to start being annoying to the neighbours, or to skimp on something.

andrewf75

as others have said I would stay unless the builder is a friend or other close contact who you trust entirely.

Slinky

We stayed. I run a business working from home. It's amazing how quickly you get used to the sounds of crashing and banging. It was useful to be around so much as the builders could ask if they had any queries and I was able to head off problems before they became issues (we made some minor changes to positions of walls and doors which they forgot to take account of).

It depends how big a job it is though and which rooms you will lose. We ended up living in a bedroom, but still had a working kitchen and bathroom.

Lots of stuff went into storage, but after 5 months just before the end I recall standing in our soaking wet plastered lounge in late December with no heating and the wind howling through trying to get it dry, everywhere was filthy dirty and I just remember thinking what have we done!

Waterlily24

We bought a cheap mobile home and lived in that while the work was being done. No chance of living in the house though, the roof was completely removed.

A couple of houses ago we lived in the property while a major revamp was being done. The house wasn't mortgagable when we bought it, it was in a dire state lol.