I Am Overwhelmed...

[liz_marcs]

My entire apartment (minus my office and bedroom) are covered in a layer of paint chips and plaster dust.

I can't blame the landlord, because, honestly, they were simply fixing problems that I asked them to fix. In a timely manner, too, at least.

But...OH MY GOD!

I have to scrub every inch of my bathroom, kitchen, and living room. And the stuff I didn't pack away (because I didn't think I'd have to) now has to be washed within an inch of its life. Because of plaster dust.

I...am overwhelmed. Big time.

It's taking everything I have not to curl into a little ball of sadness.

Comments

They offer gift certificates.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

http://www.maidpro.com/boston/

[velochicdunord.livejournal.com]

Any possibility of hiring cleaning help? It costs but they'll make it GO AWAY.

[4thdixiechick.livejournal.com]

Wah!
I'm sorry they didn't think to put down tarps before they got started...
If it's truly overhwelming, maybe you should hire a cleaning service? Yes, it may be expensive, but if it is stressing you out this much, it might be worth it.

Um, Happy Saturday anyway?

[spiralleds.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. At one time I worked in a building going through renovations. One of the things they needed to do was drill a hole in the cement floor of my office for a rather large pipe. I learned of this need when I came in in the morning to find two workers, a hole in my floor, and cement dust on every surface of my office - computer, papers plants, etc.

:: hands you a glass of wine::

[aadler]

Ah, yes, “unintended consequences”. Another person on my FList posted a comparable experience: when her landlord sent people in to repair water damage in her bathroom (from the overflow in someone else’s apartment), they repainted the entire bathroom in a yellow that makes her feel intensely queasy.

My sympathies.

[jgracio.livejournal.com]

Sorry.

[yanagi-wa.livejournal.com]

Ick! I feel for you, that's really hard to get off.

I'm feeling your pain especially, as we're putting in hard wood flooring soon and I'm really dreading the mess. *sigh*

I'd come over to help but it's a bit far. sorry.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Oh, memory lane.

We had to have a chimney relined once, and the SOBs did not seal the hearth before commencing. There was black, greasy soot everywhere on the main floor of the house--I'm convinced that one of my cats became deathly ill and died a few months later because his body couldn't deal with the creosote. It wrecked a printer, ruined two rooms and a stairway's worth of carpet, and even after the cleaning people went through we were still finding soot around the rims of ceiling fixtures and other impossible places.

Home repair is sometimes necessary and always traumatic and too many of those bozos just don't give a damn about prepping because hey, it's not their home.

{hands you virtual cup of tea} Take your stress vitamins and get out into the fresh air as much as you can!

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Were these people unfamiliar with the concept of drop cloths?