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I’d thought that the blokes who turned up to saw down walls, tear out benches and cupboards, and remove all evidence of our old kitchen and laundry would be the noisiest of all the tradespeople involved in our epic house renovation. And they certainly were noisy.
There were moments when I thought the house might fall down.