Soot and dust everywhere

The kitchen and 3rd bedroom ceilings have been taken down and soot and dust is everywhere. I can't believe that the workmen didn't close the doors to contain it in the two rooms they were working in. It is even in the rooms that had closed doors but only a thin layer. Thank God we did all of this at once and before moving in.

This is the underneath of the 3rd bedroom floor from the kitchen

This is the roof from the kitchen. There are about three or four old wasps nests and one of them is huge, about 30cm long and wide.

The kitchen with the opened up chimneybreast

The new bathroom covered in dust and soot

It scrubbed up well although probably not for long. Alan has cut the door to size and fitted it so it should keep most of the mess out, hopefully.
I think the damp proofing has been redone, as there was lots of drilling going on last week (according to our neighbour).

Alan is turning out to be quite a handyman. He has emptied the water tank that was pushing down on the beams in bedroom 3 so it should be fixed this week and a new ceiling put up.

The kitchen should also be re-plastered after a little more brickwork to the chimneybreast.

Just wanted to post one more picture. The bedroom fireplace is still not quite finished but nearly there.

Off to bed now. I'm not used to this hard work so I'm shattered.