Glad to hear that Fluffy is doing so well, but sorry to hear that you're having so much trouble with the remodeling. It sounds like you could do a better job than the "professionals" if you did the work yourself, if you were physically able.
My husband and I had a similar problem about 15 years ago -- we made the mistake of putting a piece of furniture against an outside wall and creating a nice little compartment for condensation in the winter when the wall got cold, and I don't know what kind of mold or mildew we ended up with, but it was pink and green and my husband was allergic to it, so we needed to replace a whole section of wall. My husband knew how to do it but shouldn't have physically gotten near it. Some guys from his church came over to help, but he had to stay in the room and tell them what to do, so he still ended up breaking out in a rash. But the difference is these guys didn't charge us anything because they weren't professional contractors, nor were they pretending to be. In fact, one of them told my husband that if he needed a project like that done in his own house, he wouldn't even attempt to do it himself -- he'd call in a professional to do it for him. At least we got it done reasonably well, my husband recovered, and we rearranged the furniture in the room so it wouldn't happen again.
Anyway, I hope you can find a way to get someone to do a decent job with the rest of your remodeling.
I understand that the latest consensus among the so-called experts is that lizards can dream, but they don't seem to think that snakes can. I googled it a while back because my little snake had come charging out of his hide all of a sudden all ready to strike at whatever for no apparent reason, and I'd wondered if he'd had a bad dream because he was usually pretty mellow, and had learned that my puttering around near his tank did not mean that something bad was going to happen to him. I suppose it's also possible that my movements had startled him out of a sound sleep -- it's hard to tell if a snake is asleep or awake because they don't have eyelids.
It seems like the more we learn, the more we realize that animals are smarter than we have been giving them credit for.
My husband and I had a similar problem about 15 years ago -- we made the mistake of putting a piece of furniture against an outside wall and creating a nice little compartment for condensation in the winter when the wall got cold, and I don't know what kind of mold or mildew we ended up with, but it was pink and green and my husband was allergic to it, so we needed to replace a whole section of wall. My husband knew how to do it but shouldn't have physically gotten near it. Some guys from his church came over to help, but he had to stay in the room and tell them what to do, so he still ended up breaking out in a rash. But the difference is these guys didn't charge us anything because they weren't professional contractors, nor were they pretending to be. In fact, one of them told my husband that if he needed a project like that done in his own house, he wouldn't even attempt to do it himself -- he'd call in a professional to do it for him. At least we got it done reasonably well, my husband recovered, and we rearranged the furniture in the room so it wouldn't happen again.
Anyway, I hope you can find a way to get someone to do a decent job with the rest of your remodeling.
I understand that the latest consensus among the so-called experts is that lizards can dream, but they don't seem to think that snakes can. I googled it a while back because my little snake had come charging out of his hide all of a sudden all ready to strike at whatever for no apparent reason, and I'd wondered if he'd had a bad dream because he was usually pretty mellow, and had learned that my puttering around near his tank did not mean that something bad was going to happen to him. I suppose it's also possible that my movements had startled him out of a sound sleep -- it's hard to tell if a snake is asleep or awake because they don't have eyelids.
It seems like the more we learn, the more we realize that animals are smarter than we have been giving them credit for.