Things you don't realize about a renovation

[oh-eve]

... that you need valium to stay calm when the contractors all suck/show up late/drunk/don't show up/don't do good work and you have to keep firing and replacing them multiple times.

[nuts2uiam]

It took 3 1/2 weeks to install a 36 square foot back splash in my kitchen. It was hunting season, they arrived when they felt like it and an hour later are hungry, they took a 2 hour lunch and then wondered aloud why the job took so long. I simply can't make this stuff up.