My next door neighbour booked to have her kitchen refurbished by a local man, in spite of my warnings. He an excellent workman, and an extremely nice man, but he can't say No to anyone, and always has far too much work to cope with.
Her unmade kitchen units sat in her living-room for several months before he finally got started, and he has, so far, been working on her very small kitchen, off and on, for two months! She has been managing for a lot of that time with a kettle and a microwave. after he removed her cooker. She hasn't helped matter by giving him lunch of very tasty sandwiches and cake whenever he is there, resulting in him sitting chatting over them for at least an hour!
The end, she informs me, is in sight. I would have killed him by now!