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Well, if you don't want to move and will have some construction works on your house, is any possibility to send her to your grandparents? If she had visited them before, it would be okay to send her to them for a couple of weeks. Also, you can contact a professional construction contractor and ensure that all work will be done without delays. When we were doing the same thing, I sent my wife and my autistic son to my parents for 1 week and scheduled the construction works with this landscaping and design company jscustomlandscaping.com, and all went completely fine. Hope it helps!

I have the same problem I'm thinking about making sound isolation in his kid's room.

Hello, ParentingAutism ! Well if you are planning to move to the new place I suggest you make the same room design, so your daughter doesn't feel many changes when you move to a new location. These actions helped me a lot when moving into a new house. My son was very nervous initially, but my husband made the same design inside the house and even changed the soffit and fascia outside the house, so when we moved, my son felt really good. If you think about making the same design, I can suggest a good designer that helped us a lot. Feel free to reach me via private messages.

Move to your mums house or a member of family she knows. I would find the noise and changes of seeing things being smashed like bricks of the building upsetting. It will be very difficult if she stays when you have building work being done. The noise and vibration of it will be terrible very unsettling glad it’s not happening to me.

The answer is no. You do not need planning permission for all extensions depending on the size, without planning permission you can build up to six metres or eight if your house is detached. ... Single storey extensions cannot extend beyond the rear wall of the original building by more than 8 metres.

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More excellent thoughts.  Would she like to do a video blog on the project, maybe? One blog a week or a month, depending on how long it's likely to take?

Really good thoughts.

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Thank you again Plastic. We have been watching some programs about houses being transformed. She loves some of the ideas in it. There will be another room but we aren't sure who will have it, her or her sister since they would both like it. We definitely love your ideas on how to include her. 

The only thing I can suggest is make it exciting for her - get her to guess what will be done on each day - get her a camera so she can take pictures of it all - maybe make a scrapbook.

Take her along when you're choosing tiles or fittings or paint - try to think of something special for her with the end product - involve her with it so she thinks she's having input.

Depending on how she would react, get her a hard hat & hi-viz so she can inspect and judge the builder's work.

Will she be moving room at the end?   If so, there's a whole load of input she can have - under your guidance.

There's also DIY-SOS on the tv to watch - houses being pulled apart and transformed - in 1/2 hour

Thanks Plastic. The extension we are having is basically a whole house one, taking apart and re-designing the Kitchen, conservatory, the bathroom and adding a bedroom and bathroom. We know a couple of the builders and she likes them. We've showed her pictures of what will be happening and what it will look like in the future. Unfortunately there isn't really a place she can go when this is happening apart from her bedroom. Any advice on how to keep her safe as she will experience many emotions and will want to see what is happening but it will be really loud downstairs with a dog and siblings. The last thing we want is for her to wander when this is all happening

A lot depends on the scope of works - whether it disrupts the whole house or if it's just an add-on which is something to watch from inside.

I'm building a 2-storey extension over the driveway - it takes one bedroom out of service but the door is closed to that and everything is happening from the outside.

You could get a Lego house model that you can build with her to get her used to the process of building walls, fitting windows and building a roof so it's in parallel with the real building - something she can see and control while you point out all the fascinating things that the builders are doing outside.

The weather is getting better so you could mix up some concrete to make something with or some mortar to stick some bricks together - make it fun.     You can also get her to sign hidden parts of the construction so future people will know she was there.      Make up a time capsule to go in the foundations and one to be hidden in the roof.

Whole-house destruction will be difficult for her - maybe get some building books out so you can compare the pictures in the book to what gets exposed by the builders.     She'll need a safe space within the chaos.

Pick up some different ear defenders for her - the noise can be very difficult to deal with.      If the builders are friendly, let here see what's going on close-up so she can feel part of it all and it's less out of control for her.