black lung

For the last couple of weeks, the place downstairs has been getting renovated (it's been stripped to the bare walls), and there are people working down there until well into the evening every day, sawing, grinding, and hammering. Today I returned home to find a thin layer of black dust covering everything in my apartment... and filling the air too. From what I can figure out, the grinding downstairs (it's constant) has kicked this powdered plaster up through the floorboards of the second floor.

It's hard to breathe in here, the grinding is loud and constant, and now having to clean every surface in the apartment only adds insult to injury...