It took no more than a week for the noble heir to force the lab into shape, most of that was waiting on the shipment from home that had her good glassware in it. She did spend time enlisting the aid of the cadets to replace the damaged benches and have new cabinets made. With her calibrated level and carpenters square, the features turned out rather nicely. She also insisted on having some earth mages come over and make a proper area into the building for that and asked for a waste disposal site to be built.
It sounded like a lot but it was mostly going to see other people and ask them to help her out.
In the end she never did meet the girl in question from before and in a week her potions lab was half as good as the one at home. They would be knocking down a wall when the mid team started to turn the next-door classroom into a storage plus washroom for hazards waste, since this quarter had no lab classes.