...we went through the same thing last year, when we built a rear extension on the house (which was undeveloped, we bought it and extended before moving in).
History in brief: both elderly, one single woman (attached), one couple. Female half of couple sulks hugely, male is absolutely fine. Other woman is slightly strange and did everything she could both times to stop us via party wall process, even going to our MP to try and stop the extension (which was a simple one storey 3m job, under permitted development).
Since the scaffolding went up on Monday, the previously friendly woman on the unattached side has blanked me (even when with dd, who has had her grandchildren over to play twice), and now dh - refusing to answer his 'hello, how are you' or even look at him
dh shrugs and says 'she is a sulker, she'll get over it' but I find it hard not to feel awful. We've bent over backwards to be polite, let them know we understand its a bit noisy/inconvenient, let them know start dates in advance, asked them to let us know if there's anything we can do to make it easier for them, etc etc.
Ugh
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Help! Just started loft conversion, and neighbours in major sulks...
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Elibean · 08/07/2011 17:25
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