Is it common decency to inform neighbours who wfh about loud noises?

I think it's from 9am till 11pm I could be wrong people can make noise anything after or before is unreasonable. We know a couple that told all the families in the area they weren't allowed to make a noise outside after 6pm because their child was sleeping....... Perhaps the first few weeks after the birth I get it however children need to get used to noise.

I would let my neighbours know but you can’t control all noise. I live near an air base, they don’t let us know when a massive fighter will be going overhead. My old work (before WFH) also had building work going on for about 2 years and they were doing piling for about 6 months. There could be noise wherever you work, you just have to live with it.

Children need to learn to sleep through noise! Mine naps in nursery with kids playing around them.

It's work noise. No one around here tells anyone anything unless it's a long-term project. Within regular work hours, it's to be expected. I work from home, too. Yes, it's annoying sometimes, but that's what headphones are for.

To be fair to the neighbours they possibly didn't even know it would be happening today. So they could have given the OP warning and and then she would have gone to the office unnecessarily if the work couldn't be done due to weather etc.

Obviously you think you're nbu but I don't think it's fair to assume that all those disagreeing with you are lacking common decency.

I would have told you about the noisy works and tried to give you an idea of how long it would be going on. However most of my neighbours wouldn't.

To be fair to your neighbours they probably are not aware that you work from home or even think of nap time.

No, I wouldn't expect neighbours to tell me about any work they were getting done. Just as I wouldn't go round telling them. I would if I was doing long term work, eg a loft conversion or something but otherwise no. You working from home and having a toddler is neither here nor there. Other people shouldnt have to think about your toddlers nap during normal daytime works being done. As far as working from home goes thats not a consideration for them in a residential area really. It's a house not an office block and I say both of these as someone who works at home now and in the past and have had toddlers while having work done. I had my own toddlers when getting an extension done and they managed to nap.

If your neighbour had posted on here AIBU to arrange for some incredibly loud and disruptive work to be carried out on my boundary and not mention it to my neighbours they'd be getting a kicking. On AIBU the OP is nearly always U. You're getting a particularly hard time because you WFH and there is a weird hard core of posters here who really hate that.

If they're people you'd normally give the benefit of the doubt to, they may not have realised it was going to cause such a racket. But no, you're not being unreasonable to expect it to have been mentioned. Do they not speak to you?

I would tell my ndn in advance if I knew there was going to be that level of noise. DH works from home a few days a week and he would appreciate being told so he could plan to go in to the office on those days.

It wouldn't even occurr to me to warn my neighbors.
Building work, long term renovations absolutely. But a few hours of gardening? No, sorry that's just part of living near other people.

Nail on the head.

it's just common courtesy.

I think you would have got a different response if you hadn’t mentioned the WFH bit.

It is always considerate to let neighbours know if you are having noisy work done. They don’t deserve special treatment if they are WFH, though.

Regardless of WFH or kids or anything else, if you are planning something that generates noise the decent thing to do is let your neighbours know about it in advance. That's just basic manners and decency. Your neighbours have been very inconsiderate.

So it wouldn't have been possible even with a heads up?

Honestly I think you just need to accept that sometimes there's going to be lots of noise from your neighbours. If you want quiet you need to go to an office space.

OP you’re getting a hard time here! I think it’s good manners to inform your neighbours of any substantial work you’re having done, whether they wfh or not!

Not UK based but our neighbours always tell us when they're doing work, and vice versa. I think it's nice to forewarn people so if it will affect them, they can potentially put a plan in place

Would be nice but I wouldn't expect it personally. It's literally daytime when else do you want them to get it done? Night time?

I don't think the WFH comes into it, but it would be nice to be informed about loud work full stop, especially if it is going to last more than a couple of hours.

You can't really expect your neighbours to pre-book all their noise in with you. They're not responsible for you wfh.

So what? Go to the office.

My neighbours child shrieked and screamed and tantrumed under my window all summer as its a terrace.

That will be over in days.

I always inform my neighbours of ANY work I'm doing, if only for the work vans and their need to park directly outside my home. It is common courtesy.

Considering they are working on the boundary surely they would need your permission to go your side of the fence etc? Some people are just pig ignorant cfs.

EDIT - its not about WFH or kids napping, its about enjoyment of your home and decent neighbours.